We Need To Talk About Court Expansion
How do you solve a problem like SCOTUS? Kate kicks off our Hot Supreme Court Reform September series with the New York Times’ Jamelle Bouie....
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Strict Scrutiny
Strict Scrutiny is a podcast about the United States Supreme Court and the legal culture that surrounds it. The show is hosted by three women, Leah Litman, Kate Shaw and Melissa Murray, who...
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20 of 431 episodesSCOTUS Greenlights Trump's Ballroom
In this bonus episode, Leah and Melissa break down the Supreme Court’s decision to let Trump move forward with plans for a White House ballr...
Is SCOTUS Letting Trump Meddle in the Midterms?
Kate and Leah break down last week's atrocious shadow docket order on the President's wildly illegal executive order concerning elections an...
Know Your Rights: Do You Have to Talk to Cops?
In the second episode of our Know Your Rights series, Leah and Melissa sit down with NYU Law’s Daniel Harawa to break down what you do—and d...
What Does Peak Fascism Look Like?
Huge news for lawyers: You can now listen to Strict Scrutiny for CLE credits in California, New York, Texas, Pennsylvania, Illinois, Virgini...
All the President’s Henchmen
Huge news for lawyers: You can now listen to Strict Scrutiny for CLE credits in California, New York, Texas, Pennsylvania, Illinois, Virgini...
Know Your Rights: Copwatching 101
In part one of our two-part Know Your Rights series, Leah speaks with Brooklyn Law School’s Jocelyn Simonson about copwatching. They cover w...
Sometimes, These F*ckers Lose
Melissa and Justice Correspondent for The Nation Elie Mystal sift through the results of last week’s primaries, including good news from Mis...
Will Trump Succeed in Rigging the Midterms?
Huge news for lawyers: You can now listen to Strict Scrutiny for CLE credits in California, New York, Texas, Pennsylvania, Illinois, Virgini...
Dude Process, Not Due Process
Huge news for lawyers: You can now listen to Strict Scrutiny for CLE! More info at crooked.com/strict_cle Friend of the Pod Emily Amick of E...
How Bad Is Trump's Attorney General Pick?
Kate brings you a triptych of legal happenings this week. First, the latest news with friend of the pod Katie Phang, including a look at Tod...
Our Long Road Out of Autocracy
Kate is joined by returning guest and friend of the show, Kim Lane Scheppele, the Laurance S. Rockefeller Professor of Sociology and Interna...
Surveying the Wreckage of This Supreme Court Term
Melissa, Kate, and Leah take a look back on this Supreme Court term as a whole. The hypocrisy, the racism, the sheer stupidity... it's all h...
SCOTUS Just Barely Preserves Birthright Citizenship
In their second emergency episode in two days, Leah, Melissa, and Kate break down the Court’s final day of the term and folks, it’s a doozy....
SCOTUS Kills Independent Agencies, Expands Presidential Power
In this emergency episode, Leah and Kate break down today’s incredibly consequential decisions in Trump v. Slaughter and Trump v. Cook , whi...
SCOTUS Keeps Rewriting Gun History
Melissa, Leah, and Kate briefly recap the Court’s two major immigration decisions last week (for a deeper dive, check out last week’s emerge...
BREAKING: SCOTUS Greenlights Trump’s Cruel Immigration Policies
In this emergency episode, Kate, Melissa, and Leah unpack the two major immigration opinions handed down by SCOTUS today. The brutal TL;DR,...
Why is SCOTUS Hoarding Opinions?
Leah, Melissa, Kate, and special guest Elie Mystal of The Nation speculate about why the Court is hoarding opinions this late into bad decis...
The Malicious Incompetence of Trump's DOJ
Kate and Leah cover this week’s three Supreme Court opinions—one featuring a killer Ketanji Brown Jackson dissent—before turning to legal ne...
Affirmative Action for Mediocre Men
Leah and Melissa break down what may be a new low for the Court: granting Alabama’s request to reinstate racially discriminatory voting maps...