Gender-Affirming Care in the Court’s Crosshairs
After touching on some shenanigans from the Federalist Society’s National Lawyers Convention and Chuck Schumer’s lousy deal on judicial appointments, Leah, Kate, and Melissa preview December’s upcomin...
2 Dec 20241h 6min
How Will Trump 2.0 Embolden SCOTUS to Gut the Law?
Kate and Melissa comb through the latest from the incoming Trump administration, including the subbing in of Pam Bondi for Matt Gaetz for Attorney General. Then, they take a look at the areas of law t...
25 Nov 20241h 19min
Trump’s Parade of Clowns, Idiots, and Creeps
Leah, Melissa, and Kate wade through more election fallout, including President-elect Trump’s proposed use of recess appointments to jam his cabinet picks through. Also covered: this week’s SCOTUS arg...
18 Nov 20241h 3min
Making Sense of the Election and What It Means for the Court
After processing the election and thinking through what it means for the future of the Supreme Court, Kate and Leah dig into a Voting Rights Act case newly added to SCOTUS’s docket. They also tackle t...
11 Nov 202452min
Election Anxiety: How the Outcome Could Affect SCOTUS’s Docket
After diving deep on a wild story about Justice Alito palling around with a German princess, Melissa, Kate, and Leah take a look at pending SCOTUS cases, including some that could be affected by the o...
4 Nov 202450min
Fifth Circuit Election Madness, a Post-Mortem on Roe, & the War on Drugs
After an emergency intro looking at the Fifth Circuit’s bonkers mail-in ballot decision, the ladies do a deep dive on two books. First, they speak with New York Times correspondents Lisa Lerer and Eli...
28 Okt 20241h 27min
SCOTUS’s Endless Beef with the EPA
Melissa, Kate, and Leah recap October at the Supreme Court, diving into the sewage-infested waters of City and County of San Francisco v. Environmental Protection Agency. What did clean water ever do ...
21 Okt 20241h 4min
"Ghost Guns" are Guns (Duh)
After covering some breaking news, Kate, Melissa and Leah recap last week's oral arguments at the Supreme Court, including cases about civil rights, ghost guns, and the death penalty. Come for the pal...
14 Okt 202447min
