Supreme Betrayal: How the Supreme Court and Constitutional Law Have Failed America
Mark Tushnet, Louis Michael Seidman
31 episodes
3 days ago
Sitting in their marble palace, dressed in their black robes, Supreme Court Justices would like us to believe that they are wise and disinterested oracles dispensing words of truth and justice. Nothing could be further from the truth. Every episode week, Mark Tushnet and Mike Seidman, two renown constitutional law scholars, lift the curtain and show us how the men and women there who sit on the High Court have been manipulating us.
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Sitting in their marble palace, dressed in their black robes, Supreme Court Justices would like us to believe that they are wise and disinterested oracles dispensing words of truth and justice. Nothing could be further from the truth. Every episode week, Mark Tushnet and Mike Seidman, two renown constitutional law scholars, lift the curtain and show us how the men and women there who sit on the High Court have been manipulating us.
Supreme Betrayal: How the Supreme Court and Constitutional Law Have Failed America
42 minutes 45 seconds
1 month ago
Birthright Citizenship
Why are the birthright citizenship cases both not such a big deal and a big deal? After going through the arguments for the Trump administration’s position in some detail (the arguments against it are so obvious that we don’t spend much time on them), we situate the cases in the administration’s larger policy and ideological agendas: from a policy point of view they aren’t that big a deal, but from an ideological one they might be.
Supreme Betrayal: How the Supreme Court and Constitutional Law Have Failed America
Sitting in their marble palace, dressed in their black robes, Supreme Court Justices would like us to believe that they are wise and disinterested oracles dispensing words of truth and justice. Nothing could be further from the truth. Every episode week, Mark Tushnet and Mike Seidman, two renown constitutional law scholars, lift the curtain and show us how the men and women there who sit on the High Court have been manipulating us.
