
Sign up to save your podcasts
Or


In recent years, the Supreme Court has empowered moneyed interests to wield disproportionate influence in elections, gutted the Voting Rights Act, and upheld President Trump’s travel ban. These decisions fit a troubling, decades-long pattern, argues journalist Adam Cohen. He talks with NYU Law professor Melissa Murray about his new book, Supreme Inequality: The Supreme Court’s Fifty-Year Battle for a More Unjust America, and his finding that since the Nixon era, the Court has done little to protect the rights of the poor and disadvantaged.
By Brennan Center for Justice4.8
4444 ratings
In recent years, the Supreme Court has empowered moneyed interests to wield disproportionate influence in elections, gutted the Voting Rights Act, and upheld President Trump’s travel ban. These decisions fit a troubling, decades-long pattern, argues journalist Adam Cohen. He talks with NYU Law professor Melissa Murray about his new book, Supreme Inequality: The Supreme Court’s Fifty-Year Battle for a More Unjust America, and his finding that since the Nixon era, the Court has done little to protect the rights of the poor and disadvantaged.

6,814 Listeners

25,800 Listeners

9,237 Listeners

8,463 Listeners

4,039 Listeners

3,542 Listeners

431 Listeners

87,533 Listeners

2,373 Listeners

32,329 Listeners

12,636 Listeners

5,868 Listeners

15,967 Listeners

10,770 Listeners

6,207 Listeners