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Justice ReDesigned Podcast
by Judge Steven Teske (Ret.)
Justice ReDesigned is a publication and podcast by Judge Steven Teske (Ret.), that explores justice and injustice wherever they arise — in politics, education, law enforcement, the courts, and beyond. We shine a light on the policies and practices that promote fairness and expose those that undermine it, challenging systems and ideas that stand in the way of a more just society. steventeske.substack.com
Episodes
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The Press Protested. DOJ Investigates.
When television networks stood together against CNN’s exclusion from the White House, the Justice Department responded with an antitrust investigation. Is this legitimate enforcement—or a warning about the cost of challenging presidential power? In this episode of Justice ReDesigned, retired…
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BANNING THE PRESS? THE FIRST AMENDMENT FIGHTS BACK
Can a president decide which news organizations get access to the government based on whether he likes their reporting? And when the White House excludes journalists it considers hostile, is that simply presidential discretion—or a First Amendment violation? In this episode of Justice ReDesigned,...
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Human Nature Never Read the Constitution
Author’s Note This essay is part of Justice ReDesigned: Conversations on Justice, a continuing series examining disparate impact, civil rights, human behavior, and the systems through which we attempt to deliver justice. The series began with my concern over a growing effort in American...
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Judge Said No. Trump Said Yes.
A federal judge ordered the White House to restore the press credentials of CNN, MS NOW, and Politico. Days later, CNN was blocked from joining President Trump’s trip aboard Air Force One—and the television press pool went dark again. In this episode, I trace the story from Trump’s original ban...
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Two Visions of Equality
What does equality actually require? That everyone be treated by the same rule? Or that everyone have a genuinely equal opportunity to compete? In this episode of Conversations on Justice, I explore the tension between those two ideas through the lens of disparate impact law—and through a...
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Trump Bans the Press, and the Cameras Go Dark
What happens when access to the White House depends on whether the President approves of the reporting? In this episode of Justice ReDesigned, we examine an extraordinary confrontation between the Trump administration and the American press—and the constitutional principles that govern it. After...
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When Neutrality Learned to Discriminate
There was a time in America when racial discrimination didn’t require an investigation. The sign told you. WHITES ONLY. The employment policy told you. Black workers could work here. White workers could work there. Certain jobs and opportunities were simply unavailable to Black Americans. The...
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When Opportunity Becomes a Preference
A Late-Breaking Conversation on Justice When does removing a barrier to opportunity become an unlawful preference? That question has suddenly moved from legal theory to an active national policy debate. The Trump administration has proposed a new Treasury/IRS rule that could threaten the federal...
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When Merit Becomes the Constitutional Problem
What if a law designed to protect merit is now being challenged in the name of restoring merit? That’s the puzzle at the center of this special Conversation on Justice. In our last episode, The Reality of the Numbers, I argued that statistics are not verdicts. A racial disparity does not...
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The Reality of the Numbers
Numbers can be absolutely accurate—and still fool the hell out of you. I know because it happened to me. Years ago, a doctoral student asked to study our juvenile detention reform initiative. I welcomed the research because I thought I already knew what she would find. School referrals were...
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Chapter 2: Good People. Broken Systems.
What happens when everyone in a system is trying to do the right thing—and the system still produces the wrong result? Shortly after I became a juvenile court judge in 1999, a thirteen-year-old boy was brought into my courtroom from detention. His wrists were handcuffed. His ankles were chained.…
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When Enforcement Stops Asking What Happens Next
Government can enforce the law—and still get the outcome wrong. In this episode of Justice ReDesigned, I examine what happens when immigration enforcement becomes so focused on arrests and deportations that it stops measuring the consequences left behind. The issue is especially troubling when...
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The Comfort of Colorblindness
What if we’ve been asking the wrong question about discrimination for more than fifty years? For decades, American civil rights law has recognized that discrimination does not always announce itself through racial slurs, malicious intent, or explicitly discriminatory rules. Sometimes a policy can...
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The Anatomy of an Insult: When Dissent Becomes a Diagnosis
“Trump Derangement Syndrome” is often used as a shortcut—a way to dismiss criticism of Donald Trump without answering the facts, the law, or the constitutional concern being raised. But what happens to a democracy when disagreement is treated as a psychological defect? When opposition becomes...
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The Measure – Part VII: The Journey Home
Every journey eventually reaches a place where the questions change. When I began The Measure, I thought I was writing about politics, constitutional government, and the role of Christian values in public life. Along the way, we explored authority, integrity, conscience, mercy, and the teachings…
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The Measure – Part VI: Render Unto Caesar
For more than two decades, Steven Teske wore a judge’s robe and exercised the authority entrusted to him by the Constitution. Over time, he discovered that while the law defined the boundaries of his authority, it could never determine the spirit in which that authority would be exercised. That...
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The Measure – Part V: When the Standard Is Tested
Throughout this series, we’ve explored the teachings of Christ as a measure of justice, integrity, and the responsible exercise of authority. But every moral tradition eventually reaches a moment when its highest ideals become difficult to live. This is that moment. Drawing upon more than two...
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The Measure – Part IV: The Wrong Question
What if the most important question isn’t about America at all? For much of this journey, I believed I was wrestling with a political question: Is America becoming a Christian nation? But after years on the bench—and months reflecting on Vice President J.D. Vance’s call to recover Christian...
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The Measure – Part III: Looking for Common Ground
What truly holds a free people together? Political philosopher Samuel Goldman asks whether America can recover a shared civic language capable of sustaining a diverse constitutional republic. Vice President J.D. Vance argues that America must recover Christian values. Both are searching for the...
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The Measure – Part II: The Measure
“The measure of any faith, philosophy, or moral tradition is not found in what it professes. It is found in the character it produces.” In the second installment of The Measure, I continue a journey that began with a simple question: Is America a Christian nation? But as I reflected on Vice...
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The Measure — Part I: The Wrong Question
For weeks, I thought I was asking whether America is a Christian nation. Then I realized I was asking the wrong question. In this opening episode of The Measure, I explain why a debate that began with Vice President J.D. Vance’s call to restore Christian values ultimately became a deeply personal...
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The Measure Before the Policy | Series Prologue
What began as a response to Vice President J.D. Vance's book *Communion* unexpectedly became something much more personal.I set out to examine Vance's argument that America has become divided because it has drifted away from its Christian roots. Along the way, I found myself asking a much deeper...
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Update: The Prediction Comes True
A federal judge has now put into the permanent judicial record many of the constitutional and professional concerns examined throughout The Teske Brief’s **Bar Card series**.I n this breaking update, Judge Steven Teske discusses a 56-page federal court opinion scrutinizing the settlement…
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The Illusion of Precedent
In this episode of Justice ReDesigned, we examine The Illusion of Precedent—a story about executive power, legal deception, congressional backlash, and the one institution political loyalty cannot fully control: the legal profession itself. The episode follows Todd Blanche’s attempt to defend an...
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ACT V: The Verdict
Every trial reaches a moment when the evidence has been presented. The witnesses have testified. The arguments have been made. And all that remains is the verdict. Act V is that moment. In the concluding chapter of the five-act adaptation of The Collapse of the DOJ and the Suicide of the Bar,...
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ACT IV: The Bar Card
Throughout the first three acts of The Collapse of the DOJ and the Suicide of the Bar, we examined constitutional conflict, institutional decline, and the quiet exodus of experienced government lawyers. But Act IV changes the focus. It is no longer about the Department of Justice. It is no longer...
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ACT 3: The Empty Chairs
Illustration created in collaboration with ChatGPT (OpenAI). The artwork is an original editorial illustration that symbolizes the constitutional, institutional, and ethical themes discussed in this essay. It is intended as expressive commentary rather than a depiction of actual events.…
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The Grinding Wheel of the Bar — 101 Judges Seek Todd Blanche’s Disbarment
“The wheels of justice grind slowly, but they grind exceedingly fine.” For months on The Teske Brief (my YouTube podacast at www.youtube.com/@judge teske), we have examined a quiet, desperate struggle behind the scenes of American power. We predicted that once the temporary shield of executive...
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ACT II:The Settlement That Forgot the Constitution
Author’s Note If you’ve already read my accompanying Justice ReDesigned essay, The Collapse of the DOJ and the Suicide of the Bar,you may notice that this podcast takes a different form. That’s intentional. The essay presents the complete legal and ethical argument as a traditional written...
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ACT I: Trump v. Trump
AUTHOR’S NOTE If you’ve already read my accompanying Justice ReDesigned essay, The Collapse of the DOJ and the Suicide of the Bar, you may notice that this podcast takes a different form. That’s intentional. The essay presents the complete legal and ethical argument as a traditional written...
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The Great Colorblind Illusion
In the concluding episode of In Defense of DEI, Steven Teske confronts one of the most seductive—and dangerous—ideas in today’s civil-rights debate: that “colorblindness” is the same thing as equality. Using a recent media controversy involving a student bullied for wearing a MAGA hat, Teske…
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Grace for the Oppressor? Part Two
In this episode of Justice ReDesigned, Steve Teske continues his examination of memory, accountability, and the moral inversion at the heart of the modern backlash against diversity, equity, inclusion, and historical truth. Part One asked whether enslavers and Confederate leaders deserve grace...
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Grace for the Oppressor?
In this episode of Justice ReDesigned, retired Judge Steve Teske continues the DEI series with a deeply personal and morally direct examination of what he calls one of the most revealing demands of the current backlash against “wokeness”: the demand for grace—not for the oppressed, but for the...
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When Power Claims Victimhood
In this episode of Justice ReDesigned, retired Judge Steve Teske examines a growing and dangerous inversion in America’s civil rights debate: the claim that civil rights laws, diversity efforts, and inclusion strategies are now forms of discrimination. Titled When Power Claims Victimhood, this...
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Episode 10: When the Acronym Retreats but the Architecture Remains
In this episode of Justice ReDesigned, Steve Teske examines what may be the most important development in the DEI debate so far: what happens when organizations stop talking about Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion—but continue doing the work. Using Goldman Sachs as a case study, Teske explores the...
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Beyond the Business Case — From Correlation to Institutional Architecture
In this episode of Justice ReDesigned, Steve Teske moves the DEI conversation beyond its most familiar—and most flawed—argument: that diversity increases profits. For years, proponents relied on studies showing correlations between diverse leadership and financial performance. Critics responded...
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Judge Geronda Carter on Reimagining Access and Accountability
We’re taking a short pause from the DEI series for a conversation that reflects the larger purpose of Justice ReDesigned: exploring how systems can be rebuilt to serve people better. In this episode, I interview Judge Geronda Carter of Georgia’s Clayton Judicial Circuit, a jurist whose work...
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Woke, Anti-Woke, and the Politics of Selective Outrage
In this episode of Justice ReDesigned, Steve Teske steps back from the legal and economic debates over DEI to examine the word driving much of the conflict: woke. Once a term meaning awareness of injustice, “woke” has evolved into a political weapon—used to dismiss conversations about race,...
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The Meritocracy Myth
Please consider subscribing to Justice ReDesigned. It is free when choosing the no-pay option. All articles and podcasts will be delivered directly to your email. Thank you! Host’s Note This podcast is part of an ongoing Justice ReDesigned series examining the legal, economic, and institutional...
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Episode 5: Inclusion Is a System, Not a Preference
Please consider subscribing to Justice ReDesigned. It is free when choosing the no-pay option. All articles and podcasts will be delivered directly to your email. Thank you! In this episode of Justice ReDesigned, Steve Teske moves beyond rhetoric and into architecture. As political debates swirl...
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Neutrality as Theater
In this episode of Justice ReDesigned, Steve Teske pulls back the curtain on the modern neutrality movement — and what it looks like when anti-DEI rhetoric runs out of legal arguments and starts policing fonts, museums, and gift shops. From Confederate school names to scrubbing historical…
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Episode 3: The Myth of Neutrality
In this episode of Justice ReDesigned, Judge Steven C. Teske dismantles one of the most seductive ideas in modern political discourse: neutrality. Colorblind policies are often marketed as fair and balanced. Teske argues they are neither. Drawing on Supreme Court precedent and institutional...
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Episode 2: In Defense of DEI
In Defense of DEI is not a plea for politeness. It is a rebuttal to distortion. In this episode of Justice ReDesigned, Judge Steven C. Teske dismantles the most common attacks on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion — that it lowers standards, divides institutions, or violates the law. Separating bad...
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Merit Without Memory — Part II
In Part II, the focus shifts from the lie of neutrality to the damage it causes. If forgetting history were harmless, the evidence would be neutral. It isn’t. This episode traces how “merit without memory” produces real-world consequences—declining African American enrollment at elite…
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Merit Without Memory — Part I
What happens when institutions claim to measure “merit” while pretending history never happened? In Part I of Merit Without Memory, Steven Teske dismantles the comforting fiction that neutrality is the same as fairness. Following the Supreme Court’s decision in Students for Fair Admissions v....
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Justice Denied by Design
In this four-part podcast series, Justice ReDesigned sits down with nationally acclaimed diversity trainer and justice reform advocate Pastor Edward L. Palmer Sr.—a powerful voice in the fight against racial and ethnic disparities in America’s juvenile justice and child welfare systems.We explore...
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Justice Denied by Design
In this four-part podcast series, Justice ReDesigned sits down with nationally acclaimed diversity trainer and justice reform advocate Pastor Edward L. Palmer Sr.—a powerful voice in the fight against racial and ethnic disparities in America’s juvenile justice and child welfare systems.We explore...
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Justice Denied by Design
In this second installment of “A Conversation with Pastor Edward Palmer on Implicit Bias, DEI Backlash, and the Struggle for True Equity,” we examine the disturbing trend sweeping across public institutions: the suppression of DEI language and initiatives under the guise of neutrality. Pastor...
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Justice Denied by Design
In this four-part podcast series, Justice ReDesigned sits down with nationally acclaimed diversity trainer and justice reform advocate Pastor Edward L. Palmer Sr.—a powerful voice in the fight against racial and ethnic disparities in America’s juvenile justice and child welfare systems. With...
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Academic Freedom Isn’t Liberal or Conservative — It’s Structural
In this episode of Justice ReDesigned, I explore a question that sits at the center of today’s higher-education debates—and is too often reduced to partisan slogans: Is academic freedom a liberal value, a conservative value, or something else entirely? I argue that academic freedom is structural,...
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Justice ReDesigned is a publication and podcast by Judge Steven Teske (Ret.), that explores justice and injustice wherever they arise — in politics, education, law enforcement, the courts, and beyond. We shine a light on the policies and practices that promote fairness and expose those that undermine it, challenging systems and ideas that stand in the way of a more just society.
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