Supreme Leap Forward

Episodes

1. 16

   Episode 16 - Student Rights in a Walkout (ft. Rachel Castignoli)

   Wherein we are joined by Rachel Castignoli for our first episode of season 2 to discuss student rights and first amendment protections for political speech and expression, particularly as it relates to the planned school walkouts organized in effort to protest the complete inaction of lawmakers…

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   Feb 27, 2018

   1h 03m
2. 15

   Episode 15 - Judge Posner and Sympathy for the Pro Se (ft. John Friend)

   Wherein we are joined by John Friend, class action and civil rights attorney in Lousiville, KY to discuss updates to the Texas redistricting case and the Muslim travel ban order pending before the Supreme Court. We also look back at the career of the retiring Judge Posner out of the 7th Circuit…

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   Sep 20, 2017

   1h 21m
3. 14

   Episode 14 - Da DSA Cop (ft. Sam Natale & Ramsin Canon)

   Wherein we are joined by attorneys Sam Natale & Ramsin Canon to discuss Trump's pardon of Joe Arpaio and the legal questions concerning the limitations of said power, the possibilities of litigation arising from disputes within private organizations related to Danny Fetonte and the Democratic...

   Aug 28, 2017

   1h 00m
4. 13

   Episode 13 - Obergefell and an Unrelated Search for Satan (ft. Joe Dunman)

   Wherein we are joined by Joe Dunman, formerly the attorney for the Kentucky plaintiff in Obergefell v. Hodges, the landmark Supreme Court marriage equality case. We discussed the constitutionality of the Irsael Anti-Boycott Act, BDS, the Heightened Scrutiny podcast episode on Marsh v Chambers,...

   Aug 7, 2017

   1h 13m
5. 12

   Episode 12 - Game Of Owns and Feudal Law (ft. @VoxProletarii)

   Wherein we are joined by our good friend @VoxProletarii, a scholar on feudal jurisprudence, to discuss the origins of law in feudalism, Marx's concept of base and superstructure, the codification of law, the vacuousness of originalism, medieval crime and punishment, and I think we even mentioned...

   Jul 18, 2017

   1h 05m
6. 11

   Episode 11 - An Afternoon with the DSA (minisode)

   Wherein Steven joins the DSA for a talk on sanctuary cities, immigration law, and movement lawyering. We have a brief episode this week, which gives you extra time to check out our new and rather bare-bones Patreon. We're still working out how best to utilize the thing, but we wanted to give…

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   Jul 2, 2017

   30m
7. 10

   Episode 10 - Bankruptcy and a Women's Economy (ft. Emma Caterine)

   Wherein we are joined by Emma Caterine, 2L at CUNY School of Law, to discuss bankruptcy and gender discrimination in her article "A Fresh Start for a Women's Economy," as well as Kurt Eichenwald's hentai collection, and more on the experience of navigating law school while Marxist....

   Jun 21, 2017

   1h 13m
8. 9

   Episode 09 - No Quarter For Fascists (ft. Alexander Reid Ross)

   Wherein we are joined by professor Alexander Reid Ross from Portland State University and author of "Against the Fascist Creep", to discuss the murders and protests in Portland, OR, free speech jurisprudence, Eugene Debs, and Samuel Farber's article "A Socialist Approach to Free Speech" for...

   Jun 4, 2017

   56m
9. 8

   Episode 08 - Voting For Treason (ft. Jesús Joslin)

   Wherein we are joined by Jesús Joslin to discuss his article (linked below) on Shelby County and the Voting Rights Act, impeaching Trump, treason, Texas SB5 and voter ID laws, the recent Supreme Court decision in Cooper v. Harris on racial/partisan gerrymandering, and the ways Clarence Thomas can...

   May 25, 2017

   59m
10. 7

    Episode 07 - Immigration and Sanctuary Cities (ft. My Le)

    Wherein we are accompanied by CUNY law student and immigrant rights activist My Le to discuss sanctuary cities, the particulars of immigration law and deportation actions under Trump, the DREAM Act, DACA, this Admin's complete inability to draft a constitutional executive order, the utter...

    May 3, 2017

    1h 29m
11. 6

    Episode 06 - Suing Deray

    Wherein we discuss the hazards of flying United and American, Alex Jones and the tyranny of family court, our new favorite lawsuit, and the link between Deray's Doritos and blue lives matter.

    Apr 26, 2017

    56m
12. 5

    Episode 05 - Hively v Ivy Tech and The Ghost of Antonin Scalia

    Wherein we discuss Syria, Gorsuch's confirmation and the death of the Supreme Court filibuster, Benadryl, Hively v. Ivy Tech, Title VII, Judge Richard Posner, and more on Originalism. Apologies for any audio weirdness — we had some dumb tech issues at the outset that we scrambled to remedy.

    Apr 13, 2017

    1h 17m
13. 4

    Episode 04 - Neil Gorsuch and the Unstoppable Killing Power of Porygon

    Wherein the two lawyers are on their own for this episode, discussing Kurt Eichenwald and his medical inability to sit through a very specific episode of Pokemon and whether you can be charged criminally for sending that episode to him, as well as Neil Gorsuch's confirmation hearing, more on...

    Mar 31, 2017

    1h 10m
14. 3

    Episode 03 - Fearless Bathroom Warriors

    Wherein we discuss our grim future under Trump's second term, the updated executive order on the Muslim ban (in effect 3/16), Gloucester County School Board v. Gavin Grimm, Title IX, the Equal Protection Clause, the intellectual dishonesty of conservatism, transphobia, as well as recurrent...

    Mar 11, 2017

    1h 06m
15. 2

    Episode 02 - Facially Neutral, Morally Repugnant

    Wherein we discuss legal forms and the leftist imagination, Tom Perez's weird facial hair, David French for some reason, Trump's Muslim Ban, and the 9th Circuit's response to said ban. Here are the sources we discussed:...

    Feb 24, 2017

    1h 15m
16. 1

    Episode 01 - Welcome to the Fascism Forever Club

    The inaugural episode of something each of us will deny having participated. Supreme Leap Forward offers a bad leftist analysis of the Supreme Court, the Constitution, and law in general.

    Feb 19, 2017

    1h 00m