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Castle Doctrine Differences

Episode Date: August 6, 2020

People who watch and comment on politics do so very differently than campaign operatives do. Campaigns use voter scores and voter modeling—which is es...

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12 Angry Dinosaurs

Episode Date: August 4, 2020

Rewind millions of years and a dinosaur-killing asteroid is racing toward Earth at breakneck speed. But what exactly happened in the immediate afterma...

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That Escalated Quickly

Episode Date: July 23, 2020

A federal judge ordered the release of Trump’s former attorney Michael Cohen from prison on Thursday. On July 9, Cohen and his lawyer went into the U....

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A Supreme Court Odyssey

Episode Date: July 20, 2020

The 2019-2020 Supreme Court term was quite the spectacle: the court canceled its March and April argument sessions, held oral arguments by telephone f...

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Crimes, Plural

Episode Date: July 13, 2020

With Joe Biden’s popularity rising in battleground states (according to several recent polls), Democratic lobbyists and party officials are urging the...

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Not in Oklahoma Anymore

Episode Date: July 9, 2020

The Supreme Court wrapped up its term today with an opinion on what counts as American Indian tribal lands and two related cases about the president’s...

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Dial S for Severability

Episode Date: July 7, 2020

As we near the end of another Supreme Court term, speculation abounds over a Court retirement. Would the resulting nomination battle be more or less c...

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Supreme Court Did What?

Episode Date: July 3, 2020

The Supreme Court denies cert to an abortion case, grants cert to a case over Mueller's secret evidence, and the Biden and Trump campaigns are lawyeri...

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The Cheese Stands Alone

Episode Date: June 29, 2020

David and Sarah discuss another big day at the Supreme Court, from the court's decision to strike down a Louisiana abortion law to its ruling on the C...

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What Would James Madison Do?

Episode Date: June 22, 2020

David and Sarah discuss the president's rally in Tulsa, the firing of the U.S. attorney in New York, the lawsuit over John Bolton's book, and they pro...

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Arbitrary and Capricious

Episode Date: June 18, 2020

David and Sarah discuss the Supreme Court's ruling that blocks the Trump administration from ending DACA for now, return to their discussion over the...

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'Twas the Night Before Brisket

Episode Date: June 11, 2020

It's Brisket Eve and David and Sarah are celebrating by diving into the latest polls on the protests around the country, the legal weeds of Confederat...

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The Sound of Reform

Episode Date: June 8, 2020

David and Sarah discuss calls by protesters to "defund the police," ideas to reform police departments from no-knock raids to police unions, incorpora...