The U.S. Supreme Court recently heard oral arguments in two lawsuits related to the Biden administration's student loan forgiveness program. Beth Binczik and Luke Herrine (Alabama Law) dissect all the talk about whether any of the plaintiffs had standing, the merits of the cases, and what the Biden administration could do if the Court thwarts the program. 

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Today's Host: Beth Binczik, ACS Director of Policy and Program for Economic Justice

Co-Host: Jeanne Hruska, ACS Senior Advisor for Communications and Strategy

Guest: Luke Herrine, Assistant Professor of Law, Alabama Law

Link: SCOTUS Oral Argument in Biden v. Nebraska

Link: Student Borrower Protection Center

Link: "How the Government Cancelled Betty Ann’s Debts," by Eleni Schirmer

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There are nine judges in our federal judiciary who are not bound by a code of ethics, and they just so happen to be the nine most powerful judges in the country.  Jeanne Hruska speaks with Mark Joseph Stern (Slate) and Chris Kang (Demand Justice) about the U.S. Supreme Court's "just trust us" approach to ethics, the problems this continues to create, and what a code of ethics for our highest court might look like. 

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Today's Host: Jeanne Hruska, Sr Advisor for Communications and Strategy

Guest: Chris Kang, Chief Counsel, Demand Justice

Guest: Mark Joseph Stern, Senior writer at Slate

Link: "Why the Supreme Court Doesn’t Want You to Hear Its Opinion Announcements Live,"  by Dahlia Lithwick and Mark Joseph Stern

Link: "Former Anti-Abortion Leader Alleges Another Supreme Court Breach," by Joki Kantor and Jo Becker

Link: "The Supreme Court Can’t Even Agree on a Code of Ethics for Itself," by Elie Mystal

Link: Statement by Russ Feingold re: “Undue Influence: Operation Higher Court and Politicking at SCOTUS”

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This week, Lindsay Langholz speaks with Jessica Mason Pieklo from Rewire News Group to pull the curtain back on the anti-abortion movement. They discuss the pending lawsuit in federal district court that could result in abortion pills being banned, the concerted effort to target hormonal birth control, and much more.

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Today's Host: Lindsay Langholz, Senior Director for Policy and Program

Guest: Jessica Mason Pieklo, Senior Vice President and Executive Editor, Rewire News Group

Link: "Biden administration braces for ruling that could ban abortion pills,"  by Alice Miranda Ollstein and Adam Cancryn

Link: "Is the Right to Birth Control Next on the Chopping Block?" by Thalia Charles, Rewire News Group

Link: "‘Crisis Pregnancy Centers’ Are Deceptive. Why Aren’t There More Alternatives?" by Garnet Henderson

Link: "Childbirth Is Deadlier for Black Families Even When They’re Rich, Expansive Study Finds," by Claire Cain Miller, Sarah Kliff, and Larry Buchanan

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Passed in the infancy of the world wide web, Section 230 of the 1996 Communications Decency Act has been called the “26 words that created the internet.” On February 21, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in Gonzalez v. Google, the Court's first case about Section 230 and the immunity it confers on providers of interactive computer services. Christopher Wright Durocher speaks with Dariely Rodriguez and David Brody from the Lawyer's Committee for Civil Rights Under the Law about the lawsuit and its potential impact on civil rights protection and censorship of people of color. 

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Today's Host: Christopher Wright Durocher, Vice President of Policy and Program

Guest: Dariely Rodriguez, Deputy Chief Counsel, Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law

Guest: David Brody, Managing Attorney,  Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law

Link: Brief of the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law and Five Civil Rights Organizations as Amici Curiae in Support of Neither Party

Link: "A Supreme Court Case Could Decide the Fate of the Modern Internet," by Lizzie O'Leary

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If you are charged with a crime, you have a right to counsel. But what about a right to counsel if you are at risk of being evicted or losing custody of your children? How might a right to counsel in those situations close what is known as the “justice gap”? Jeanne Hruska speaks with Yael Cannon (Georgetown Law School) and John Pollock (Public Justice Center) to answer these questions and to explore the equity benefits of a civil right to counsel. 

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Today's Host: Lindsay Langholz, Senior Director for Policy and Program

Guest: Yael Cannon, Associate Professor of Law, Georgetown Law

Guest: John Pollock, Attorney and Coordinator, Public Justice Center

Link: National Coalition for a Civil Right to Counsel

Link: National Center for Medical-Legal Partnership

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Is there a correlation between the status of reproductive rights and the health of our democracy? Lindsay Langholz speaks with  Jennifer Weiss-Wolf about this question and her recent article in Ms. Magazine and Rewire Magazine that asks if women's rights are the canary in the coal mine in the backsliding of democracies. 

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Today's Host: Lindsay Langholz, Senior Director for Policy and Program

Guest: Jennifer Weiss-Wolf, Executive Director of the Birnbaum Women’s Leadership Network

Link: "Are Women’s Rights the Canary in the Coal Mine of a Democracy in Decline?" by Jennifer Weiss-Wolf

Link: "Periods Gone Public," by Jennifer Weiss-Wolf

Link: "Abortion Rights Are Essential to Democracy," series by Brennan Center

Link: Birnbaum Women's Leadership Network

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This week, we are talking about Law and the Political Economy, or LPE, which seeks to expose how the market and economy are disproportionately shaped by and to serve powerful interest groups and the economically and politically dominant. Christopher Wright Durocher speaks with Amy Kapczynski to better understand LPE, its development, and how it can be utilized to build an equitable economy.

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Today's Host: Christopher Wright Durocher, Vice President of Policy and Program

Guest: Amy Kapczynski, Professor of Law at Yale Law School

Link: The Law and Political Economy Project

Link: "Building a Law-and-Political-Economy Framework: Beyond the Twentieth-Century Synthesis," by Jedediah Britton-Purdy, David Singh Grewal, Amy Kapczynski & K. Sabeel Rahman

Link: "Reviving Progressive Constitutional Political Economy," co-hosted by ACS and Georgetown University Law Center

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Senate Majority Leader Schumer has said judges will be a priority for the new Senate. If that's the case, there are three changes to the Senate's rules and norms that should be immediately made to expedite confirmations and prevent obstruction of the confirmation process. Jeanne Hruska speaks with ACS President Russ Feingold about those three changes and why the Senate should not wait to make them.

 

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Today's Host: Jeanne Hruska, Sr Advisor for Communications and Strategy

Guest: Russ Feingold, ACS President

Link: "This is no time for games. The Senate needs to amend its rules," by Russ Feingold

Link: Tracking the Diversity of the Federal Bench

Link: "Inside Chuck Schumer's Long Game On Judges," by Jennifer Bendery

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This week, we build on our previous episode about the January 6th Select Committee's final report by taking a closer look at the corresponding investigations underway at the Department of Justice. Jeanne Hruska speaks with returning guest Mary McCord (Institute for Constitutional Advocacy and Protection) about how DOJ investigations operate, what to expect going forward, and the importance of accountability in safeguarding democracy.

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Today's Host: Jeanne Hruska, Sr Advisor for Communications and Strategy

Guest: Mary McCord, Visiting Professor of Law; Executive Director, Institute for Constitutional Advocacy and Protection 

Link: "Dangerous Devotion: Congressional hearing examines threat of white Christian nationalism," (includes testimony from Mary McCord)

Link: The January 6th Select Committee's final report

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The January 6th Select Committee held its last public hearing, released its final report, and officially wrapped up its investigation in December. What should we make of the 800-page report, the Committee's criminal referrals, and the pages and pages of transcripts from the Committee’s interviews? Jeanne Hruska speaks with Joyce Vance about the Committee's imapct and what we should expect from here.

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Today's Host: Jeanne Hruska, Sr Advisor for Communications and Strategy

Guest: Joyce Vance, Distinguished Professor of the Practice of Law, the University of Alabama Law School 

Link: Final Report of the January 6th Select Committee

Link: "Trump’s obstruction of justice criminal referral matters. And prosecutors know it," by Joyce Vance

Link: "White House to Jim Jordan, James Comer: Sorry, but you have to restart your oversight requests," by Heidi Przybyla

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