All Episodes
Broken Law — 208 episodes
Episode 207: Puerto Rico: A Part of but Apart from the U.S.
Episode 206: Pink Crime
Episode 205: Civil Society Under Attack
Episode 204: The Imperial Presidency
Episode 203: The Trump Admin's Multifaceted Attacks on Legal Education
Episode 202: SCOTUS Term Refresher
Episode 201: Corruption of and Through the Pardon Power
Episode 200: Never Give Up
Episode 199: Democracy Needs Heroes
Episode 198: The Fight to Free DC
Episode 197: People v. The Court
Episode 196: Politicized Mergers as a Threat to the Rule of Law
Episode 195: Bringing the Constitution to the Classroom
Episode 194: How Close to Autocracy Are We?
Episode 193: Navigating The Maze of Our Immigration System
Episode 192: One Year of Trump's Chokehold on Free Speech
Episode 191: New Year, New Leadership at ACS
Episode 190: Defending Immigrant Speech
Episode 189: 'Stand Up Now': Lessons Learned on the Ground in Chicago
Episode 188: Carrying the Day: Reordering Legal Values Toward Indigenous Rights in Sacred Sites
Episode 187: Trump's Threats of a Third Term and the 22nd Amendment
Episode 186: DEI and the First Amendment
Episode 185: So You're Thinking of Running for Office...
Episode 184: On the Merits - A Preview of the 2025-2026 SCOTUS Term
Episode 183: Circling Back
Episode 182: Waging Lawfare Against Democracy
Episode 181: AI and Health Equity
Episode 180: The Voting Rights Act at 60
Episode 179: "Active Participants in Our Own Liberation"
Episode 178: 'Irreparable Harm': A Supreme Court Term Review
Episode 177: The Legal System's Role in Political Violence
Episode 176: Checks and Balances Upside Down
Episode 175: Defending Academic Freedom
Episode 174: The New Civil War Over Reproduction
Episode 173: The First 100 Days
Episode 172: A "Bloodless Coup" Underway in North Carolina
Episode 171: Taking DOGE to Court
Episode 170: Public Policy and Religious Exemptions Collide Again, and Again, at SCOTUS
Episode 169: We Are in a Constitutional Crisis
Episode 168: Confronting the War on Immigrants
Episode 167: TikTok, Adult Content, and the First Amendment's Big Month at the Court
Episode 166: What's Next for DEI?
Episode 165: Judging the Failure of Constitutional Theory
Episode 164: Holiday Reading Wishlist
Episode 163: Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes: How Trump Will Move To Roll Back Protections Under Federal Law
Episode 162: The Threat of a National Abortion Ban in All but Name
Episode 161: Can’t Stop. Won’t Stop. Judicial Confirmations Post-Election
Episode 160: What to Expect When You're Expecting Election Results
Episode 159: The Relationship Between Guns and Democracy
Episode 158: The Start of a New SCOTUS Term and the End of the 2024 Election
Episode 157: The Case for Court Reform
Episode 156: Protecting Workers on Labor Day and Every Day
Episode 155: Livin' On a Prayer As States Push Church Into Classrooms
Episode 154: The Court's Breaking Point
Episode 153: Powering the Polls
Episode 152: The Impact of AI on Elections and Multiracial Democracy
Episode 151: The Fraud of Originalism and a Progressive Alternative
Episode 150: What’s All the Fuss About Antitrust?
Episode 149: The Promise of Title IX
Episode 148: Uncovering the Truth About Discrimination in Jury Selection
Episode 147: "Rightfully Complicit"
Episode 146: Abortion, Courts, Elections, and You
Episode 145: Insurrection on the Docket
Episode 144: Protecting Performers in a New Age of AI
Episode 143: Misogyny and the Law
Episode 142: Radical Reparations
Episode 141: The Electoral College's Past, Present, and Future (Part II of Episode 137 - Is the ECA Prepared for 2024?)
Episode 140: The Relentless Attack on Government as We Know It
Episode 139: Will SCOTUS Close the Courthouse Door to Immigrants?
Episode 138: Two Big Ticket Items for 2024
Episode 137: Is the ECA Prepared for 2024? Part I
Episode 136: 2023 Wrap Up
Episode 135: What a Year for Labor!
Episode 134: Red Courts, Blue Courts, and AI
Episode 133: Taking Up Section 3 of the 14th Amendment
Episode 132: Optional Ethics
Episode 131: How to Advance Workplace DEI Post SFFA
Episode 130: SCOTUS Confronts a Mess of Its Own Making
Episode 129: One Year Out from Election Day 2024
Episode 128: How Campaign Funding Affects Judicial Decision Making
Episode 127: The Persecution of a State Supreme Court Justice
Episode 126: Why We Should All Be Space Lawyers
Episode 125: The Psychological Torture of the Death Penalty
Episode 124: Previewing the New SCOTUS Term
Episode 123: Are Our Elections Ready for AI?
Episode 122: Lessons from FDR's Court
Episode 121: The Strife Over a Single State Supreme Court Seat
Episode 120: Hot Labor Summer!
Episode 119: Can the Law Keep Up with Climate Science?
Episode 118: When Does Criticism Become Witness Tampering?
Episode 117: Where Is the Free Speech Breaking Point?
Episode 116: Watch These Spaces
Episode 115: They Are Practicing Rewriting the Constitution
Episode 114: Are You Being Surveilled at Work?
Episode 113: Packed, Partisan, and Supremely Powerful
Episode 112: SCOTUS Greenlights Discrimination
Episode 111: What Comes After Affirmative Action?
Episode 110: SCOTUS Keeps the Innocent Incarcerated
Episode 109: A Win for Tribal Sovereignty
Episode 108: Part Indictment, Part Voting Rights
Episode 107: SCOTUS Strikes a Blow to Workers' Rights
Episode 106: SCOTUS Trashes the Clean Water Act
Episode 105: TN Rep. Pearson and Our 2023 Mid-Year Review
Episode 104: BONUS EPISODE - Debt Crisis
Episode 103: Bradley Whitford Talks Courts
Episode 102: Shadow Docket Power Grab
Episode 101: Is the Law Ready for ChatGPT?
Episode 100: The Making of These Nine Black Robes
Episode 99: Mifepristone and Judicial Whiplash
Episode 98: Unpacking the Child Labor Crisis
Episode 97: Countering Florida's War on CRT
Episode 96: The Campaign to Erase Trans People from Public Life
Episode 95: Why The ERA Is More Important Than Ever
Episode 94: When Forced Birth Becomes a Banality
Episode 93: How Powerful Should America's Chief Executive Be?
Episode 92: Student Loans, SCOTUS, and All that Talk of Standing
Episode 91: The Supreme Court Has an Ethics Problem
Episode 90: Pulling the Curtain Back on the Anti-Abortion Movement
Episode 89: Section 230 Goes to the Supreme Court
Episode 88: Closing the Justice Gap
Episode 87: Is Dobbs a Canary in the Coal Mine?
Episode 86: Building an Equitable Economy
Episode 85: Pedal to the Metal on Judicial Confirmations
Episode 84: All Eyes on DOJ
Episode 83: The Jan. 6th Select Committee Is Done. Now What?
Episode 82: Dobbs and Judges, Summing Up 2022
Episode 81: Pitting the First Amendment Against LGBTQ+ Rights
Episode 80: A Radical Legal Fiction
Episode 79: What the Crypto?
Episode 78: Election Debrief, Part II
Episode 77: Post Election Debrief, Part I
Episode 76: SCOTUS Threatens Much of Indian Law
Episode 75: Packed SCOTUS Takes Aim at Race-Conscious Laws, Again
Episode 74: Health Justice after Covid
Episode 73: Dear Voters, Don't Sleep on These Races
Episode 72: Cutting Through the Noise on Election Law
Episode 71: The Voting Rights Act Is on Life Support
Episode 70: Bracing for the Supreme Court's New Term
Episode 69: An Unjust Bargain
Episode 68: The Constitution Is in Jeopardy
Episode 67: Sex, Gender Identity, and the Constitution
Episode 66: Dear Senate, Please Prioritize Judges
Episode 65: The Intentional Effort to Toxify Public Education
Episode 64: Dobbs, Kansas, and Emerging Abortion Trends
Episode 63: The ADA Takes on Voter Suppression
Episode 62: Lessons Learned from Elections Abroad
Episode 61: Catching Up on All Things January 6th
Episode 60: Yet Another Supreme Court Power Grab
Episode 59: 2022 Supreme Court Wrap-Up
Episode 58: The Supreme Court's Religious Agenda
Episode 57: The Chaos of a Post-Roe America
Episode 56: Takeaways from the January 6th Select Committee's Public Hearings
Episode 55: What Is Happening? 2022 Mid-Year Check-in
Episode 54: Preparing for Abortion Surveillance in a Post-Roe World
Episode 53: Two Years After George Floyd's Murder - What Gives?
Episode 52: A Guide to Reforming the Supreme Court
Episode 51: The Domino Effect of Dobbs
Episode 50: Young People vs The Government
Episode 49: Reproductive Rights in Crisis
Episode 48: SCOTUS Just Reinforced Puerto Rico's Separate and Unequal Status
Episode 47: What's Next for the January 6th Select Committee?
Episode 46: What Did Justice Thomas Know and When?
Episode 45: Celebrating Judge Jackson's Confirmation
Episode 44: Pay Attention to State Courts - and Their Elections
Episode 43: Just How Broken Is Our Immigration System?
Episode 42: When Legislatures Race to the Bottom
Episode 41: A State Attorney General Does What Exactly?
Episode 40: How the Law Views the Ukraine Crisis
Episode 39: Michigan's Secretary of State Sounds off on Democracy
Episode 38: Climate Change Goes to Court
Episode 37: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly of the Senate Confirmation Process
Episode 36: Money, Corruption and Government, Oh My
Episode 35: The Case for Reparations in the United States
Episode 34: "You Control the Supreme Court or You Control Nothing"
Episode 33: The Gun Lobby's Courtship of the Supreme Court
Episode 32: We Need to Talk Elections
Episode 31: January 6th, One Year Later
Episode 30: What Just Happened? Summing up 2021
Episode 29: State of Democracy, Part III
Episode 28: State of Democracy, Part II
Episode 27: Roe on the Brink
Episode 26: State of Democracy, Part I
Episode 25: Courts Matter
Episode 24: On Native American Land
Episode 23: How the World Views the Death Penalty
Episode 22: Disability Law Is Broken
Episode 21: The Case for Supreme Court Reform
Episode 20: Confronting Harassment within the Federal Judiciary
Episode 19: Celebrating Hispanic Heritage
Episode 18: Black, Innocent, and Convicted
Episode 17: Legal Legacy of 9/11, Part III
Episode 16: Legal Legacy of 9/11, Part II
Episode 15: The Legal Legacy of 9/11, Part I
Episode 14: Can We Save Reproductive Rights?
Episode 13: How New Hampshire Abolished the Death Penalty
Episode 12: Preparing for Redistricting, Bracing for Gerrymandering
Episode 11: Protecting Workers' Rights in 2021
Episode 10: Four Years After Charlottesville
Episode 9: Why We Need Truth, Racial Healing, and Legal Transformation
Episode 8: In Pursuit of Trans Liberation
Episode 7: Supreme Court Wrap Up
Episode 6: The Supreme Court vs Voting Rights
Episode 5: The Threat of "Originalism"
Episode 4: The Separation of Powers versus DOJ Subpoenas
Episode 3: In Pursuit of Death Penalty Abolition
Episode 2: The Impact of Citizens United on Our Democracy
Episode 1: What is ACS?
Episode 0: Welcome to Broken Law