Podcasts by Radiolab Presents: More Perfect

American Pendulum Reprise from 2018-06-26T12:00

What happens when the Supreme Court, the highest court in the land, seems to get it wrong? Korematsu v. United States upheld President Franklin Roosevelt’s internment...

One Nation, Under Money from 2018-01-30T12:00

An unassuming string of 16 words tucked into the Constitution grants Congress extensive power to make laws that impact the entire nation. The Commerce Clause has allowed Congress to interv...

Justice, Interrupted from 2017-12-19T12:00

The rules of oral argument at the Supreme Court are strict: when a justice speaks, the advocate has to shut up.  But a law student noticed that the rules were getting broken again and again  Listen

The Architect from 2017-12-07T12:00

On this episode, we revisit Edward Blum, a self-described “legal entrepreneur” and former stockbroker who has become something of a Supreme Court matchmaker: he takes an issue, finds the p...

Mr. Graham and the Reasonable Man from 2017-11-30T12:00

On a fall afternoon in 1984, Dethorne Graham ran into a convenience store for a bottle of orange juice. Minutes later he was unconscious, injured, and in police handcuffs. In this episode,...

Sex Appeal from 2017-11-23T12:00

“Equal protection of the laws” was granted to all persons by the14th Amendmentin 1868. But for nearly a century after that, wo...

The Hate Debate from 2017-11-06T12:00

Should you be able to say and do whatever you want online? And if not, who should police this?

More Perfect hosts a debate at WNYC's Jerome L. Greene Performance Space about onlin...

Citizens United from 2017-11-02T12:00

Citizens United vs. Federal Election Commissionis one of Listen

Enemy of Mankind from 2017-10-24T12:00

Should the U.S. Supreme Court be the court of the world? In the 18th century, two feuding Frenchmen inspired a one-sentence law that helped launch American human rights litigation into the 20th ...

The Heist from 2017-10-16T12:00

The Supreme Court may not have been conceptualized as a co-equal branch of the federal government, but it became one as a result of the political maneuvering of Chief Justice John Marshall. The ...

The Gun Show from 2017-10-12T12:00

For nearly 200 years of our nation’s history, the Second Amendment was an all-but-forgotten rule about the importance of militias. But in the 1960s and 70s, a movement emerged — led by Bla...

Who’s Gerry and Why Is He So Bad at Drawing Maps? from 2017-10-03T12:00

“It is an invidious, undemocratic, and unconstitutional practice,” Justice John Paul Stevens said of gerrymandering inVieth v. Jubelirer(2004). Politicians have been manipulating distri...

American Pendulum II from 2017-10-02T12:00

In this episode of More Perfect, two families grapple with one terrible Supreme Court decision.Dred Scott v. Sandfordis one of the most infamous cases in Supreme Court history: in 1857,...

American Pendulum I from 2017-10-01T12:00

What happens when the Supreme Court, the highest court in the land, seems to get it wrong?Korematsu v. United Statesis a case that’s been widely denounced and discredited, but it still ...

We're Back from 2017-09-28T00:00

More Perfect, the show that takes you inside the United States Supreme Court, is back on October 2, 2017. 

Sex, race, guns, executive orders: Season two has it all.

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Object Anyway from 2016-07-16T12:00

At the trial of James Batson in 1982, the prosecution eliminated all the black jurors from the jury pool. Batson objected, setting off a complicated discussion about jury selection that would ma...

Kittens Kick The Giggly Blue Robot All Summer from 2016-07-01T12:00

With the recent passing of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, there's been a lot of debate about how much power the Supreme Court should Listen

The Imperfect Plaintiffs from 2016-06-28T12:00

Last week, the court decided one of this term’s blockbuster cases — a case that could affect the future of affirmative action in this country. The plaintiff was Abigail Fisher, a white woman, wh...

More Perfect presents: Adoptive Couple v. Baby Girl from 2016-06-17T12:00

This is the story of a three-year-old girl and the highest court in the land. The Supreme Court case Adoptive Couple v. Baby Girl was a legal battle that entangled a biological father, ...

The Political Thicket from 2016-06-10T12:00

When Chief Justice Earl Warren was asked at the end of his career, “What was the most important case of your tenure?”, there were a lot of answers he could have given. After all, he had presided...

Cruel and Unusual from 2016-06-02T12:00

On the inaugural episode ofMore Perfect, we explore three little words embedded in the 8th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution: “cruel and unusual.” America has long wrestled with this c...

Coming Soon: More Perfect from 2016-05-24T12:00

How does an elite group of nine people shape everything from marriage and money, to safety and sex for an entire nation? From the producers of Radiolab, More Perfect dives into the rarefied worl...