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Fatally Unequal
Strict Scrutiny - October 25, 2021 09:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1.4K ratingsMelissa talks with Carol Anderson about her book, The Second: Race and Guns in a Fatally Unequal America. This event originally aired as a program by the Commonwealth Club of California back in July, and we're excited to bring it to Strict Scrutiny listeners ahead of Supreme Court arguments in N...
Watch This Space
Strict Scrutiny - October 22, 2021 22:24 - 14 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.4K ratingsA quick breakdown on what the Court did and didn’t do today (Friday, October 22) in the cases against Texas's S.B. 8, which prohibits abortion 6 week's after the pregnant person's last period.
Per My Last Email
Strict Scrutiny - October 18, 2021 09:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1.4K ratingsKate, Melissa, and Leah recap the last week of the October sitting and some developments in the S.B. 8 litigation.
Latte Liberal
Strict Scrutiny - October 11, 2021 09:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1.4K ratingsMelissa, Leah, and Kate recap the first week of the October sitting.
Troll World Tour
Strict Scrutiny - October 04, 2021 09:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1.4K ratingsDahlia Lithwick joins us for a preview of this monster term, and a breakdown of … that Alito speech.
Hashtag YOLO
Strict Scrutiny - September 27, 2021 09:00 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.4K ratingsRecorded in partnership with the 2021 Texas Tribune festival, Dahlia Lithwick joins us to discuss the U.S. Supreme Court’s busy summer and do a lightening-round preview of 2.5 cases on the docket for the Court’s upcoming term.
Sounds Legit
Strict Scrutiny - September 20, 2021 09:00 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.4K ratingsLeah is joined by Jeannie Suk Gersen and Deeva Shah to discuss an important case, Roe v. United States, about the procedures for addressing workplace misconduct in the federal courts.
Meager Sentences
Strict Scrutiny - September 13, 2021 09:00 - 53 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.4K ratingsKate and Leah are joined by Elizabeth Wydra and Aaron Reichlin-Melnick to discuss more of the Supreme Court's orders coming out of the shadow docket. First up is the Migrant Protection Protocol, also known as the "Remain in Mexico" program from the Trump Administration. Then it's a look at the C...
Messing with Texas
Strict Scrutiny - September 11, 2021 01:52 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.4K ratingsLeah, Melissa, and Kate reconvene for another emergency podcast on Texas SB8, which is now being challenged by the federal government. Y’all, they are messing with Texas!
Untitled Dating Show
Strict Scrutiny - September 06, 2021 09:00 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.4K ratingsIt’s law school advice time, Strict Scrutiny style! Melissa and Leah chat with Mark Moran, graduate of UVA Law and contestant on FBoy Island, for the first ever Strict Scrutiny x FBoy Island Crossover. What can law school teach you about reality TV, and reality TV teach you about law school? A l...
Flagrantly Unconstitutional
Strict Scrutiny - September 04, 2021 14:28 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.4K ratingsMelissa, Kate, & Leah get together again to discuss the Supreme Court’s decision in the Texas SB8 case, what is happening now in Texas, and what might happen still with the law.
Message Received
Strict Scrutiny - September 02, 2021 00:23 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.4K ratingsCommander Professor Steve Vladeck joins us for an emergency episode about SB8, the most restrictive abortion law that has been allowed to go into effect since Roe v. Wade.
Sexual Justice
Strict Scrutiny - August 30, 2021 09:00 - 54 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.4K ratingsKate and Leah talk with Alexandra Brodsky, founding co-director of Know Your IX and author of Sexual Justice: Supporting Victims, Ensuring Due Process, and Resisting the Conservative Backlash.
How Rights Went Wrong
Strict Scrutiny - August 23, 2021 09:00 - 54 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.4K ratingsKate and Leah talk with Jamal Greene about his new book, How Rights Went Wrong: Why Our Obsession with Rights is Tearing America Apart.
Open Wound
Strict Scrutiny - August 16, 2021 09:00 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.4K ratingsMelissa talks reparations with Katherine Franke, Columbia Law Professor and author of Repair: Redeeming the Promise of Abolition.
Superminority Status
Strict Scrutiny - August 09, 2021 09:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1.4K ratingsMelissa and Leah are joined by Easha Anand (MacArthur Justice Center) and Kate Levine (Cardozo University School of Law) to recap the big criminal law cases from last term.
Born Tired
Strict Scrutiny - August 02, 2021 09:00 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.4K ratingsIn collaboration with The Appellate Project, Leah, Kate, and Melissa talk to Debo Adegbile and Bruce Spiva about voting rights and diversity in the appellate bar.
Anti-Democratic Super Weapon
Strict Scrutiny - July 26, 2021 09:00 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.4K ratingsIt’s Supreme Court reform summer! On this episode, Leah talks to Professor Nikolas Bowie about his testimony to the Presidential commission on the Supreme Court and whether we have or should have a democracy.
Justice, Justice Thou Shalt Pursue
Strict Scrutiny - July 19, 2021 09:00 - 53 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.4K ratingsMelissa interviews Berkeley Law Professor Amanda Tyler about the book she co-wrote with the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Justice, Justice, Thou Shalt Pursue. The book includes Justice Ginsburg's favorite opinions she authored, along with stories of her life, family, and career. Professor Ty...
Roses & Thorns
Strict Scrutiny - July 12, 2021 09:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1.4K ratingsIt’s here … our term recap! We go over all the roses and thorns from OT2020, or at least as much as we have time for in this jam-packed episode.
Textually Challenged
Strict Scrutiny - July 05, 2021 09:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1.4K ratingsFor a further break down of the opinion that is definitely not necessary to enforce the Voting Rights Act (Brnovich v. DNC), Leah is joined by two voting rights experts, Professors Nick Stephanopoulos and Franita Tolson, who offer their thoughts on (among other things) what music Justice Alito w...
An Insult to History
Strict Scrutiny - July 01, 2021 23:50 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1.4K ratingsWith SCOTUS finishing in July, Leah recaps the end of the term (end of democracy?) cases, Brnovich and Americans for Prosperity, with law of democracy experts Wilfred Codrington and Rick Hasen.
Tired of These Fools
Strict Scrutiny - June 28, 2021 09:00 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.4K ratingsOn June 23rd, we joined the Ninth Judicial Circuit Historical Society, together with the Western District of Washington Federal Bar Association, for a “SCOTUS in FOCUS” event moderated by Cynthia Jones, the program chair of the Society.
Comrade Thomas
Strict Scrutiny - June 25, 2021 23:01 - 53 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.4K ratingsKate and Leah recap the big FRIDAY, FRIDAY at the Supreme Court -- two statutory interpretation cases (Confederated Tribes of the Chehalis Reservation and Hollyfrontier Cheyenne Refining Co), and a major standing case (TransUnion v. Ramirez).
Cheerleaders for Democracy
Strict Scrutiny - June 24, 2021 02:41 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.4K ratingsKate and Leah recap four opinions: Lange v. California; Mahanoy Area School District v. BL; Collins v. Yellen; and Cedar Point Nursery v. Hassid.
Love and Basketball
Strict Scrutiny - June 21, 2021 22:10 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.4K ratingsLeah and Melissa do a quick dash through Monday’s opinions in Arthrex, NCAA v. Alston, and Goldman v. Arkansas Teacher Retirement Systems and a quick note on Nestle v. Doe before allowing Leah time to work out some feelings on Justice Alito’s dissent in the ACA case.
Amuse Bouche
Strict Scrutiny - June 18, 2021 01:09 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.4K ratingsKate and Melissa recap two opinions, California v. Texas (the ACA case) and Fulton v. City of Philadelphia (Masterpiece Cakeshop redux). For the latter, Katherine Franke joins with historical context and insights.
State Courts Are Where It's At
Strict Scrutiny - June 15, 2021 10:00 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.4K ratingsLeah, Kate, and Melissa recap an important CVSG, the Court’s opinions (in Gary, Greer, and Terry), and a major Wisconsin Supreme Court case!
Presto!
Strict Scrutiny - June 11, 2021 13:10 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1.4K ratingsKate, Melissa, and Leah get together to discuss Justice Kagan’s approach to statutory interpretation. We got two opinions this week, Sanchez v. Mayorkas, another unanimous immigration case, and the big ACCA (Armed Career Criminal Act, not Affordable Care Act) opinion we’ve been waiting for-- Bor...
Fetishistically Textualist
Strict Scrutiny - June 04, 2021 17:56 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.4K ratingsLeah, Melissa, and Kate recap the last week of opinions (Van Buren v. United States, Garland v. Dai, and Cooley v. United States). They also discuss some developments on the shadow docket, whether Neil Gorsuch is getting some cold feet about the whole textualism thing, and the newest teacher in ...
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