The Weeds

The messy drama queens of the Supreme Court

While Sarah, Matt and Ezra are away Dara is joined by Dylan Matthews and Andrew Prokop to talk about the friction between how the Supreme Court says it makes its decisions, and the way everyone assumes it really works. Is it time for the Court to stop getting polite and start getting (legal) real(ist)?

References and further reading:

Andrew’s explainer on the gerrymandering decision

The “efficiency gap,” explained by one of its creators 

Dylan on the public-sector union case Janus v. AFSCME

Dara’s piece on Trump v. Hawaii, the travel ban case 

Sonia Sotomayor endorsed legal realism before joining the Court 

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Politics is how people achieve power. Policy is what they do with it. Every week on The Weeds, host Jonquilyn Hill and guests break down the policies that shape our lives, from abortion to financial regulations to affirmative action to housing. We dive deep and we get wonky, but we have fun along the way. New episodes drop every Wednesday.
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