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Broken Law — 198 episodes

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Episode 197: People v. The Court

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Episode 196: Politicized Mergers as a Threat to the Rule of Law

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Episode 195: Bringing the Constitution to the Classroom

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Episode 194: How Close to Autocracy Are We?

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Episode 193: Navigating The Maze of Our Immigration System

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Episode 192: One Year of Trump's Chokehold on Free Speech

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Episode 191: New Year, New Leadership at ACS

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Episode 190: Defending Immigrant Speech

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Episode 189: 'Stand Up Now': Lessons Learned on the Ground in Chicago

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Episode 188: Carrying the Day: Reordering Legal Values Toward Indigenous Rights in Sacred Sites

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Episode 187: Trump's Threats of a Third Term and the 22nd Amendment

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Episode 186: DEI and the First Amendment

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Episode 185: So You're Thinking of Running for Office...

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Episode 184: On the Merits - A Preview of the 2025-2026 SCOTUS Term

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Episode 183: Circling Back

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Episode 182: Waging Lawfare Against Democracy

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Episode 181: AI and Health Equity

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Episode 180: The Voting Rights Act at 60

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Episode 179: "Active Participants in Our Own Liberation"

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Episode 178: 'Irreparable Harm': A Supreme Court Term Review

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Episode 177: The Legal System's Role in Political Violence

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Episode 176: Checks and Balances Upside Down

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Episode 175: Defending Academic Freedom

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Episode 174: The New Civil War Over Reproduction

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Episode 173: The First 100 Days

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Episode 172: A "Bloodless Coup" Underway in North Carolina

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Episode 171: Taking DOGE to Court

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Episode 170: Public Policy and Religious Exemptions Collide Again, and Again, at SCOTUS

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Episode 169: We Are in a Constitutional Crisis

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Episode 168: Confronting the War on Immigrants

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Episode 167: TikTok, Adult Content, and the First Amendment's Big Month at the Court

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Episode 166: What's Next for DEI?

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Episode 165: Judging the Failure of Constitutional Theory

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Episode 164: Holiday Reading Wishlist

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Episode 163: Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes: How Trump Will Move To Roll Back Protections Under Federal Law

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Episode 162: The Threat of a National Abortion Ban in All but Name

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Episode 161: Can’t Stop. Won’t Stop. Judicial Confirmations Post-Election

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Episode 160: What to Expect When You're Expecting Election Results

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Episode 159: The Relationship Between Guns and Democracy

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Episode 158: The Start of a New SCOTUS Term and the End of the 2024 Election

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Episode 157: The Case for Court Reform

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Episode 156: Protecting Workers on Labor Day and Every Day

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Episode 155: Livin' On a Prayer As States Push Church Into Classrooms

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Episode 154: The Court's Breaking Point

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Episode 153: Powering the Polls

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Episode 152: The Impact of AI on Elections and Multiracial Democracy

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Episode 151: The Fraud of Originalism and a Progressive Alternative

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Episode 150: What’s All the Fuss About Antitrust?

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Episode 149: The Promise of Title IX

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Episode 148: Uncovering the Truth About Discrimination in Jury Selection

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Episode 147: "Rightfully Complicit"

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Episode 146: Abortion, Courts, Elections, and You

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Episode 145: Insurrection on the Docket

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Episode 144: Protecting Performers in a New Age of AI

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Episode 143: Misogyny and the Law

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Episode 142: Radical Reparations

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Episode 141: The Electoral College's Past, Present, and Future (Part II of Episode 137 - Is the ECA Prepared for 2024?)

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Episode 140: The Relentless Attack on Government as We Know It

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Episode 139: Will SCOTUS Close the Courthouse Door to Immigrants?

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Episode 138: Two Big Ticket Items for 2024

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Episode 137: Is the ECA Prepared for 2024? Part I

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Episode 136: 2023 Wrap Up

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Episode 135: What a Year for Labor!

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Episode 134: Red Courts, Blue Courts, and AI

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Episode 133: Taking Up Section 3 of the 14th Amendment

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Episode 132: Optional Ethics

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Episode 131: How to Advance Workplace DEI Post SFFA

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Episode 130: SCOTUS Confronts a Mess of Its Own Making

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Episode 129: One Year Out from Election Day 2024

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Episode 128: How Campaign Funding Affects Judicial Decision Making

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Episode 127: The Persecution of a State Supreme Court Justice

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Episode 126: Why We Should All Be Space Lawyers

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Episode 125: The Psychological Torture of the Death Penalty

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Episode 124: Previewing the New SCOTUS Term

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Episode 123: Are Our Elections Ready for AI?

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Episode 122: Lessons from FDR's Court

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Episode 121: The Strife Over a Single State Supreme Court Seat

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Episode 120: Hot Labor Summer!

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Episode 119: Can the Law Keep Up with Climate Science?

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Episode 118: When Does Criticism Become Witness Tampering?

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Episode 117: Where Is the Free Speech Breaking Point?

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Episode 116: Watch These Spaces

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Episode 115: They Are Practicing Rewriting the Constitution

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Episode 114: Are You Being Surveilled at Work?

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Episode 113: Packed, Partisan, and Supremely Powerful

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Episode 112: SCOTUS Greenlights Discrimination

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Episode 111: What Comes After Affirmative Action?

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Episode 110: SCOTUS Keeps the Innocent Incarcerated

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Episode 109: A Win for Tribal Sovereignty

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Episode 108: Part Indictment, Part Voting Rights

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Episode 107: SCOTUS Strikes a Blow to Workers' Rights

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Episode 106: SCOTUS Trashes the Clean Water Act

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Episode 105: TN Rep. Pearson and Our 2023 Mid-Year Review

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Episode 104: BONUS EPISODE - Debt Crisis

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Episode 103: Bradley Whitford Talks Courts

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Episode 102: Shadow Docket Power Grab

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Episode 101: Is the Law Ready for ChatGPT?

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Episode 100: The Making of These Nine Black Robes

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Episode 99: Mifepristone and Judicial Whiplash

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Episode 98: Unpacking the Child Labor Crisis

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Episode 97: Countering Florida's War on CRT

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Episode 96: The Campaign to Erase Trans People from Public Life

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Episode 95: Why The ERA Is More Important Than Ever

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Episode 94: When Forced Birth Becomes a Banality

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Episode 93: How Powerful Should America's Chief Executive Be?

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Episode 92: Student Loans, SCOTUS, and All that Talk of Standing

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Episode 91: The Supreme Court Has an Ethics Problem

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Episode 90: Pulling the Curtain Back on the Anti-Abortion Movement

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Episode 89: Section 230 Goes to the Supreme Court

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Episode 88: Closing the Justice Gap

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Episode 87: Is Dobbs a Canary in the Coal Mine?

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Episode 86: Building an Equitable Economy

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Episode 85: Pedal to the Metal on Judicial Confirmations

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Episode 84: All Eyes on DOJ

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Episode 83: The Jan. 6th Select Committee Is Done. Now What?

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Episode 82: Dobbs and Judges, Summing Up 2022

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Episode 81: Pitting the First Amendment Against LGBTQ+ Rights

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Episode 80: A Radical Legal Fiction

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Episode 79: What the Crypto?

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Episode 78: Election Debrief, Part II

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Episode 77: Post Election Debrief, Part I

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Episode 76: SCOTUS Threatens Much of Indian Law

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Episode 75: Packed SCOTUS Takes Aim at Race-Conscious Laws, Again

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Episode 74: Health Justice after Covid

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Episode 73: Dear Voters, Don't Sleep on These Races

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Episode 72: Cutting Through the Noise on Election Law

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Episode 71: The Voting Rights Act Is on Life Support

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Episode 70: Bracing for the Supreme Court's New Term

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Episode 69: An Unjust Bargain

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Episode 68: The Constitution Is in Jeopardy

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Episode 67: Sex, Gender Identity, and the Constitution

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Episode 66: Dear Senate, Please Prioritize Judges

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Episode 65: The Intentional Effort to Toxify Public Education

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Episode 64: Dobbs, Kansas, and Emerging Abortion Trends

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Episode 63: The ADA Takes on Voter Suppression

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Episode 62: Lessons Learned from Elections Abroad

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Episode 61: Catching Up on All Things January 6th

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Episode 60: Yet Another Supreme Court Power Grab

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Episode 59: 2022 Supreme Court Wrap-Up

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Episode 58: The Supreme Court's Religious Agenda

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Episode 57: The Chaos of a Post-Roe America

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Episode 56: Takeaways from the January 6th Select Committee's Public Hearings

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Episode 55: What Is Happening? 2022 Mid-Year Check-in

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Episode 54: Preparing for Abortion Surveillance in a Post-Roe World

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Episode 53: Two Years After George Floyd's Murder - What Gives?

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Episode 52: A Guide to Reforming the Supreme Court

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Episode 51: The Domino Effect of Dobbs

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Episode 50: Young People vs The Government

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Episode 49: Reproductive Rights in Crisis

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Episode 48: SCOTUS Just Reinforced Puerto Rico's Separate and Unequal Status

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Episode 47: What's Next for the January 6th Select Committee?

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Episode 46: What Did Justice Thomas Know and When?

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Episode 45: Celebrating Judge Jackson's Confirmation

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Episode 44: Pay Attention to State Courts - and Their Elections

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Episode 43: Just How Broken Is Our Immigration System?

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Episode 42: When Legislatures Race to the Bottom

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Episode 41: A State Attorney General Does What Exactly?

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Episode 40: How the Law Views the Ukraine Crisis

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Episode 39: Michigan's Secretary of State Sounds off on Democracy

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Episode 38: Climate Change Goes to Court

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Episode 37: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly of the Senate Confirmation Process

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Episode 36: Money, Corruption and Government, Oh My

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Episode 35: The Case for Reparations in the United States

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Episode 34: "You Control the Supreme Court or You Control Nothing"

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Episode 33: The Gun Lobby's Courtship of the Supreme Court

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Episode 32: We Need to Talk Elections

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Episode 31: January 6th, One Year Later

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Episode 30: What Just Happened? Summing up 2021

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Episode 29: State of Democracy, Part III

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Episode 28: State of Democracy, Part II

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Episode 27: Roe on the Brink

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Episode 26: State of Democracy, Part I

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Episode 25: Courts Matter

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Episode 24: On Native American Land

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Episode 23: How the World Views the Death Penalty

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Episode 22: Disability Law Is Broken

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Episode 21: The Case for Supreme Court Reform

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Episode 20: Confronting Harassment within the Federal Judiciary

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Episode 19: Celebrating Hispanic Heritage

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Episode 18: Black, Innocent, and Convicted

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Episode 17: Legal Legacy of 9/11, Part III

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Episode 16: Legal Legacy of 9/11, Part II

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Episode 15: The Legal Legacy of 9/11, Part I

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Episode 14: Can We Save Reproductive Rights?

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Episode 13: How New Hampshire Abolished the Death Penalty

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Episode 12: Preparing for Redistricting, Bracing for Gerrymandering

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Episode 11: Protecting Workers' Rights in 2021

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Episode 10: Four Years After Charlottesville

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Episode 9: Why We Need Truth, Racial Healing, and Legal Transformation

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Episode 8: In Pursuit of Trans Liberation

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Episode 7: Supreme Court Wrap Up

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Episode 6: The Supreme Court vs Voting Rights

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Episode 5: The Threat of "Originalism"

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Episode 4: The Separation of Powers versus DOJ Subpoenas

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Episode 3: In Pursuit of Death Penalty Abolition

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Episode 2: The Impact of Citizens United on Our Democracy

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Episode 1: What is ACS?

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Episode 0: Welcome to Broken Law