The Law of the Land: A History of the Supreme Court

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History of the Supreme Court

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Fundamental Cases: The Twentieth Century Courtroom Battles That Changed Our Nation

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E Pluribus Unum: How the Common Law Helped Unify and Liberate Colonial America, 1607-1776

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Active Liberty: Interpreting Our Democratic Constitution

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Constitutional Personae: Heroes, Soldiers, Minimalists, and Mutes (Inalienable Rights)

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Freedom of Speech: Understanding the First Amendment

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Liberty: Natural Rights and the American Constitution

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Ratification: The People Debate the Constitution, 1787-1788

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A People's History of the Supreme Court: The Men and Women Whose Cases and Decisions Have Shaped Our Constitution

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Democracy and Equality: The Enduring Constitutional Vision of the Warren Court

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The Supremes' Greatest Hits, 2nd Revised & Updated Edition: The 44 Supreme Court Cases That Most Directly Affect Your Life

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Philosophy and the Law: How Judges Reason

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Packing the Court: The Rise of Judicial Power and the Coming Crisis of the Supreme Court

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How to Read the Constitution--and Why

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Making Our Democracy Work: A Judge's View

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A Matter of Interpretation: Federal Courts and the Law

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Law in America: A Short History

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The Constitution Today: Timeless Lessons for the Issues of Our Era

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The American Legal Experience

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The Supreme Court: The Personalities and Rivalries That Defined America

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The Soul of the First Amendment

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We the People: A Progressive Reading of the Constitution for the Twenty-First Century

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The Bill of Rights: Understanding the Constitution and Your Freedoms

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Our Republican Constitution: Securing the Liberty and Sovereignty of We the People

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Uncivil Warriors: The Lawyers' Civil War

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The Free Speech Century

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Prosecuting the President: How Special Prosecutors Hold Presidents Accountable and Protect the Rule of Law

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The Constitution: An Introduction

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Landmark Supreme Court Decisions and How They Impact Your Life

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Scalia's Court: A Legacy of Landmark Opinions and Dissents

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Killing the Guys Who Killed the Guy Who Killed Lincoln: A Nutty Story About Edwin Booth and Boston Corbett

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Sins of the Founding Father: George Washington, the Indigenous Tribes, and the Decisions that Shaped America’s Future

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Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race

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An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States

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Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation

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Astor: The Rise and Fall of an American Fortune

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Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History

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Killing the Witches: The Horror of Salem, Massachusetts

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The Only Plane in the Sky: An Oral History of September 11, 2001

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Land of Delusion: Out on the edge with the crackpots and conspiracy-mongers remaking our shared reality

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The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women

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1776

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Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom

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How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States

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John Adams

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The Indifferent Stars Above: The Harrowing Saga of the Donner Party

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The Book of Charlie

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Dragonfire: Four Days That (Almost) Changed America

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Valiant Women: The Extraordinary American Servicewomen Who Helped Win World War II

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Ghosts of Honolulu: A Japanese Spy, A Japanese American Spy Hunter, and the Untold Story of Pearl Harbor

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UFO: The Inside Story of the US Government's Search for Alien Life Here—and Out There

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Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present

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Undaunted Courage: Meriwether Lewis Thomas Jefferson And The Opening Of The American West

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South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation

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Necessary Trouble: Growing Up at Midcentury

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The Untold History of the United States

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The House of Hidden Meanings: A Memoir

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Lies My Teacher Told Me: 2nd Edition

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Up From Slavery

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The Wright Brothers

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Fake News: The Facts: There are lies, damn lies, and then there’s fake news. Manipulating the facts for political gain is as old as politics itself, but due to the rise of social media and search engine algorithms false stories can now spread like wildfire. In the run-up to...

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Episode 118: Michael Walzer - A Struggle for a Decent Politics: A conversation with Michael Walzer about his recent book, "A Struggle for a Decent Politics: On '...

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A Week of Unimaginable Judicial Hell Destroying What’s Left of America Ep. 158: In this episode of the Conservative Conscience, we speak the truth about the severity of the judicial crisis, how it happened, what is happening now that makes this issue an emergency, why it won’t be fixed with traditional methods, how conservative legal elites have screwed us, and what we can do about it.  We begin by addressing almost a dozen mind-boggling decisions by the courts recently and how they are shutting down our country and nobody is talking about it.  Next, we address the stratagem and philosophy behind what they are doing and how it will succeed no matter how many new judges Trump appoints. Finally, we conclude with a lesson on the difference between judicial review and judicial supremacy, how “conservative” legal activists are part of the problem and misunderstand this lesson, and what we can do to educate people and change course.   Key quotes: “If god gave me one political wish, it

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Jason Mitchell, and the Courts and Law of South Africa

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How Liberals Lost the Constitution — And How to Win It Back: For decades now, the conservative legal movement has been on a mission to remake this nation’s laws from the bench. And it’s working. On Friday we released an episode with the legal scholar Kate Shaw that walked through case after case showing how conservative Supreme Court majorities have lurched this country’s laws to the right on guns, voting, gerrymandering, regulatory authority, unions, campaign finance and more in the past 20 years. And if the Dobbs majority is any indication, this rightward shift is just getting started. But this conservative legal revolution is only half of the story. The other half is just as important: the collapse of liberal constitutional thinking. Liberals have “lost anything that would animate a positive theory of what the Constitution should be,” says the legal scholar Larry Kramer. “And so they’ve been left with a kind of potpourri of leftover things from the periods when liberals were ascend

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The Single Best Guide I’ve Heard to the Supreme Court’s Rightward Shift: In the past few weeks alone, the Supreme Court has delivered a firestorm of conservative legal victories. States now have far less leeway to restrict gun permits. The right to abortion is no longer constitutionally protected. The Environmental Protection Agency has been kneecapped in its ability to regulate carbon emissions, and by extension, all executive branch agencies will see their power significantly diminished. But to focus only on this particular Supreme Court term is to miss the bigger picture: In the past few decades, conservative court majorities have dragged this country’s laws to the right on almost every issue imaginable. Shelby County v. Holder gutted the Voting Rights Act and opened the door for states to pass restrictive voting laws. Rucho v. Common Cause limited the court’s ability to curb partisan gerrymandering. Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission unleashed a torrent of campaign spe

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Episode 5: John Mulaney

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It’s either the courts or our civilization Ep. 218: In this episode, we unload on the judicial crisis unfolding before our eyes, as the courts issue one civilization-killing opinion after another every few hours. We go through the history of judicial review and distinguish it from judicial supremacy. We explore some solutions for judicial reform, such as mandatory appeals of any lower court ruling on political issues.  Today was also oral argument day for the immigration pause executive order at the Supreme Court. We explain why a 5-4 “victory” won’t be much of a victory in the long-run and how unless the courts are kicked out of immigration, the lower courts will continue doing their thing. There are many reasons why the courts are a sure thing for the Left and why merely “selecting better judges” never changes the arc of the jurisprudential velocity.    Finally, we end with a discussion of Alfie Evans and how, unless we change the power of the courts and the power of government ove

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My Thoughts on Gorsuch and Scotus: A Time to Remain Vigilant Ep 88: In this episode of the Conservative Conscience, Daniel spills his heart out on the state of the courts, what conservatives are looking for, and why Gorsuch, although a solid nominee, still doesn’t inspire full confidence that he is the best we could have done, given GOP control of the Senate.  Then again, with a Senate full of RINOs, who could have scuttled the nomination of someone in the mold of Clarence Thomas, could you really blame Trump? Moreover, the entire process demonstrate why we will never really fix the courts simply by “picking better judges.”  “The capacity of a good judge to do good is nowhere near the capacity of a bad judge to harm our constitution, society, sovereignty, and security.  Even if we had a Clarence Thomas for every Republican SCOTUS pick and for every lower court pick, an impossibility (they don’t exist), we could never combat the malfeasance of the left.  The equivalent on the right o

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Is this what they mean by “Democracy is under attack” ?: Today’s missive looks a bit different from our normal Friday roundup. - As you probably know, a few big rulings came down from the United States Supreme Court over the past 24 hours-- one on gun control, the other on abortion. - Predictably,

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The Courts are Destroying this Country and We are Letting it Happen. Ep117: Between the courts setting immigration policy, national security policy, election law, social policy, redistricting, and criminal justice policy, we no longer live in a republic.  The lower courts, not just the Supreme Court, stand above the other branches of government and the 50 states. But how did this happen?  How can the other branches, which have more robust powers, get rolled by courts created by Congress? In this episode of the Conservative Conscience, we explore the recent immigration rulings and some other cases to demonstrate how the judicial crisis stems from a political crisis whereby the other branches of government are needlessly giving in to the courts.  In fact, as it relates to the Fourth Circuit opinion on Trump’s executive order, the administration is giving the courts even more than they ask for.   At some point, could we really blame the courts for grabbing power that is handed to th

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America Is Unhappy Because of the Epic Failures of Liberalism: Jun 17, 2020

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Critiquing the Critique of the Supreme Court: A Conversation with Ilya Somin

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A politically incorrect look at the constitution: The Constitution of the United States created a representative republic marked by federalism and the separation of powers. Yet numerous federal judges--led by the Supreme Court--have used the Constitution as a blank check to substitute their own views...

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Jeffrey S. Sutton, "Who Decides?: States As Laboratories of Constitutional Experimentation" (Oxford UP, 2021): An interview with Jeffrey S. Sutton

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GUEST EPISODE: What is going on with the Israeli Supreme Court? - with Estee and Avraham Sheinin (The Franciska Show): What is going on with the Israeli Supreme Court?   This discussion delves into the Israeli political system, highlighting the significant role and influence of the Supreme Court. The speakers touch on various topics including the distinction...

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Jeffrey S. Sutton, "Who Decides?: States As Laboratories of Constitutional Experimentation" (Oxford UP, 2021): An interview with Jeffrey S. Sutton

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Jeffrey S. Sutton, "Who Decides?: States As Laboratories of Constitutional Experimentation" (Oxford UP, 2021): An interview with Jeffrey S. Sutton

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The Basic Income Guarantee, Freedom, and the Welfare State with Otto Lehto: What follows is an edited transcript of my conversation with Otto Lehto. Petersen: You're listening to Economics Detective Radio. My guest today is Otto Lehto of King's College London. He is formerly the chair of Finland's Basic Income Network. Otto,...

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Vincent Phillip Muñoz, "Religious Liberty and the American Founding: Natural Rights and the Original Meanings of the First Amendment Religion Clauses" (U Chicago Press, 2022): An interview with Vincent Phillip Muñoz

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Vincent Phillip Muñoz, "Religious Liberty and the American Founding: Natural Rights and the Original Meanings of the First Amendment Religion Clauses" (U Chicago Press, 2022): An interview with Vincent Phillip Muñoz

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Practical Equality: Robert L. Tsai: “It’s important to be practical and hard-nosed about equality and justice.”

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Vincent Phillip Muñoz, "Religious Liberty and the American Founding: Natural Rights and the Original Meanings of the First Amendment Religion Clauses" (U Chicago Press, 2022): An interview with Vincent Phillip Muñoz

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Vincent Phillip Muñoz, "Religious Liberty and the American Founding: Natural Rights and the Original Meanings of the First Amendment Religion Clauses" (U Chicago Press, 2022): An interview with Vincent Phillip Muñoz

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Aaron Tang, "Supreme Hubris: How Overconfidence Is Destroying the Court--And How We Can Fix It" (Yale UP, 2023): An interview with Aaron Tang

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Aaron Tang, "Supreme Hubris: How Overconfidence Is Destroying the Court--And How We Can Fix It" (Yale UP, 2023): An interview with Aaron Tang

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The Supreme Court's Past, Present, and Future: A Conversation with John Yoo

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The Supreme Court's Past, Present, and Future: A Conversation with John Yoo

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The Supreme Court's Past, Present, and Future: A Conversation with John Yoo

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259 The Bill of Rights & How Legal Historians Work (Doing History 4): Law is all around us. And the basis of American Law comes not only from our early American past, but from our founding documents. This episode begins our 4th Doing History series. Over the next four episodes, we’ll explore the early American origins...