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Bonus 199: Pugs on Toilets (Happy New Year's!)
Karen and Steve ring in 2026 by dusting off the podcast equipment and chatting about 2025's professional and personal highs and lows—and what we're…
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199. Four Takeaways From the National Guard Ruling
A deep dive into last Tuesday's ruling in which a 6-3 majority of the Court stopped the Trump administration from deploying federalized National Guard…
Dec 29, 2025
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198. Progressive Judicial Institutionalism
There's important daylight between those who are critical of the present degree of judicial power in the United States in general and those who are…
Dec 22, 2025
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Bonus 197: Necessity, Legality, and the Rule of Law
December 18 is an ignominious anniversary for the rule of law in America—and an opportune moment to reflect upon the responsibility of lawyers and…
Dec 18, 2025
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197. The Supreme Court's Annie Hall Problem
Charges that Supreme Court critics are "schizophrenic" because they're making procedural *and* substantive critiques of the Court's behavior are missing…
Dec 15, 2025
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Bonus 196: What if Constitutional Law is ... Complicated?
Over and over again during Monday's oral argument in the Slaughter case, the Republican appointees waved their hands at the possibility that big…
Dec 11, 2025
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196. Justice Kagan's Texas Redistricting Dissent
As unsurprising as the Supreme Court's intervention in the Texas redistricting case may have been, Justice Kagan's dissent is still a telling indictment…
Dec 8, 2025
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Bonus 195: The Mark Kelly Meshugas
Secretary Hegseth has threatened to court-martial a sitting U.S. Senator for a ... truthful video. Even though Kelly *is* subject to court-martial, such…
Dec 4, 2025
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