The Myth of the Supreme Court
Factually! with Adam Conover
English - November 11, 2020 05:00 - 1 hour - 66.5 MB - ★★★★★ - 2K ratingsComedy business interview health leadership entrepreneurship finance entrepreneur fitness productivity marketing Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Author and professor Eric J. Segall joins Adam to explode the myth that the Supreme Court makes decisions by a dispassionate evaluation of the law. In reality, he argues, the Justices actually just “make shit up.” Adam and Eric dig into the real history of Brown vs. Board of Education, the ways "originalism" mirrors religion, and why Segall believes the Court should ultimately be weaker than it is.
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