Substantive due process is now a political issue. Republicans start appointing justices willing to reverse or limit the doctrine responsible for Roe v. Wade. Meanwhile, progressives try to expand interpretations of the 14th amendment to start protecting gay rights. [Originally Aired August 20, 2018]

With substantive due process back in full force, the Supreme Court takes up the issue of abortion and decides its most controversial case in recent history: Roe v. Wade. [Originally Aired August 13, 2018]

Just two years after its historic decision in Griswold v. Connecticut, the Supreme Court decides a landmark case about interracial marriage. While the case could have been decided based only on the Equal Protection clause, the Court went further to answer a more fundamental question: can the government stop a person from Loving someone? [Originally Aired August 6, 2018]

After 30 years without a landmark substantive due process case, the clause makes a roaring comeback in the 1960s when civil rights attorneys revive an old legal doctrine. A new liberty is recognized that will shape the modern world, and it starts by protecting access to contraception for married couples. [Originally Aired August 6, 2018]

The Lochner Era continues well into the 1930s. The Supreme Court was as divided as ever and starts to become a problem for President Franklin Delano Roosevelt and his New Deal policies. So FDR comes up with a drastic plan to free himself and the nation from the nine old men and bring the Lochner Era to a dramatic end. [Originally Aired August 6, 2018]

Justice Rufus Peckham gets his chance to make history by writing a new precedent that would dictate American domestic economic policy for a generation. Hear how the arrest of a baker named Joseph Lochner ushered in the infamous era in constitutional history known as the Lochner Era. [Originally Aired July 31, 2018]

In the pilot, Alex Akhavan traces the origins of the Due Process clause starting with the ratification of the 14th amendment and the birth of a legal debate that continues to divide the Supreme Court today. Is the clause only concerned with fair procedures? Or does it also protect fundamental civil liberties? But the liberties they were talking about the late 1800s might not the ones you think! [Originally Aired July 29, 2018]

Creator and host Alex Akhavan introduces listeners to Season 1 of May It Please The Court, which narrates the riveting events that connect the most important cases in U.S. history.  Each season is one story about one part of the Constitution, and each episode tells its own tale about the context, the personalities, and the legal arguments that changed the country and the world. [Originally Aired July 29, 2018]