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More Perfect is a series about the Supreme Court. More Perfect explores how cases inside the rarefied world of the Supreme Court affect our lives far away from the bench. WNYC Studios is a l...
Reporter Ilya Marritz—a longtime fan of More Perfect —drops in to share a new series he’s made with The Boston Globe and WNYC’s On the Media...
Justice David Souter has died. Souter was one of the most private, low-profile justices ever to have served on the Supreme Court. He rarely...
The law protects creators' original work against copycats, but it also leaves the door open for some kinds of copying. When a photographer s...
In 1902, a Swedish-American pastor named Henning Jacobson refused to get the smallpox vaccine. This launched a chain of events leading to tw...
Dred Scott v. Sandford is one of the most infamous cases in Supreme Court history: in 1857, an enslaved person named Dred Scott filed a suit...
David Souter is one of the most private, low-profile justices ever to have served on the Supreme Court. He rarely gives interviews or speech...
Recently, On the Media’s Micah Loewinger was called to testify in court. He had reported on militia groups who’d helped lead the January 6 a...
Last week, the Supreme Court upheld the Indian Child Welfare Act in a case called Haaland v. Brackeen . The decision comes almost exactly 10...
Now that the “viability line” in pregnancy — as defined by Roe v. Wade — is no longer federal law, lawmakers and lawyers are coming up with...
When the justices heard oral arguments in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization , the landmark abortion case, one word came up more t...
This week, we revisit one of the most important Supreme Court cases you’ve probably never heard of: Baker v. Carr, a redistricting case from...
Unlike other branches of government, the Supreme Court operates with almost no oversight. No cameras are allowed in the courtroom, no bindin...
To many Americans, Clarence Thomas makes no sense. For more than 30 years on the Court, he seems to have been on a mission — to take away ri...
More than 30 years ago, a Native American man named Al Smith was fired for ingesting peyote at a religious ceremony. When his battle made it...
To kick off the new season, host Julia Longoria returns to high school, where she first fell in love with the Supreme Court. She was a star...
More Perfect has been dark for four years now. But next year, hosted by Julia Longoria, we're coming back! The past few weeks have been hist...
In More Perfect's final episode of the season, listen to liner notes for two amendments that contemplate the still-unfinished status of our...
This week, More Perfect takes a look at three amendments on the more obscure end of the spectrum. The 12th, 17th, and 20th Amendments made f...
The 25th and 26th Amendments — ratified in 1967 and 1971, respectively — are some of the newest additions to our founding document. However,...
On first read the 16th and 22nd Amendments are at best sleepers and at worst, stinkers. In a list of Constitutional hits like the right to f...
Amendments 13, 14, and 15 are collectively known as the Reconstruction Amendments: they were passed as instructions to rebuild the country a...
Episode Four begins as all episodes should: with Dolly Parton. Parton wrote a song for us (!) about the 19th Amendment and women (finally) g...
The first eight amendments to the U.S. Constitution are literal, straightforward, and direct. But when we get to Amendments Nine, 10, and 11...
The Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, Seventh and Eighth Amendments enshrine some of our most important civil liberties. They tell us about the rights w...
Last year in the wake of the attack in Las Vegas, reporter Sean Rameswaram took a deep dive into America's twisty, thorny, seemingly irrecon...
Let's get started. If we're talking about the Amendments to the U.S. Constitution, it only feels right to start at the beginning. The First...
This fall, More Perfect is doing something brand new: We’re making an album! It’s called 27: The Most Perfect Album. We’ve partnered with so...
What happens when the Supreme Court, the highest court in the land, seems to get it wrong? Korematsu v. United States upheld President Frank...
An unassuming string of 16 words tucked into the Constitution grants Congress extensive power to make laws that impact the entire nation. Th...
The rules of oral argument at the Supreme Court are strict: when a justice speaks, the advocate has to shut up. But a law student noticed th...
On this episode, we revisit Edward Blum, a self-described “legal entrepreneur” and former stockbroker who has become something of a Supreme...
On a fall afternoon in 1984, Dethorne Graham ran into a convenience store for a bottle of orange juice. Minutes later he was unconscious, in...
“Equal protection of the laws” was granted to all persons by the 14th Amendment in 1868. But for nearly a century after that, women had a ha...
Should you be able to say and do whatever you want online? And if not, who should police this? More Perfect hosts a debate about online hate...
Citizens United vs. Federal Election Commission is one of the most polarizing Supreme Court cases of all time. So what is it actually about,...
Should the U.S. Supreme Court be the court of the world? In the 18th century, two feuding Frenchmen inspired a one-sentence law that helped...
The Supreme Court may not have been conceptualized as a co-equal branch of the federal government, but it became one as a result of the poli...
For nearly 200 years of our nation’s history, the Second Amendment was an all-but-forgotten rule about the importance of militias. But in th...
“It is an invidious, undemocratic, and unconstitutional practice,” Justice John Paul Stevens said of gerrymandering in Vieth v. Jubelirer (2...
In this episode of More Perfect, how two families grapple with one terrible Supreme Court decision. Dred Scott v. Sandford is one of the mos...
What happens when the Supreme Court, the highest court in the land, seems to get it wrong? Korematsu v. United States is a case that’s been...
More Perfect, the show that takes you inside the United States Supreme Court, is back on October 2, 2017. Sex, race, guns, executive orders:...
At the trial of James Batson in 1983, the prosecution eliminated all the black jurors from the jury pool. Batson objected, setting off a com...
With the recent passing of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, there's been a lot of debate about how much power the Supreme Court should re ally have. We...
On this episode, we visit Edward Blum, a 64-year-old “legal entrepreneur” and former stockbroker who has become something of a Supreme Court...
On this episode, a three-year-old girl and the highest court in the land. From the Radiolab archives, Adoptive Couple v. Baby Girl is the st...
The question of how much power the Supreme Court should possess has divided justices over time. But the issue was perhaps never more hotly d...
On the inaugural episode of More Perfect , we explore three little words embedded in the 8th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution: “cruel and...
How does an elite group of nine people shape everything from marriage and money, to safety and sex for an entire nation? From the producers...