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Emily Bazelon is a staff writer for the New York Times Magazine and a senior research fellow at Yale Law School. A former senior editor at Slate.com, she is the author of Sticks and Stones: Defeating the Culture of Bullying and Rediscovering the Power of Empathy and Character.
Press Play Special: Justice Kennedy’s retirement The Supreme Court is about to get more conservative. Justice Anthony Kennedy is retiring at the end of July. Although nominated by Ronald Reagan, he was the court’s swing vote. Trump’s next nominee will be firmly on the right.
The winners and losers of 2017 The LRC panel names the year's winners and losers, revisits their Inauguration Day predictions, and then makes more predictions for 2018.
Is the sexual harassment backlash coming? This morning, the Los Angeles Times revealed it’s planning to publish complaints from six women against Assemblyman Raul Bocanegra. Other recently accused men include New York Times reporter Glenn Thrush, actor Jeffrey Tambor, and music producer Russell Simmons. The accusations range from rape to inappropriate comments. Many people see a watershed moment here. But could there be a backlash?
Supreme Court closes the term allowing partial travel ban Newest SCOTUS Justice Neil Gorsuch makes himself known.
Young woman found guilty of manslaughter for encouraging boyfriend to kill himself Conrad Roy III killed himself in a parking lot by hooking up a water pump that emitted carbon monoxide to the cab of his truck. He was texting his 17-year-old girlfriend Michelle Carter, who repeatedly urged him to go through with with killing himself. He was found dead the next day.
Will President Trump be investigated for obstruction of justice? During his testimony before the Senate Intelligence Committee, former FBI Director James Comey accused President Trump and other White House officials of lying when they said the FBI was in disarray and its staff lost confidence in him. Trump’s lawyer said Comey was wrong -- that the president never asked for his loyalty, and never asked him to back off the investigation into former NSA director Michael Flynn.
How Jeff Sessions wants to shape American justice Jeff Sessions and Steve Bannon helped Donald Trump form his nationalist agenda -- including the rhetoric around immigrants, vision of cities as riddled with crime. We look at what Sessions’ goals are as attorney general, and how he’ll approach them if he survives the investigation into Russian meddling in the election.
Trump's cabinet emerges, and a rise in bullying Will Senate Republicans rein Trump in?
Campus Racial Uproar The president of the University of MIssouri is stepping down after weeks of protests over his handling of racist incidents on campus. Meanwhile, a thousand miles away at Yale, racial tensions are boiling over on that campus, too. The tipping point came last week with a fight about how administrators addressed culturally insensitive Halloween costumes. Is it cultural deafness or political correctness?
Planned Parenthood Video Sting Reignites the Abortion Debate In the past two weeks the Center for Medical Progress, a group headed by longtime anti-abortion activist David Daleiden, has released two videos of Planned Parenthood officials discussing the price and methods for providing fetal tissue from abortions for medical research. It reportedly has thousands of hours of footage from covert recordings gathered over the past two and a half years. Planned Parenthood calls it a deceptive campaign by abortion foes to misrepresent their work and discredit them. But the undercover sting has already prompted congressional and state investigations into Planned Parenthood's practices and has re-positioned abortion as a key issue Republican presidential hopefuls use to capture the party's conservative base.
What Happens When Judges Change Their Minds? Now that raisins and Spider-Man are out of the way, the Supreme Court can focus on some of the bigger cases to ever grace the docket. From gay marriage to the death penalty to healthcare, the justices are seeking to answer some of the biggest questions of our time. But what if they get it wrong? What happens if years later, they find that they erred in their judgment? Madeleine speaks with Emily Bazelon of the New York Times Magazine, who wrote this week about what happens when judges change their minds.
What Do We Owe Victims of Wrongful Convictions? Glenn Ford spent 30 years on death row in Louisiana's Angola prison — convicted for a murder he didn't commit, but now that he's been exonerated he still can't get the compensation state law says he's entitled to. Last month, prosecutor Marty Stroud told NPR he felt guilty for his role in the wrongful conviction. "I want to apologize to Mr Ford. I would wish him well and wish him the best in efforts for compensation and to be compensated for the years he's been deprived of... I believe it's a horror story from beginning to end, and I played a part in that." Emily Bazelon is staff writer for the New York Times and Truman Capote fellow at Yale Law School.
Trump's new look at civil rights and global warming President Trump is reportedly ready to pull the US out of the Paris Agreement on Climate Change. We look at the possible consequences. On the second half of the program, we hear about cuts in Obama-Era civil rights programs called for by the Trump Administration's first budget plan.
Human Rights in the era of Donald Trump President Trump’s UN Ambassador, Nikki Haley, said today the US might pull out of the United Nations’ Human Rights Council. Serious violators of human rights are members of the Council itself–and a US resignation could make things worse. Later on today’s show, now that he’s into his second term, comedian turned US Senator Al Franken is telling jokes again.
Will the Senate write a healthcare bill in secret? While Democrats and Republicans argue White House relations with Russia, another question is being decided behind closed doors: who gets help buying health insurance and who doesn't? We hear how the pros and cons are being shrouded in secrecy.
The Trump agenda: where's the beef? President Trump says big things are happening. After celebrating a House bill on health care, he doesn’t yet have Senate agreement. With James Comey’s public testimony scheduled tomorrow, the President today tweeted his selection of a new FBI Director. Is the Chief Executive all style and no substance? Later, terror attacks in Iran and conflicting claims about who’s behind them.
