Passing Judgment
Episodes
The Ongoing Civil Case: Fraud Allegations, Bias, and Witness Testimonies Against the Former President
03 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In today's episode of the Passing Judgment podcast, we explore the intricacies of the legal realm and examine the most recent developments in the ongo...
The Legal Battle: States vs. Meta - Social Media's Impact on Kids' Mental Health
27 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In today's episode of the Passing Judgment podcast, host Jessica Levinson discusses the recent lawsuits filed by over 3 dozen states against Meta for ...
Women's Engagement in the Law: From Sally Yates to Stacey Abrams, A Journey of Progress
20 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Today, we have an exciting new episode of the Passing Judgment podcast where we're joined by Dahlia Lithwick, senior legal correspondent&nbs...
The Tensions Within the Supreme Court: Gun Rights, Restrictions, and Domestic Violence
13 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In the latest episode of the Passing Judgment podcast, we delve into a variety of legal cases and hot topics currently on the Supreme Court's docket. ...
Understanding the State of Abortion Rights: A Year After the Fall of Roe v Wade
06 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of the Passing Judgment podcast, we're joined by Laura Kusisto, national legal affairs reporter for The Wall Street Journal, to discus...
Ethics and Influence: Exploring Allegations Surrounding Supreme Court Justices
29 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
On the newest episode of the Passing Judgment podcast, we focus on the ethical dilemmas surrounding Supreme Court justices and their affiliations. Joi...
Protecting Democracy: Colorado Lawsuit Seeks to Disqualify Trump from Public Office
22 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This week's episode of the Passing Judgment podcast, we are joined by the president of CREW (Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington), No...
Breaking Down the Hunter Biden Indictment: Gun Charges, Plea Deal Fallout, and Political Backdrop
15 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we dive into the highly publicized indictment of Hunter Biden, son of President Joe Biden. From the charges laid against him to the c...
Inside the Trump Trials: Examining RICO, Election Fraud, and High-Stakes Legal Maneuvers with Rebecca Beitsch
08 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Let's dive into the intriguing world of legal cases involving former President Donald Trump. With a multitude of indictments, federal trials, and stat...
Mifepristone - What Do You Need To Know About The Abortion Pill Litigation?
15 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In a nation of complicated legal machinations, the mifepristone situation is especially complicated. U.S. District Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk last week s...
How Strong Is DA Alvin Bragg's Case Against Trump?
08 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Depending on what you've heard, Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg's case against former President Trump is somewhere between frivolous or airtight. And it is ...
What is it like to cover the Supreme Court? (Guest - David Savage)
08 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Los Angeles Times Supreme Court reporter David Savage joins Jessica on this special episode of Passing Judgment. Savage has been covering the Supreme...
Everything You Need to Know About the $1.6 billion Dominion v Fox Case
05 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The biggest defamation case we've seen in decades is about to go to trial. Dominion Voting Systems, a manufacturer of electronic voting machines and a...
Everything You Need to Know About Trump's Indictment
31 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Former President Trump will be criminally indicted. This is a historic first. But what does it mean legally and politically? Jessica walks through wha...
Why I'm Worried the New York District Attorney Will Indict Trump
19 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
It looks likely that former President Donald Trump will soon be indicted by New York District Attorney Alvin Bragg for his role in the 2016 hush money...
Will the Supreme Court invalidate Pres. Biden’s student loan program? (Guest - Adam Liptak)
04 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Will the Supreme Court conclude that President Biden overstepped his authority when he created a $400 billion student loan forgiveness program? Adam ...
Will the Supreme Court Upend Legal Protections for Tech Companies? (Guest - Michael Macagnone)
25 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This week the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in a case that could change the Internet as we know it. Two cases, one case was brought against YouTu...
Spy Balloons and UFOs (Guest: Mariana Alfaro)
19 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
On January 28th of 2023, what appears to be a Chinese surveillance balloon entered U.S. airspace north of the Aleutian Islands in Alaska. President Bi...
Getting to the Bottom of the SCOTUS Leak. Or Not. (Guest: Steven Mazie)
10 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Something rare happened in the Supreme Court last year: News that the decision in the Dobbs case would scuttle nearly half-century-old abortion protec...
Alec Baldwin Is Charged With Involuntary Manslaughter After the Fatal 2021 Rust Shooting (Guest: Joey Dillon)
05 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Actor Alec Baldwin and armorer Hannah Gutierrez-Reed were recently charged with involuntary manslaughter stemming from a fatal on-set incident that to...
Will the Death of Tyre Nichols Change Policing In America?
28 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Jessica and Joe discuss the death of a young man named Tyre Nichols, who died three days after a violent incident at the hands of Memphis police on Ja...
Time to talk about the debt ceiling, classified docs, and Jan 6 (Guest: Philip Bump)
21 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Philip Bump from The Washington Post joins Jessica to explain the politics behind the debt ceiling debacle, and the discovery of classified documents ...
Is the American Public Capable of Being Persuaded? (Guest - Anand Giridharadas)
12 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Author, columnist, and analyst Anand Giridharadas, stops by Passing Judgment to discuss his latest book -- The Persuaders: At the Front Lines of the F...
How Have Baby Boomers Effected Power and Politics in America? (Guest - Philip Bump)
03 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Journalist Philip Bump's day job is as a journalist and correspondent for The Washington Post, where he writes the weekly newsletter, How to Read This...
Is Trump Constitutionally Disqualified From Holding Office Again?
24 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The short answer -- It's complicated. Jessica explains why members of the House Select Committee on January 6th and others have claimed that Trump is ...
A breaking news edition - The House Select Committee on January 6 Supports Four Criminal Referrals Against Trump
20 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The House Select Committee on January 6, 2021 just met for the last time. As expected, they referred former President Trump to the DOJ for four crimin...
How did Warnock beat Walker? Analysis of the Georgia Runoff (Guest: Greg Bluestein)
10 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Democrats padded their midterm elections win tally this week with another victory in Georgia's runoff election to fill the state's second Senate seat....
The latest from SCOTUS - Freedom of Speech v Freedom from Discrimination
06 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The Supreme Court just heard oral arguments in the biggest free speech case of the term. The case involves a would-be website designer in Colorado and...
Why Won't Trump Get His Special Master? Is the Supreme Court About to Allow State Lawmakers to Undermine Fair Elections In America?
03 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
It is another big week of legal news on two-fer Friday! First, Jessica explains why former President Trump is unlikely to keep the special master he a...
Will Stewart Rhodes Be Convicted of Seditious Conspiracy?
26 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The two-week trial against the founder of the Oath Keepers, Stewart Rhodes, and four others for seditious conspiracy in association with the January 6...
Midterm Elections Update! Who will control the House?
13 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Democrats outperformed expectations in the midterm elections. Jessica gives three reasons why historical trends didn't hold in this election, previews...
What led to the rise of Trump and Trumpism? (Guest: David Corn)
08 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
It's midterm election eve and all is not quiet. With the control of both houses of Congress hanging in the balance, rising inflation, a staunchly cons...
Justice Alito's Roe v. Wade 'Truthiness’ & Trump's Legal Strategy
06 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Jessica gives a quick summary of the breaking legal news of the week, including new revelations in a book that call into question some of Justice Samu...
Will the Supreme Court end affirmative action programs? Probably.
30 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The Supreme Court is hearing two huge cases dealing with the legality of affirmative action programs. Jessica explains the two cases before the court ...
Can the 14th Amendment be used to disqualify elected officials involved in Jan 6? (Guest - Noah Bookbinder)
29 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Jessica speaks with Noah Bookbinder, the President and CEO of Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW). CREW's mission statement ou...
Donald Trump Is Subpoenaed and Deposed, Steve Bannon Is Sentenced
22 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The former president had a no good, very bad legal week. The January 6th Committee served him with a subpoena. He was deposed in a defamation case bro...
It is going to be another huge term for the Supreme Court. Here is why.
16 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
After an earth-shattering term that ended federal protection for abortion in the last term, the 6-3 Supreme Court GOP majority is flexing its power in...
Why did prosecutors drop the murder charges against Adnan Syed?
16 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Jessica gives a quick update on what happened this week when Baltimore prosecutors decided to drop all charges against Adnan Syed, who has spent the l...
What is the latest in case of the classified docs found at Mar-a-Lago? (Guest: Jose Pagliery)
09 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The Daily Beast's political investigations reporter Jose Pagliery joins Jessica to unravel the morass of legal maneuvers by Donald Trump's lawyers.
Will the Supreme Court Weaken Legal Protections Against Discrimination?
30 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The new Supreme Court term is about to begin and the court is set to hear a number of cases that address legal protections from discrimination. Two of...
Trump’s Lawyers Are Busy These Days (Guest: Jan Wolfe of the Wall Street Journal)
24 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Donald Trump's legal team got its special master to review classified documents discovered at Mar-a-Lago in August, but is the situation playing out l...
What Did We Learn from the Latest DOJ Filing? Will Trump Get His Special Master?
31 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Just a few moments ago the Department of Justice submitted a 36-page filing responding to President Trump's claim that a special master should be appo...
What Did We Learn from the Newly Released Affidavit that Supported the Warrant to Search Mar-a-Lago? (Guest: Hugo Lowell)
27 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Hugo Lowell, reporter for The Guardian and regular commentator on MSNBC, joins Jessica to discuss the breaking news of the partial release of the affi...
The Legal Hot Water Is Starting to Boil: Will Trump Face Criminal or Civil Charges?
20 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
There has been a deluge of political and legal news over the past few weeks - especially for midsummer - a typically slow period in the calendar that ...
Trump Takes the Fifth. What Are the Legal Repercussions?
11 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Two more big pieces of legal news this week. First, if Trump is convicted for taking classified documents from the White House, does that mean he is...
The FBI executes a search warrant at Mar-a-Lago, Trump's private residence
09 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This is a breaking news episode of Passing Judgment. The FBI has executed a search warrant at the private residence of former President Trump. What ...
Will Congress protect reproductive rights? (Guest - Rep. Judy Chu)
05 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Representative Judy Chu stops by Passing Judgment to discuss reproductive rights, marriage equality, and gun control. Rep. Chu is the lead sponsor o...
Will Trump face criminal charges? What is next for the Jan. 6th Committee? (Guest: Kyle Cheney of Politico)
27 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Kyle Cheney, senior legal affairs reporter for Politico, joins Jessica to talk about the January 6th Committee, Steve Bannon’s trial for criminal co...
Will states be able to ban same-sex marriage, interracial marriage, or the use of contraception? (Guest: Prof. Cary Franklin)
22 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Prof. Cary Franklin, a professor at UCLA's School of Law and the Director of the Center on Reproductive Health, Law, and Policy and the Williams Insti...
Has the January 6th Committee Accomplished Anything? Will Trump Face Criminal Charges?
16 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The congressional hearings investigating the events of the insurrection at the Capitol on January 6th of 2021 were supposed to end in June, but progre...
Abortion, Guns, & Religious Rights - The Supreme Court Term in Review
07 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This was an epic Supreme Court term. It is not an overstatement to say this was the most consequential term in at least half a century. Joe joins Je...
Is American on the brink of a civil war? (Guest: Stephen Marche)
02 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Jessica speaks with novelist, essayist and cultural commentator Stephen Marche. Stephen is the author of The Next Civil War (2022), The Unmade Bed: T...
The Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade. States are free to ban abortions.
25 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The Supreme Court issued a legal and political earthquake today: abortion is no longer a constitutionally protected right, and this means states have ...
Democracy on the Brink. Why the 1/6 Select Committee Hearing Matters
18 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Hearings of the House Select Committee on the January 6th, 2021 insurrection at the Capitol took place this week. Jessica gets us started with an over...
Will Congress address gun control, disinformation, or reproductive rights? (Guest - Rep. Brad Sherman)
03 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Congressman Brad Sherman has been serving California in congress since 1997, in three different congressional districts - long enough to have endured ...
How will the Supreme Court rule on the big cases this term? (Abortion? Gun control? Religious rights?)
29 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
There are about half a dozen big cases left in the current Supreme Court term that began last October. The 6-3 conservative majority on the Court has ...
Does the Constitution bar someone who supports an insurrection from being a member of Congress?
27 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This week a Court of Appeals held that someone who engages in or supports an insurrection is barred from holding certain public offices. The case invo...
What is next for the January 6th Committee?
14 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Sarah D. Wire covers the Justice Department and national security for the Los Angeles Times with a focus on the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection and domesti...
What does the Supreme Court leak mean for our rights?
07 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
It was a bombshell week of legal news this week. A leaked draft opinion revealed that the Court is poised to eliminate abortion protections that have ...
What does Elon Musk's takeover of Twitter mean for you? And how can we make social media a better place for users? (Guest - David Lazarus)
29 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Our guest is David Lazarus, the "Emmy-winning money guy for KTLA Channel 5" and the former business columnist for the Los Angeles Times. David joins J...
Are abortion pills legal in states that outlaw abortion? Are mask mandates legal? Will Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene be on the next ballot?
23 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
It's a legal and political roundup! Jessica is joined by Joe. Topics include -- abortion pills, and whether women in states that outlaw abortion will...
Should voting be compulsory? (Guests E.J. Dionne and Miles Rapoport)
15 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Should Americans be required to vote? E.J. Dionne and Miles Rapoport argue that they should in their new book, 100% Democracy. Jessica interviews E....
The Senate Votes to Confirm Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court
09 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson will be sworn in as our country's first African American female Supreme Court justice. How will Judge Jackson change the...
Big Court Rulings re the Jan. 6th Committee and Voting Rights
02 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This week federal district court judges from opposite sides of the country came out with two big decisions this week. A California district court judg...
Supreme Court News! Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson's Confirmation Hearings. Justice Clarence Thomas' Possible Conflict of Interest.
26 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Will Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson make history and become the first female African American Supreme Court justice? What happened during the four days o...
What is the Jan 6 Committee up to? How Is Biden Handling the Crisis in Ukraine (Guest: Kyle Cheney of POLITICO)
19 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
POLITICO Senior legal affairs reporter Kyle Cheney covers the legal and political action following the January 6th insurrection at the Capitol. A Cong...
Reproductive Rights, Voting Rights, and the January 6th Committee (It's a legal roundup!)
12 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Another week, another batch of breaking legal news! In this episode Jessica breaks down the latest news from the House Select Committee investigating ...
President Biden gives his second SOTU address. How did he do? (Guest: Joel Payne)
03 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Time to analyze President Joe Biden's SOTU address with CBS political contributor Joel Payne. How did Biden do? Did he pivot and signal a change in h...
Who is Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson (President Biden's nominee to the Supreme Court)?
26 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson will make history later this year when she is expected to become the first Black woman to sit on the Supreme Court United ...
Russia has invaded Ukraine. What will happen next? (Guest: Tom Nichols)
25 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Jessica talks with Tom Nichols, Tom is an expert on international affairs. His work deals with issues involving Russia. He is a contributing writer f...
Sarah Palin loses her defamation case & The Trump family loses their bid to avoid depositions
19 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In a follow-up to last week's coverage of Sarah Palin's defamation lawsuit against the New York Times, Jessica and Joe report that the judge tossed Pa...
Sarah Palin v NYT, Trump's Document Dump, SCOTUS on Voting Rights - It's a Legal Roundup!
12 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
It is our first legal roundup of 2022, and intrepid producer and co-host Joe Armstrong returns. First, former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin took the st...
What is next for the Supreme Court? (Guest: Lawrence Hurley)
04 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Lawrence Hurley has covered the Supreme Court for over two decades, earning a Pulitzer Prize in 2021 for work on a project that examined the doctrine ...
The State of the Senate (Guest: Senator Alex Padilla)
30 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
United States Senator Alex Padilla has spent his lifetime in public service - first as a member of the Los Angeles City Council and eventually as a Ca...
The Biden Administration's Past and Possible Futures (Guest: Molly Hooper)
22 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
CBS political contributor and veteran Capitol Hill reporter Molly Hooper joins Jessica to discuss the major political stories of the week - including ...
A Look At President Biden's First Year (Guest: Joel Payne)
15 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Joel Payne is a Democratic strategist who worked on Hillary Clinton's 2016 campaign as well as a member of the late Senator Harry Reid's staff. He joi...
BEST-OF Passing Judgment GUESTS!
09 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to 2022! This is a special, best-of episode of Passing Judgment, featuring excerpts from some of Jessica's best interviews with guests like Se...
2021 Legal and Political Roundup
31 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Happy New Year Passing Judgment listeners. Jessica and Joe talk through some, but not all, of the biggest legal stories of the year, including the J...
Is the Supreme Court a broken institution? (Guest - Jay Willis)
25 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Jay Willis, editor-in-chief of Balls and Strikes, joins Jessica to talk about the problems plaguing the Supreme Court. They talk through the root caus...
'Justice on the Brink' (Guest - Linda Greenhouse)
17 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Linda Greenhouse joins us to discuss her fascinating new book - Justice on the Brink: The Death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the Rise of Amy Coney Barrett,...
Texas' Abortion Law, Trump's Efforts to Thwart the Jan 6th Committee, the Jussie Smollett Trial & Senator Bob Dole
11 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
It is a week legal and political roundup of the big stories of the week that was. Joe joins Jessica to help explain the Supreme Court's big ruling tod...
Abortion, January 6th, and Gun Control -- Legal Roundup Time
04 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Time for a legal roundup. We cover oral arguments before the Supreme Court in the big abortion case, oral arguments before the DC Circuit regarding ...
The Trial of Ghislaine Maxwell, Jeffrey Epstein's Long-Time Companion, Begins
29 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein died by suicide while incarcerated in August of 2019, but that's not the end of the story. Epstei...
Charlottesville White Supremacists Liable for Substantial Fine in Civil Trial After Deadly Rally
28 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
On August 12th 2017, during two days of protests and counterprotests surrounding the white supremacist “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville,...
Three Men Found Guilty in the Murder of Ahmaud Arbery
25 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In the verdict in the second high-profile court case with a strong racial aspect in just five days, a jury today found three white men, Gregory McMich...
Kyle Rittenhouse is found not guilty on all counts. Did the jury make the right decision?
20 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
During a summer of civil unrest in 2020, a white police officer shot a 29-year-old black man named Jacob Blake in the back in Kenosha, Wisconsin. This...
The Kyle Rittenhouse Trial, Explained
17 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The trial of Kyle Rittenhouse has garnered national attention for a myriad of reasons, and it brings up important questions related to self-defense, v...
Bannon indicted, Trump sues the National Archives, Biden's vaccine mandate is put on hold, and the Supreme Court considers the religious rights of death row inmates
14 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Biden indicted. Why? What is next? Trump wins a (temporary) victory in his effort to prevent the National Archives from releasing documents to the Ho...
(How) Does Power Corrupt? Guest: Dr. Brian Klaas Talks About His New Book, Corruptible
10 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
We've all heard the aphorism from Lord Acton, “Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely." But does it? And if it does, how doe...
Is the Supreme Court Poised to Expand Gun Rights?
04 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
It’s hot button season here on Passing Judgment. We have been closely following the fate of abortion rights with Supreme Court cases out of Texas an...
Will the Supreme Court Let Texas Undermine the Constitution?
02 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This morning the Supreme Court heard almost three hours of oral arguments about who can sue and be sued to block the enforcement of SB8 - Texas’ res...
CA Congressman Devin Nunes Pushes the Envelope with a Defamation Lawsuit
30 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
On today's episode, Jessica and Joe discuss California Congressman Devin Nunes and his defamation lawsuit against journalist Ryan Lizza - and why it m...
Diversifying judges, the Charlottesville civil trial, and did Trump officials help coordinate the 1/6 insurrection?
27 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
President Obama appointed 55 federal appellate judges in two terms - and Donald Trump appointed 54 in just one. Now President Biden is working to nomi...
Texas' abortion law heads to the SCOTUS, Trump is deposed, Bannon is held in contempt
23 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
It is our semi-regular weekly legal roundup! We're going to explain the breaking legal news out of the Supreme Court. It agreed to hear a challenge to...
Is President Biden really plummeting in the polls? - Guest: Dr. Peter Hanson
21 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In today's episode, Jessica talks with Dr. Peter Hanson - the National Poll Director at Grinnell College. Hanson walks us through brand-new polling da...
Will Steve Bannon face criminal penalties for defying a congressional subpoena? Will the Supreme Court be reformed?
16 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Its our legal roundup! Will Steve Bannon face criminal penalties for defying a congressional subpoena? (For more, here is Jessica's MSNBC column). W...
Do Trump and Steven Bannon have to comply with Congressional subpoenas?
13 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
A House Select Committee is investigating the events of January 6th. It is vital that the American public know what exactly happened leading up to, ...
Are religious exemptions for vaccine mandates required?
10 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Vaccine mandates, they're everywhere. Public and private institutions are requiring that workers, students, and customers be vaccinated. But are relig...
Was Texas' abortion law just overturned?
08 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Not exactly. A federal judge just pushed pause in the implementation of Texas' restrictive abortion law. But that ruling is already being appealed. ...
Abortion? Gun control? Religious rights? Freedom of speech? It's our SCOTUS preview!
02 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Jessica previews and explains the big cases the Supreme Court will be hearing this term. What's on the docket for the term that begins on October 4t...