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Deadlocked: How America Shaped the Supreme Court Season 1 Episodes
Season 1 Episode Guide
4 Episodes 2023 - 2023
Episode 1
The Hearts of Men Can Be Changed
Fri, Sep 22, 202357 mins
In the 1950s and 60s, Thurgood Marshall fights to tear down the segregationist system and uses the law to build a more just society, with the help of a Supreme Court led by Chief Justice Earl Warren. It's an era of progressive decisions that expands the rights of minorities, criminal defendants, and the poor, as the Supreme Court's role in American life becomes increasingly prominent and bitterly contested.
Episode 2
A Conservative Revolution
Fri, Sep 29, 202356 mins
In the 1970s and 1980s, a new conservative legal and political movement emerges as a backlash to the Warren Court and the later Roe v. Wade decision. This quickly becomes an increasingly influential coalition that sets the direction of the Court and the country over the ensuing decades.
Episode 3
The Rule of Five
Fri, Oct 6, 2023
Most consequential cases of the 1990s rest with the decisive swing votes of Justices O'Connor and Kennedy-both nominated by Republican presidents and sometimes siding with the liberal bloc.
Episode 4
Crisis of Legitimacy
Fri, Oct 13, 2023
Following the Senate blocking of Merrick Garland's nomination and the subsequent confirmations of Justices Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, and Barrett in the era of Trump, the Court moves decisively to the right. With highly controversial rulings such as the Dobbs decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, the Court of the 2020s increasingly faces charges of extreme partisanship as its relatively young, deeply conservative majority appears set to shape American life over the coming decades.
