Boyle v. United Technologies Corporation
What does a military contractor have in common with Justice Antonin Scalia? They both manufacture things! The contractor manufactures helicopters with faulty escape hatches. Scalia manufactures, out o...
21 Mars 202345min
"When I say EMPTY you say SKULL" - Live in Austin [TEASER]
Recorded live at Stateside at the Paramount! Join us as we skewer Texas judges (not literally!), teach a robot to argue before the Supreme Court, and answer the question that has haunted this podcast ...
14 Mars 20235min
5-4 Presents: Unreformed - "The Lucky Ones"
This week, 5-4 invites you to check out an episode of Unreformed: the Story of the Alabama Industrial School for Negro Children, hosted by friend-of-the-pod Josie Duffy Rice.In 1968, police arrested f...
7 Mars 202340min
In re Gault with Josie Duffy Rice
It's not easy being a kid. Especially when the state thinks you don't have any constitutional rights. Thank goodness for this week's case, In re Gault, where the Court decides you can have a little ri...
28 Feb 202353min
Prosecutorial Immunity, or "FTP" Means Prosecutors Too [TEASER]
You know and hate qualified immunity, which allows cops to get away with murder. Now meet prosecutorial immunity, the judge-made doctrine that allows prosecutors to get away with the death penalty. Pr...
21 Feb 20234min
Connick v. Thompson Encore
What is the greater crime? Missing a recording and pushing an episode back by a week … or using the full power of the state to prosecute a man for something he did not do, confining him in solitary as...
14 Feb 20231h
"Jones Day Made Trump" - Live at Harvard Law with David Enrich
Recorded live at Harvard Law School's Corporate Capture of the Legal System conference, we're talking about Jones Day. The law firm jumps into bed with all manner of villains with the justification th...
7 Feb 20231h 10min
Korematsu v. United States
In this case from 1944 the Court decides that arresting someone on "suspicion of being Japanese" and putting them in a concentration camp is not racially motivated. And while we're at it, don't call i...
31 Jan 202343min
