Radiolab Presents: More Perfect
By WNYC Studios
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Description
Radiolab's More Perfect is a series about the Supreme Court. More Perfect explores how cases deliberated inside the rarefied world of the Supreme Court affect our lives far away from the bench. Produced by WNYC Studios, home of other great podcasts such as Death, Sex & Money, Freakonomics Radio, On the Media, and Here’s the Thing.
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CleanObject Anyway | At the trial of James Batson in 1982, the prosecution eliminated all the black jurors from the jury pool. Batson objected, setting off a complicated discussion about jury selection that would make its way all the way up to the Supreme Court. On this e | 7/15/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanKittens Kick The Giggly Blue Robot All Summer | We tend to think of the Supreme Court justices as all-powerful guardians of the constitution, issuing momentous rulings from on high. They seem at once powerful, and unknowable; all lacy collars and black robes. But they haven’t always been so, you kn | 6/30/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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ExplicitThe Imperfect Plaintiffs | Last week, the court decided one of this term’s blockbuster cases — a case that could affect the future of affirmative action in this country. The plaintiff was Abigail Fisher, a white woman, who said she was rejected from the University of Texas b | 6/27/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanMore Perfect presents: Adoptive Couple v. Baby Girl | This is the story of a three-year-old girl and the highest court in the land. The Supreme Court case Adoptive Couple v. Baby Girl was a legal battle that entangled a biological father, a heart-broken couple, and the tragic history of Native American ch | 6/16/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanThe Political Thicket | When Chief Justice Earl Warren was asked at the end of his career, “What was the most important case of your tenure?”, there were a lot of answers he could have given. After all, he had presided over some of the most important decisions in the court | 6/9/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanCruel and Unusual | On the inaugural episode of More Perfect, we explore three little words embedded in the 8th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution: “cruel and unusual.” America has long wrestled with this concept in the context of our strongest punishment, the death pen | 6/1/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanComing Soon: More Perfect | How does an elite group of nine people shape everything from marriage and money, to safety and sex for an entire nation? From the producers of Radiolab, More Perfect dives into the rarefied world of the Supreme Court to explain how cases deliberated insi | 5/23/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Customer Reviews
Same quality as RadioLab, new topics!
This is fantastic. The first episode had some of the best original reporting I've ever heard on the death penalty and how we got to the point we're at today. Fantastic reporting! Excellent quality!
What more could you want?
These stories are impeccably crafted in the same style we all love from years of RadioLab. Insightful tales of the most under appreciated branch of our government; intelligent legal analysis folded in with heart warming (sometimes wrenching) personal narratives.
Although, there is one big flaw: they call this a "mini-series". Please don't go away!!
"More perfect " is perfect
This podcast is just as entertaining and just as educational as the original Radiolab podcast. Instead science (etc.) This podcast talks about the Supreme Court and is absolutely fabulous.
