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The Citizen's Guide to the Supreme Court — 435 episodes

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1

Nazim's Doom-and-Gloom Gerrymanding Spectacular

2

Rich Borders, Porous Borders

3

Merry Christmas, You Filthy Animals

4

Everything All At Once

5

Birthright Citizenship and Skrmetti

6

The Foothills of Mt. Doomsday

7

Sex, Drugs, and Unemployment Taxes

8

Government Efficiency Run Amok

9

TikTok v. Garland Oral Argument

10

The 2024 Presidential Election

11

The Rise and Fall of Chevron

12

Trump Immunity Decision

13

50 Shades of Originalism

14

Abortion & Guns (Civ Pro & Statutory Interpretation)

15

The Case Against Donald Trump

16

FDA v. Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine Oral Argument

17

Colorado, Executive Immunity and Yes We're Talking About Trump Again.

18

Donald Trump and the Colorado Ballot

19

Trump, Double Jeopardy and Guns

20

The Third Wrongest Decision of the 2023 Term

21

The Two Wrongest Decisions of the 2023 Term

22

Opinionpalooza

23

Down Goes the Internet

24

No Way FDA

25

New Kids on the Docket (Part 2)

26

New Kids on the Docket (Part 1)

27

The Seminal Case of "A" v. "The"

28

The Grinch Who Stole Student Loan Forgiveness

29

Conservative Law Heat Check

30

The Annual Thanksgiving Mailbag Episode

31

How Many Judges Does It Take to Define a Wetland?

32

Room Temperature News from Room Temperature Dudes

33

War(hol) Profiteers

34

The Citizen's Guide to Intellectual Property

35

The Hogs of Federalism

36

The Citizen's Guide to Getting Arrested

37

The Citizen's Guide to Getting Sued

38

Nazim's Birthday Voting Rights Spectacular

39

Masterpiece Cakes 3: Revenge of the Sachertorte

40

The Citizen's Guide to Equal Protection

41

The Neutrals!!, feat. Donald Trump, Mar A Largo, and Affirmative Action

42

The Citizen's Guide to Congress

43

The Citizen's Guide to the Executive Branch

44

The Citizen's Guide to the Courts

45

SEASON FINALE LIVE: Fantasy Things Draft 2022

46

The 2022 SCOTUS Fall Line-Up

47

Last Call for Criminal Law

48

Gorsuch and Tribal Sovereignty

49

Administra-VAGANZA!!!!

50

The Hyperbole Police

51

Calvinball and the Second Amendment

52

The Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Decision

53

We Are Living in a Conservative World and I am a Conservative Girl

54

What We Do on the Shadow Docket

55

The Second Amendment

56

How Political Is It?

57

The Long-Awaited Boston Flag Episode

58

GUEST EP: Gabe Roth on Judicial Ethics

59

Alito's Draft Dobbs Opinion

60

Thank God for Football

61

Laws 2, Constitution 0

62

Soft on Crime

63

First Amendment Red Flags

64

Ketanji Explains It All

65

Harry Potter and the Gerrymandered Maps

66

Boston Marathon Bomber & the Less-Famous Abortion Decision

67

Drugs and the Mind Police

68

The Philadelphia Eagles and Administrative Law

69

Religious Rights Surivivor Series

70

God Bless the Death Penalty

71

Federal Elections Commission v. the Zodiac Killer

72

Breyer's Retirement and the 5th Annual Summit on Guns

73

Vaccine Mandate Epilogue

74

Vaccine Mandate Oral Arguments

75

The Neil Gorsuch Gruel Consistency Index

76

Complicated, But Not Sexy

77

Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Oral Argument

78

The Annual Thanksgiving Mailbag Episode (2021)

79

Sexy, But Not Complicated

80

Criminal Procedure and the Boston Marathon Bomber

81

SB8 Oral Argument (aka 2 Canary 2 Coal Mine)

82

Birthday Boys, Taco Analysis, and a Suprisingly Uneventful Case About Abortion Statutes

83

The Occassionally Armed Career Guide to the Supreme Court

84

Prof. Nazim's Legal Treatise on Fart Law

85

I Scream, You Scream, We All Scream for Vaccine Mandates

86

The Canary in the Coalmine

87

SEASON FINALE LIVE: Fantasy Things Draft 2021

88

Nazim Loves Limp Bizkit

89

The Shape of Abortion Law to Come

90

The Victories of Rich, Conservative Fast Food Franchise Owners

91

Takings Clause Another Little Piece of My Heart Now Bay-Bay

92

Nazim v. Alito: Who Ya Got?

93

F*** Podcasts

94

Cocaine, College Sports, and Delicious Butter

95

Big June Energy

96

Who Are You? (Doot Doot, Doot Doot)

97

Guam, Jerry. Guam.

98

Chief Justice Tina Turner

99

What Lawyers Should You Sit With At A Wedding?

100

Tinder Profiles for a Supreme Court Justice

101

The Perks of Being a Rich, Conservative Fast Food Franchise Owner

102

Principal Doofus

103

The Great Court-Packing, Google-Winning Episode of 2021

104

Previewing Wrestlemania with Personal Jurisdiction

105

Jurassic World and Constitutional Law

106

F@#$, Marry, Kill in Tax Law

107

Hot for Seizure

108

Who Will Save the Barracudas?

109

Nazim's Yearly Voting Rights Case

110

Sportsball Talk Radio

111

Inglorious Breyer-stards

112

The Least Worst Things About Facebook

113

Access Denied

114

A Nerdy Shade of Winter

115

Last RFRA-MAS, I Gave You My Heart

116

Cold News From Cold Dudes

117

The Supreme Court is Not Reversing the Election, Part 2

118

Masterpiece Cakes 2: The Cakening

119

The Annual Thanksgiving Mailbag Episode

120

Takings Clause Me Home Tonight

121

Brett "the Hitman" Kavanaugh

122

The Supreme Court is Not Reversing the Election

123

Delaware as an Allegory for Chaos

124

Amy Coney Barracuda

125

The Old Man and the Skateboard

126

GUEST EP: Gabe Roth from Fix the Court

127

In Memoriam Justice Ginsburg

128

SEASON FINALE LIVE: Fantasy Things Draft 2020

129

COVID Mailbag

130

What's the Deal with Admin Law?

131

Governmental Health

132

Vuoi la Moglie Ubriace e la Botte Piena

133

God One, Montana Zero

134

Maybe The Supreme Court is Not That Into You

135

BUZZFEED QUIZ 2020: Which Justice Are You?

136

Nazim, What Do You Think About That?

137

DACA Flynn Boyle

138

Let's Talk About (Statutory Definitions of) Sex Baby

139

In re Robocallers

140

Qualified Immunity

141

De Facto Officer and a Gentleman

142

Rules v. Outcome: Political Armageddon Edition

143

No One Owns The Law

144

Teleconferencin' Aint Easy

145

Action and Inaction

146

Nine Angry Justices

147

The Ballad of the M/T Athos I

148

Sharp Cheddar Epilogue

149

Sharp Cheddar Democracy

150

The PTO Can GTFO

151

Kagan and the Dudes

152

Delaware Are You?

153

Roe v. Wa(De Ja Vu)

154

It's a Small World After All

155

Sotomayoral Debate

156

Don't Go Chasing Water Definitions

157

What's Wrong with Obamacare This Time??

158

It's Not Fun to Sue with A! C! C! A!

159

Never Trust Arizona, when DEATH is on the Line

160

We Improved The Sound For Chris Christie

161

MID-SEASON FINALE - Oral Argument Re-Runs

162

RFRA Claus is Coming to Town

163

Anne-otations of Green Gables

164

All (SCOTUS of) American Rejects

165

The Annual Thanksgiving Mailbag Episode

166

Immigration Door #2 (DACA)

167

Out of My Dreams, Into My Car

168

Twelve Angry Federalists

169

Religious Rights Royal Rumble

170

Immigration Door #1

171

Its Fun to Sue with the F! D! C! A!

172

Kansas Giveth, Kansas Taketh Away

173

Impeachment Pit

174

SEASON FINALE LIVE: Fantasy Things Draft 2020

175

GUEST EP: Simon Tam, Bass Player of the Slants

176

We Should Have a Public Access TV Show

177

A Docket of Deplorables

178

A Real Threat or a Mere Shadow

179

Go Home Admin Law, You're Drunk

180

It's Concurring Opinion Season

181

Good Night, Sweet Political Questions

182

A Summer of Sequels

183

It's Breyer Time, Part 2

184

It's Breyer Time!

185

The Health Care System Likes to Cha-Cha-Cha

186

Fourth Annual Summit on Guns (and Abortion)

187

A Memorial-Day-Weekend Kind of Episode

188

Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Hyatt Decision??

189

I, Debt-Monger

190

Chekhov's Dreadful Gay Rights Cases

191

California v. Nevada Death Match

192

Do You Wanna Hear a Secret?

193

The Constitutionality of Vampire Laws

194

Admin Law Under Attack (???/!!!)

195

We're a True Crime Podcast Now

196

Presidential Free-Style

197

The Good Guys and Bad Guys of Gerrymandering

198

It's Dissenting Opinion Season

199

Census? They Hardly Knew Us!

200

Booze & Federalism

201

Math Fights: Civil Forfeiture

202

The Abortion Cases of Tomorrow, TODAY!

203

Is Congress Incompetent? A Play in Two Parts

204

Anti Trust Falls

205

Hot News From Hot Dudes 2019

206

Is This Ineffective Assistance of Counsel, Part 4

207

Barristers Always Pay Their Debts

208

Decisions, Decisions

209

The Blake Bortles of Supreme Court Cases

210

Jam Master Judiciary

211

The One with Harrison's Homework

212

He's the Burglar, I'm the Robber

213

Thanksgiving Mailbag Episode

214

Takings Clause, Civil Procedure, and MAYBE a Cemetary

215

Sexual, But Also Offensive

216

Trick or Treaties

217

Trucker Treat

218

Top Five Dumbest Issue Statements

219

Dr. Brett and Mr. Nazim

220

I'll Take Confusing Legal Doctrines for 200, Alex

221

The Kavanaugh Appointment Episode

222

SEASON FINALE LIVE: Fantasy Things Draft 2019

223

Finishing Up the Term, Part 2

224

Finishing Off the Term, Part One

225

Pri-i-vate Eyes! Are Watching Yooo-uuuu!

226

Justicability League

227

Intoducing the Second Best Brett

228

Reproductive Rights vs. Free Speech: Who Ya Got?

229

All Hell Breaks Loose: A Play in Three Parts

230

A Remand By Any Other Name Would Smell as Sweet

231

How Big of a Deal is This?

232

The Masterpiece Cakes Decision is Terrible

233

Arbitration Beats Worker's Rights

234

New Jersey Beats the Federal Government

235

Trump and the Travel Ban

236

Judge Dredd

237

Interesting Things the Week After 4/20

238

Decisions in Microsoft and Dimaya

239

How Punk Rock Is It To Sue the Government?

240

Double Double Toil & Trouble

241

Family Court War Stories

242

A Heaping Buffet of Precedent Talk

243

The Fact Act Gets Wacked??

244

Gray Clouds and Silver Linings

245

Decisions in Jennings and Patchak

246

Decisions in Class, Somers, and Murphy

247

The One SCOTUS Case That May Cost You Money

248

It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia

249

Thomas Hates House Parties (and Overturning Death Penalty Convictions)

250

GUEST EP: Native American Law and Water Rights

251

GUEST EP: Voter Disenfranchisement and Gerrymandering

252

Is This Ineffective Assistance of Counsel? (Part III)

253

Supreme Court Sesame Street

254

Just Get a Damn Warrant

255

WWJND (What Would Judge Neil Do)?

256

Holiday Mailbag Episode

257

The Gang Solves the Masterpiece Cakes Crisis

258

Alien v. Predator, Inc.

259

Guilty Pleas and Thank Yous

260

Thanksgiving Mailbag Episode

261

Who Let the Lawyer Dawgs Out?

262

Citizen's Guide to House Parties

263

Nazim's Gerrymandering Birthday Extravaganza

264

Work Sucks

265

Cell Phones and the 4th Amendment

266

Federal Govt. v. New Jersey: Who Ya Got??

267

Legislature v. Courts: Who Ya Got??

268

What We Did On Our Summer Vacation

269

The 2016/2017 Season Finale Extravaganza!

270

The Impeachment Episode

271

The Lawyer's Guide to the Supreme Court

272

Every Gorsuch Vote from 2017 Analyzed

273

The Citizen's Guide BuzzFeed Quiz: Which Justice Are You?

274

Is This an Unreasonable Extension of the Law?

275

The President (Probably) Can't Pardon Himself

276

Trump, Lies, and Videotape

277

The Tumultuous History of Bivens Claims

278

Third Annual Summit on Guns: Police Edition

279

The Worst Monday Morning for Liberals Since Mad Men Ended

280

We Don't Know if Kennedy Will Retire Either

281

The Shape of Free Speech to Come

282

9th Circuit Addendum to the Travel Ban Episode

283

Travel Ban Appeal and the Bummers of Gender Equality

284

Wonder Woman, GRAVE DIGGING, and Four Case Results

285

Racial Gerrymandering, Plus Like Four Hunger Games Tangents

286

All Rise for the Mailbag Episode

287

Ding! Dong! The Voter ID Laws Are Dead (kind of)!

288

The Gay Rights Cases of Tomorrow.....TODAY!!

289

GUEST EP: Congress and the ACA Repeal

290

Miami, Venezuela, and West Coast Sanctuary Cities

291

The Constitutionality of Immigrant Removal Statutes

292

Results in Nelson, Manrique, & AK Death Penalty Appeals

293

Civil SCOTUS Lightning Round

294

When Can An Airline Forcibly Drag You Off the Airplane?

295

Three Opinions and a Gorsuch

296

The Most Exciting Podcast Ever About Personal Jurisdiction

297

Your Right to an Equally Flawed Expert in Criminal Court

298

Travel Ban II: The Trumpire Strikes Back

299

The Big Business of Criminal Convictions

300

Three Questions about Hernandez v. Mesa

301

Chili Cheesesteaks, Trans Rights, and Racist Jurors

302

Results in Buck & Frye, Updates in Tam & G.G.

303

Miami v. the Banks

304

The Right to Bail in Immigration Cases

305

Emoluments Clause Family Feud

306

Trump Loses in the 9th Circuit

307

Who is Judge Neil (Gorsuch)?

308

Donald Trump's Executive Order on Immigration

309

GUEST EP: The Affordable Care Act Repeal

310

Is This Ineffective Assistance of Counsel, Part 2?

311

Revenge of the Enemy Combatants

312

A New Take on Police Shootings

313

SCOTUS Takes On Our Clogged Toilet Government

314

Handing Over the Smoking Gun

315

Have a Happy [Establishment-Clause-Approved] Holiday

316

Results in Shaw and Salman

317

Who Will Think of the Children?!?

318

How to Sue People, In 600 Easy Steps

319

The Likely Result of Election-Based Lawsuits

320

Sex Offenders and Facebook

321

Trans Rights, Bank Fraud and White Collar Crime

322

A Fireside Chat with Brett and Nazim

323

Historical Failures Appointing Supreme Court Justices

324

Donald Trump and the Supreme Court

325

What's the Deal with Elena Kagan?

326

Big Sam on Free Speech

327

How Similar are Kennedy and Sandra Day O'Connor?

328

Sotomayor vs. Police Incompetence

329

The Creative Lawyering of Ruth Bader Ginsburg

330

The Scalia-Thomas One-Two Punch

331

The Breyer Scale, Revisited

332

How Does Roberts Rate as a Chief Justice?

333

Viva La Libert(arians)

334

The Voting Rights Act: To Stay or Not to Stay

335

The Voting Rights Act: Life After Shelby County

336

The Voting Rights Act: The Dunce Corner

337

Who is to Blame for Bush v. Gore?

338

Revenge of the Public Defenders!!

339

Ranking Non-Bill of Rights Amendments, Part 2

340

Ranking Non-Bill of Rights Amendments, Part 1

341

Season 2 Finale: Cases Not Selected and Term Summary

342

SCOTUS Results Lightning Round

343

Affirmative Action and Strict Scrutiny

344

Results in Beylund and Voisine

345

What's Next After U.S. v. Texas

346

The State of Abortion after Whole Women's Health

347

Results in Strieff, Taylor, and Kirtsaeng

348

Epilogue to Sunday's Episode

349

The Citizen's Guide to Lower Court Decisions

350

EXPEDITED PODCAST: Sanchez Valle, Dietz, and Williams

351

Why You Should Care About Administrative Law

352

EXPEDITED PODCAST: Hawkes and Foster

353

When Can The Govt Take Your Land?

354

Civil Juries v. Criminal Juries

355

Legal Analysis of the N.C. Bathroom Law

356

EXPEDITED PODCAST: Zubik v. Burwell

357

Beylund Oral Argument & Decisions in Patterson and Bank Markazi

358

The Legal Failings of Tom Brady & the Washington Redskins

359

GUEST EP: Children's Rights in the Legal System

360

The Internet Killed the Copyright Star

361

Judges, Immigration Oral Argument and Speedy Trial Rights.

362

All the Stupid Hobby Lobby Cases

363

GUEST EP: Women's Rights & Government Regulation

364

Results in Evenwell, Luis and Lockhart

365

Who's Afraid of the Big Biased Wolf?

366

Hot News from Hot Dudes

367

Nazim v. Federalism

368

GUEST EP: Constitutional Amendments and Anti-Trust Law

369

Oral Arguments on Women's Rights Cases

370

The Immigration Debate Comes to the Supreme Court

371

GUEST EP: Historical Context of Current SCOTUS Cases

372

GUEST EP: Ask a Public Defender, Part 1

373

GUEST EP: Ask a Public Defender, Part 2

374

In Memoriam Justice Scalia

375

One Person, One Vote

376

Has California Killed Arbitration Clauses?

377

What to Look for in a Presidential Candidate

378

Big Changes Coming to DUI Law?

379

Results in Hurst v. Florida + Making a Murderer + Listener Mail

380

Double Jeopardy, Game Shows, and the Legal Status of Puerto Rico

381

When Can Employers Require Nudity?

382

What's the Point of Batson Challenges?

383

How Do You Solve A Problem like Scalia (and Mass Shootings)?

384

Breaking Down Bank Markazi v. Peterson

385

One Year Anniversary Blooper Reel

386

SCOTUS Lightning Round!!

387

Affirmative Action and Higher Education

388

Consumer Protection Claims & the Concept of Standing

389

Michael Myers and the Juvenile Justice System

390

The Seventh Circuit Has Gone Rogue

391

Everyting You Need to Know about Class Actions

392

When Can the Government Infringe on Free Speech

393

The Many Exceptions to the 4th Amendment

394

How Does Criminal Law Punish Defendants?

395

Why Do We Give Constitutional Rights to Criminal Defendants?

396

The Present and Future of Abortion Cases

397

The Scope of Roe v. Wade

398

What is Substantive Due Process Exactly??

399

Season Finale: Cases Not Selected and Superlatives

400

With Great Power, Comes Justice Elena Kagan

401

When Can the NFL Search Your Cell Phone?

402

John Kerry v. the World!

403

When Can Police Search Your Car?

404

Is This Ineffective Assistance of Counsel?

405

Results in Arizona Districting Case & EPA v. Michigan

406

Decisions in Obergefell and Glossip

407

Results in King v. Burwell and Texas Housing v. Inclusive Communities

408

Decisions in Clark, Brumfield, and Sons of Confederate Veterans

409

Is Lethal Injection Unconstitutional?

410

Facebook, Abercrombie, and the Supreme Court

411

Origins and Limits of the Supreme Court's Power

412

Mortgage Foreclosure and Predatory Lending

413

Money, Politics, and Free Speech

414

Technical Aspects of the Death Penalty

415

Same Sex Marriage Oral Argument

416

The Importance of Jury Duty

417

Indiana RFRA: Fact or Fiction

418

The Catch 22 of Free Speech

419

Obamacare

420

The Failures of Equal Protection

421

Same Sex Marriage & the Supreme Court

422

How Does Equal Protection Work?

423

Equal Protection and Private Discrimination

424

Mailbag and Updates - Part 2

425

Mailbag and Updates - Part 1

426

The Consitutionality of Income Taxes

427

Child Abuse and the Confrontation Clause

428

Grand Juries, Govt. Immunity and Police Use of Deadly Force

429

4th Amendment Privacy and Smart Phones

430

Legalization of Marijuana

431

Facebook and Free Speech

432

Hobby Lobby

433

D.C. v. Heller & Heien v. North Carolina

434

Evolutionary v. Originalist Perspectives

435

Supreme Court Name Game