New York Times columnist Michelle Goldberg joins us to talk about how the Supreme Court shifting right could lead to the overturn of Roe V. Wade – and about how state legislatures have worked to neutralize the law ever since the court’s 1973 decision.
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David Kaplan, former legal affairs editor of Newsweek, joins us to take a behind-the-scenes look at how the Supreme Court operates – and to talk about times when justices have overstepped their boundaries.
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Betsy West and Julie Cohen join us to talk about Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s journey from diminutive New Yorker to cultural icon.
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Stephen Breyer, associate justice on the U.S. Supreme Court, joins us to talk about his career on the bench – and about his book, “The Court and the World: American Law and the New Global Realities.”
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This hour, we’ll discuss the immigration and affirmative action decisions with SMU professor of law Lackland Bloom. And later in the show, we’ll preview the court’s upcoming decision concerning restrictive abortion laws in Texas with SMU associate professor of law Jessica Dixon Weaver.
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This hour, as we broadcast from NPR Headquarters in Washington, we’ll talk about cases currently being argued before the court with NPR legal affairs correspondent Nina Totenberg and Amy Howe, editor of the SCOTUS Blog.
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This hour, we’ll talk about Scalia with Bryan Garner, the editor-in-chief of Black’s Law Dictionary who was both a collaborator and friend. And we’ll talk about the Supreme Court going forward with Royal Furgeson, dean of the UNT Dallas College of Law.
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This hour, we’ll talk about how the ruling opened the door to further rights for LGBT Americans with Roberta Kaplan, which she writes about in “Then Comes Marriage: United States V. Windsor and the Defeat of DOMA.”
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We’ll talk about what the ruling means for gay couples with Mark Pharris and Victor Holmes, the Plano men who were among the plaintiffs suing to have Texas’ law against same-sex marriage overturned.
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We’ll talk this hour about the legacy of Brown v. Board of Education and the current racial makeup of our schools with the producer of the Frontline documentary Separate and Unequal.
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Legal jargon can be tough to dissect and understand. This hour, we’ll be joined by Byran Garner, editor-in-chief of Black’s Law Dictionary, to talk about what it takes to write clearly about the law.
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Hour 1: The shooting at a Dallas mini-mart shortly after 9/11 changed the lives of two people. New York Times reporter Anand Giridharadas joins the show to recount the incident and aftermath in his new book, “The True American: Murder and Mercy in Texas.”
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