Confirmation Cacophony
We return to our look at all the sitting Supreme Court justices with the final two - Justices Kavanaugh and Gorsuch. This necessarily involves revisiting the confirmation process, particularly in the...
18 Aug 20211h 36min
Neal Katyal's Life in the Law, Part 2 (Special Guest)
Neal Katyal, now at the peak of the Supreme Court bar, reviews many of the big issues the Supreme Court will face in the new term, as well as some just past. Abortion, affirmative action, and cases i...
13 Aug 20211h 22min
Neal Katyal's Life in the Law, Part I
After teasing it for months, Neal Katyal, perhaps our nation’s finest Supreme Court advocate, joins Amarica’s Constitution. The dramatic rise of a truly great lawyer is a fascinating story, including...
3 Aug 20211h 35min
Witness in the Center Square
In these days of Zoom, Professor Amar’s testimony before The Presidential Commission on the Supreme Court of the United States looks a lot like the old TV show, the Hollywood Squares, and Akhil is in ...
28 Juli 20211h 25min
Tall Tales
We continue to profile, recap, analyze, and learn from the nine Supreme Court Justices. This week our focus turns to those justices appointed by Trump, and the seat that would be Garland’s instead we...
21 Juli 20211h 28min
Architects May Come
We continue our Supreme Court series as the term has comes to a close. Akhil profiles the “middle three” Justices: Alito, Sotomayor, and Kagan. Their backgrounds, their finest, and their not-so-fin...
14 Juli 20211h 52min
Political Football
After decades on the bench, Justice Breyer’s distinguished career is, for better or worse, fodder for discussion and debate. Akhil has brought a “refined legal realism” to profiling the various justi...
7 Juli 20211h 37min
Know the Nine You Will
The Supreme Court’s 2020-21 term is closing, and we are opening a window into the Court. We begin this multiple-episode series by looking closely at each Justice - specifically, their backgrounds and...
30 Juni 20211h 50min
