Supreme Betrayal: How the Supreme Court and Constitutional Law Have Failed America
Mark Tushnet, Louis Michael Seidman
31 episodes
2 weeks 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
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The Anti-Oligarchy Constitution: A Conversation
Joseph Fishkin and William Forbath join us to discuss their book The Anti-Oligarchy Constitution. We talk about what their book's title describes, why they think it matters to describe it as a "constitutional" position rather than a "mere" set of policy prescriptions, the importance of historical traditions in thinking about the political use of the word "constitutional," the advantages and disadvantages of using that word as an intensifier, and more (including a digression of the possibility of "secession" or a division of the United States into "blue" and "red" nations)."
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.
