Broken Law

By American Constitution Society

Ever feel like the law is stacked against you? It probably is. Broken Law speaks truth to power in discussing how our laws and legal system serve the few at the expense of the many. This is where l

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The podcast currently has 172 episodes available.

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April 01, 2025 Episode 171: Taking DOGE to Court
There have been over 100 lawsuits challenging many of the early actions of the second Trump Administration. Kate Huddleston joins Lindsay Langholz to discuss the details of one, Campaign Legal Center's recently filed lawsuit challenging the Department of Government Efficiency's power grab.
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Host: Lindsay Langholz, Senior Director of Policy and Program
Guest: Kate Huddleston, Senior Legal Counsel, Campaign Legal Center
Link: Litigation Tracker: Legal Challenges to Trump Administration Actions

Link: CLC Sues to Stop Elon Musk and DOGE’s Lawless, Unconstitutional Power Grab, Kate Huddleston & Maha Quadri

Link: Cases and Actions: Japanese American Citizens League v. Musk, Campaign Legal Center
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March 18, 2025 Episode 170: Public Policy and Religious Exemptions Collide Again, and Again, at SCOTUS
The Court is entering its final stretch of oral arguments for the 2024-2025 term and they will be hearing four important cases with significant First Amendment implications, particularly when it comes to the separation of church and state. Hirsh Joshi joins Lindsay Langholz to discuss the tension between public policy goals and religiously motivated exemptions in each of these cases.

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Host: Lindsay Langholz, Senior Director of Policy and Program
Guest: Hirsh Joshi, Attorney and Patrick O’Reiley Legal Fellow, Freedom From Religion Foundation
Link: Episode 155: Livin' On a Prayer As States Push Church Into Classrooms featuring Elizabeth Cavell

Link: We Dissent Podcast

Link: Brief of the Freedom From Religion Foundation as Amicus Curiae in Catholic Charities Bureau v. Wisconsin Labor & Industry Review Commission
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March 04, 2025 Episode 169: We Are in a Constitutional Crisis
More than 950 law scholars from around the country have signed on to a bipartisan letter decrying President Trump’s slew of illegal executive orders and actions. Christopher Wright Durocher talks with principal author and coordinator of the letter Kent Greenfield about what prompted these scholars to speak out and where this crisis may lead.

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Host: Christopher Wright Durocher, Vice President of Policy and Program
Guest: Kent Greenfield, Professor and Dean’s Distinguished Scholar, Boston College Law School
Link: More than 950 Law Scholars Sound Alarm on Constitutional Crisis

Link: “We Believe We Are in a Constitutional Crisis”: Law Professors and Law Teachers Stand Against Administration's Illegal and Unconstitutional Actions

Link: Why Shouldn’t the President Be Able to Fire Who He Wants in the Executive Branch?, by Shirin Ali
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February 18, 2025 Episode 168: Confronting the War on Immigrants
Perhaps more than any other issue, harsh immigration enforcement has defined President Trump’s political career. Since returning to office, the President has moved to end birthright citizenship, authorized ICE to raid schools and churches, and announced plans for mass detention centers on Guantanamo. Professors Ana Raquel Minian and Amanda Frost join Taonga Leslie to help us make sense of the raft of anti-immigrant actions and what they mean for our civil and constitutional rights more broadly.
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Host: Taonga Leslie, Director of Policy and Program for Racial Justice
Guest: Ana Raquel Minian, Associate Professor of History, Stanford University
Guest: Amanda Frost, David Lurton Massee, Jr., Professor of Law, University of Virginia School of Law
Link: Immigrant Defense Project

Link: Welcome.US

Link: How to Talk About Immigration in Divisive Times, by Beth Hallowell
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February 04, 2025 Episode 167: TikTok, Adult Content, and the First Amendment's Big Month at the Court
The Supreme Court recently heard two cases that could have significant implications for the way we live our lives online. Gautam Hans joins Lindsay Langholz to reflect on the arguments made to the Court, how to interpret the TikTok v. Garland decision and chaotic aftermath, and why we should all care about broad restrictions on adult content websites.

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Host: Lindsay Langholz, Senior Director of Policy and Program
Guest: Gautam Hans, Clinical Professor of Law and Director of the Civil Rights and Civil Liberties Clinic, Cornell Law School
Link: Brief of First Amendment and Internet Law Professors, TikTok v. Garland

Link: How Samuel Alito got canceled from the Supreme Court social media majority, by Joan Biskupic

Link: ACS Supreme Court Preview 2024-2025
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January 21, 2025 Episode 166: What's Next for DEI?
From the first Trump Administration's executive order restricting equity and inclusion discussions across the federal government to the Supreme Court's decision in Students for Fair Admissions, the last few years have seen significant legal attacks on diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs. David Glasgow joins Taonga Leslie to discuss the historical context of DEI, the current state of play as we enter a second Trump Administration, and potential opportunities for individuals and companies to be doing more.

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Host: Taonga Leslie, Director of Policy and Program for Racial Justice
Guest: David Glasgow, Executive Director, Meltzer Center for Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging
Link: What Trump’s Second Term Could Mean for DEI, by by Kenji Yoshino, David Glasgow, and Christina Joseph

Link: Advancing DEI Initiative, Meltzer Center for Diversity Inclusion and Belonging

Link: Anti-DEI Legislation Tracker, Council on Social Work Education

Link: American Pride Rises
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January 07, 2025 Episode 165: Judging the Failure of Constitutional Theory
What is constitutional theory and do judges actually need one? Mark Tushnet joins Christopher Wright Durocher to discuss his new book, Who Am I to Judge? Judicial Craft Versus Constitutional Theory, and how reasoned judgment can lead the way forward.

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Host: Christopher Wright Durocher, Vice President of Policy and Program
Guest: Mark Tushnet, William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Law, Emeritus, Harvard Law School
Link: Who Am I to Judge? Judicial Craft Versus Constitutional Theory, by Mark Tushnet

Link: Red, White, and Blue: A Critical Analysis of Constitutional Law, by Mark Tushnet

Link: How to Interpret the Constitution Using a "New Pragmatism," by Mark Kende
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December 24, 2024 Episode 164: Holiday Reading Wishlist
If you are doing some last minute holiday shopping or resolving to read more books in 2025, we have got you covered. Lindsay Langholz and Christopher Wright Durocher share what books are on their wishlist this holiday season, and Valerie Nannery speaks with Joshua Perry about his novel, Seraphim.

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Host: Lindsay Langholz, Senior Director of Policy and Program
Host: Christopher Wright Durocher, Vice President of Policy and Program, ACS
Host: Valerie Nannery, Senior Director of Policy and Program, ACS
Guest: Joshua Perry, Author and Former Connecticut Solicitor General
Link: After Misogyny: How the Law Fails Women and What to Do about It, by Julie Suk

Link: Entitled: How Male Privilege Hurts Women, by Kate Manne

Link: Our Nation at Risk: Election Integrity as a National Security Issue, edited by Julian E. Zelizer and Karen J. Greenberg

Link: Rot and Revival: The History of Constitutional Law in American Political Development, by Anthony Michael Kreis

Link: The Court v. The Voters, by Joshua Douglas

Link: Seraphim, by Joshua Perry

Link: Vision: A Memoir of Blindness and Justice, by Hon. David Tatel

Link: Justice Abandoned: How the Supreme Court Ignored the Constitution and Enabled Mass Incarceration, by Rachel Barkow

Link: Who Am I to Judge?: Judicial Craft versus Constitutional Theory, by Mark Tushnet
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December 10, 2024 Episode 163: Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes: How Trump Will Move To Roll Back Protections Under Federal Law
Bethany Davis Noll, Executive Director of The State Energy & Environmental Impact Center, joins Valerie Nannery to talk about how a second Trump Administration will move to roll back federal regulations, how he harnessed previously low-profile tools to roll back regulations during his first term in office, and how this changed the way the Biden Administration approached regulatory changes.

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Host: Valerie Nannery, Senior Director of Policy and Program at American Constitution Society
Guest: Bethany Davis Noll, Executive Director, State Energy & Environmental Impact Center, NYU School of Law
Link: Regulation in Transition, by Bethany Davis Noll and Richard L. Revesz

Link: Presidential Transitions: The New Rules, by Bethany Davis Noll and Richard L. Revesz

Link: Tired of Winning: Judicial Review of Regulatory Policy in the Trump Era, by Bethany Davis Noll

Link: Special Solicitude" or "Special Hostility?": Where State Standing in Environmental Litigation Stands 17 Years After Massachusetts V. EPA, by Michael J. Myers and Turner Smith

Link: ACS’s Notice & Comment Project
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Production House: Flint Stone Media
Copyright of American Constitution Society 2024.
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Broken Law: About the law, who it serves, and who it doesn’t.
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November 26, 2024 Episode 162: The Threat of a National Abortion Ban in All but Name
How might a Trump administration effectively ban abortion without actually signing a national abortion ban into law? Abortion advocates are sounding the alarm over a 1873 law known as the Comstock Act. Lindsay Langholz joins Christopher Wright Durocher to take a critical look at this zombie law - why it was passed, how it has historically been used, and how an incoming Trump administration might take advantage of this dusty section of the United States Code.

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Host: Christopher Wright Durocher, Vice President of Policy and Program
Guest: Lindsay Langholz, Senior Director of Policy and Program, ACS
Link: Trump Allies Plan New Sweeping Abortion Restrictions, by Lisa Lerer and Elizabeth Dias

Link: Ten Actions Dems Can Take to Protect Abortion Before Trump Takes Office, by Jessica Valenti

Link: Comstockery: How Government Censorship Gave Birth to the Law of Sexual and Reproductive Freedom, and May Again Threaten It, by Reva Siegel and Mary Ziegler
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