Strict Scrutiny
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Latest episode: Mon Nov 10 2025
Strict Scrutiny is a podcast about the United States Supreme Court and the legal culture that surrounds it. Hosted by three badass constitutional law professors-- Leah Litman, Kate Shaw, and Melissa Murray-- Strict Scrutiny provides in-depth, accessible, and irreverent analysis of the Supreme Court and its cases, culture, and personalities. Each week, Leah, Kate, and Melissa break down the latest headlines and biggest legal questions facing our country, emphasizing what it all means for our daily lives. Whether you’re a lawyer or law student, or you’re just here for the messy legal drama, Strict Scrutiny has you covered. New episodes out every Monday… plus bonuses whenever SCOTUS takes away another one of our rights.
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- Nov10Will SCOTUS Say No to Trump’s Tariffs?91mins
- Nov3The Legal Battles Over Trump’s War on Blue Cities77mins
- Oct27Trump’s DOJ Shakedown80mins
- Oct20Will the Voting Rights Act Survive SCOTUS?105mins
- Oct13Will SCOTUS Allow Conversion Therapy for Minors?109mins
- Oct6Something Wicked This Way Comes: A SCOTUS Term Preview93mins
- Sep29The Trump Administration's SCOTUS Winning Streak119mins
- Sep22Looking for Bright Spots in the Courts104mins
- Sep15How SCOTUS is Making Project 2025 a Reality99mins
- Sep8The Lower Courts Punch Up102mins
- Aug25The Shadow Docket Just Won’t Quit114mins
- Aug18The Dubious Legality of Trump's DC Takeover111mins
- Aug11How the GOP is Trying to Steal the 2026 Midterms119mins
- Aug4Stacking the Bench with Creeps & Kooks101mins
- Jul28Can Trump Sue His Way Out of the Epstein Mess?92mins
- Jul21SCOTUS Enables Government Destruction90mins
- Jul14Hunger Games for Legal Hackery98mins
- Jul7A Term for the Rich, the Reactionaries, and the Ruthless99mins
- Jun30SCOTUS Strengthens Conservative War on Education61mins
- Jun27SCOTUS Clears the Way for Trump’s Lawlessness51mins
- Jun26SCOTUS Deals Massive Blow to Health Care Access53mins
- Jun23Ketanji Brown Jackson Sounds the Alarm98mins
- Jun18SCOTUS Upholds Tennessee Ban on Gender-Affirming Care for Minors38mins
- Jun16Can Trump Mobilize the Military Without California's Consent?102mins
- Jun99-0, but Make It Complicated92mins
- Jun2It's Officially Bad Decision Season94mins
- May26A Blockbuster Non-Opinion and a Fascism Grab Bag84mins
- May19Will the Courts Let Trump End Birthright Citizenship?104mins
- May12The Supreme Court’s ‘Lawless’ Era96mins
- May5Will SCOTUS Sign Off on Religious Charter Schools?103mins
- Apr28Can Religious Parents Veto Books in Public Schools?100mins
- Apr21Are Trump Administration Officials in Criminal Contempt?93mins
- Apr14SCOTUS Lets Trump Play Word Games90mins
- Apr7What’s the Future of Planned Parenthood?89mins
- Mar31Can Elon Musk Buy the Wisconsin Supreme Court Race? (With Jon Lovett)94mins
- Mar24Deportations and the Death of Due Process85mins
- Mar17How to Lose a Democracy in 10 Laws (with Elie Mystal)67mins
- Mar10The Conservative Push to Sue the Media Into Oblivion71mins
- Mar3Pod Save the Separation of Powers77mins
- Feb24The Atextual & Illegal Attack on Birthright Citizenship81mins
- Feb17Yes, We’re in a Constitutional Crisis73mins
- Feb10DOGE Runs Amok & Originalism’s Ahistoricism85mins
- Feb3The Lawlessness, Chaos, & Cruelty of Trump 2.071mins
- Jan27Trump’s Onslaught of Executive Orders76mins
- Jan20SCOTUS's Porn Problem73mins
- Jan17SCOTUS Unanimously Upholds TikTok Ban38mins
- Jan13Is TikTok’s Time Up?83mins
- Jan6The Promise and Perils of Presidential Power61mins
- Dec23Our Favorite Things, 202464mins
- Dec16Jingle Bells, the Fifth Circuit Is Hell70mins
- Dec9Leave Trans Kids Alone You Absolute Freaks (with Chase Strangio)69mins
- Dec2Gender-Affirming Care in the Court’s Crosshairs66mins
- Nov25How Will Trump 2.0 Embolden SCOTUS to Gut the Law?79mins
- Nov18Trump’s Parade of Clowns, Idiots, and Creeps63mins
- Nov11Making Sense of the Election and What It Means for the Court52mins
- Nov4Election Anxiety: How the Outcome Could Affect SCOTUS’s Docket50mins
- Oct28Fifth Circuit Election Madness, a Post-Mortem on Roe, & the War on Drugs87mins
- Oct21SCOTUS’s Endless Beef with the EPA64mins
- Oct14"Ghost Guns" are Guns (Duh)47mins
- Oct7An Unsealed Brief, Ghost Guns, & Antitrust Law as Social Justice79mins
- Sep30Steel Yourself for a New SCOTUS Term69mins
- Sep23No Choice but to Stan: A Deep Dive on Solicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar78mins
- Sep16The Battle for Native Rights & Comstock: The Zombie Law From Hell62mins
- Sep9Reform, Repression, & Reproductive Rights (Live from Texas!)58mins
- Sep2Shining a Light on State Supreme Court Races74mins
- Aug26Project 2025 (cont.): The Fascist Plan to Plunder the Government54mins
- Aug19Project 2025 (cont.): How to Create a Geopolitical Hellscape & Back to School With Meredith Marks61mins
- Aug12State of the Uterus: Two Years After the End of Roe62mins
- Aug5Project 2025 (cont.): DEI for Men With Terrible Personalities87mins
- Jul29Project 2025: 900 Pages and 100% Deranged79mins
- Jul22The Hubris and Hackery of Aileen Cannon73mins
- Jul15We Read Josh Hawley's Book So You Don't Have To62mins
- Jul8A Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Term75mins
- Jul1SCOTUS Hands Trump Presidential Immunity46mins
- Jun29The Supreme Court Makes Its Biggest Power Grab in a Generation66mins
- Jun28SCOTUS Dodges the Question of Emergency Abortions62mins
- Jun26SCOTUS Greenlights Government Corruption40mins
- Jun24A Very DC Saturday Night99mins
- Jun20SCOTUS's Indefensible Delay in Trump's Immunity Case33mins
- Jun17Mifepristone Stays on the Market (live from Tribeca!)77mins
- Jun14The Textualist Case for Mass Shootings42mins
- Jun10Texas Doubles Down on Life-Threatening Abortion Ban70mins
- Jun3Flags, Feuds, and Roberts' Rebuff71mins
- May31TRUMP FOUND GUILTY!51mins
- May27Time for Some Bad Decisions82mins
- May20The Alitos Let Their Freak Flag Fly68mins
- May13The Pick-Me Boys and Girls of the Federal Judiciary67mins
- May6Asked and Answered: A Listener Mailbag Episode!70mins
- Apr29SCOTUS Seems to Normalize Authoritarianism83mins
- Apr22Will SCOTUS Let January 6 Defendants Off the Hook?78mins
- Apr15SCOTUS’s Final Sitting of the Term Is A Doozy66mins
- Apr8Florida Becomes a Battleground for Reproductive Rights64mins
- Apr1The Absurd Fiction of the Mifepristone Case76mins
- Mar26The Supreme Court Abortion Pill Case17mins
- Mar25Texas, Immigration, and Easily Avoidable Chaos82mins
- Mar18Welcome to Conservative Grievance Week78mins
- Mar11The TLDR of Trump's Indictments55mins
- Mar5SCOTUS Restores Trump to the Colorado Ballot, Unanimously (Kind Of)48mins
- Mar4Content Moderation, Machine Guns, and Trump's Trial Calendar85mins
- Feb26The Alabama Supreme Court Embraces Fetal Personhood89mins
- Feb19The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly From State Courts77mins
- Feb12SCOTUS Has Their Own Theories About Trump’s Eligibility62mins
- Feb7Why Did Trump Get Denied Immunity?31mins
- Feb5Does the Constitution Disqualify Trump from Presidency?53mins
- Feb2E. Jean Carroll and Robbie Kaplan on Trump's "Defamation Rampage"50mins
- Jan29Who Has Final Authority At The Border?85mins
- Jan22AITA? SCOTUS Edition66mins
- Jan15The Legality of Presidents Doing Whatever They Want67mins
- Jan8Trump's Eligibility, Cash for Clarence, and a Meditation for 202476mins
- Jan1New Year, Same Court61mins
- Dec18Behind the Scenes of Overturning Roe v. Wade86mins
- Dec11Fake Cases, Fake Facts, Real Implications74mins
- Dec4Taking a Hatchet to Government Agencies89mins
- Nov27A Deregulatory Sh*t Show Waiting to Happen63mins
- Nov20A Code of Misconduct78mins
- Nov13The Supreme Court's Second Amendment Mess72mins
- Nov6Doing Government on Twitter68mins
- Oct30Trump's Legal Defense is Dumb AF67mins
- Oct23Texas is a Magic 8 Ball for the Country73mins
- Oct16Big BROTUS Energy68mins
- Oct9Not Especially Judicious81mins
- Oct2What Fresh Hell Will This Supreme Court Term Bring?56mins
- Sep25Will the Government (as we know it) Still Be Constitutional?52mins
- Sep18Lights, Camera, SCOTUS!56mins
- Sep11KBJ's Rookie Year65mins
- Sep4After Affirmative Action46mins
- Aug28Can These Courts Be Reformed?74mins
- Aug21The Aesthetic Enjoyment of Other People’s Uteruses88mins
- Aug14The Rise and Fall of the Voting Rights Act66mins
- Aug7The Dobbs Decision Hasn't Aged Well98mins
- Aug2Trump Indicted Again Again36mins
- Jul31America's First Civil Rights Movement76mins
- Jul26BONUS: #WITHpod & Strict Scrutiny Crossover66mins
- Jul24Shining Light on the Shadow Docket57mins
- Jul17Clarence Thomas's America59mins
- Jul10How the Federalist Society Took Over46mins
- Jul3What else can the Supreme Court get away with?62mins
- Jun30Student Debt Relief Bad, Bigotry Good49mins
- Jun29The End of Affirmative Action62mins
- Jun27Is ISL dead? IDK.54mins
- Jun26A Fear of Too Much Justice68mins
- Jun24BONUS: This Land on the Indian Child Welfare Act44mins
- Jun19Good News for the Indian Child Welfare Act76mins
- Jun14Trump Arraigned and Arrested (BONUS episode)34mins
- Jun12A Win for Multiracial Democracy76mins
- Jun5"Not That Bad" is Still Bad!55mins
- May29A Wrecking Ball to Environmental Law76mins
- May22Anti-Abortion Litigation at Warp Speed62mins
- May15You Can Crime If You Want To73mins
- May8Asked and Answered: A Listener Mailbag Episode!90mins
- May1Ethics, Shmethics66mins
- Apr24What's next for mifepristone?66mins
- Apr17The Ultimate in Anti-Abortion Exceptionalism69mins
- Apr10Mifepristone, Mega Yachts, and Maskgate83mins
- Apr5The Arrest is History36mins
- Apr3The Supreme Importance of Wisconsin's Election68mins
- Mar27Is It Infringement If It's Funny?61mins
- Mar20Fueling the Conservative Grievance Machine67mins
- Mar13Shielded: How the Police Became Untouchable75mins
- Mar6Ascertaining the Majorness of Student Debt Relief78mins
- Feb27Not the Nine Greatest Experts on the Internet62mins
- Feb20Will the Supreme Court break the Internet?62mins
- Feb13The Originalist Case for Terrorizing Women57mins
- Feb6The Engagement: America's Quarter-Century Struggle Over Same-Sex Marriage45mins
- Jan30Lady Justice: Women, the Law, and the Battle to Save America53mins
- Jan23Cosplaying an Investigation70mins
- Jan16Busting Unions and Dodging Opinions66mins
- Jan9The Long Game to Weaken Workers' Rights61mins
- Dec26Civil Rights Queen64mins
- Dec19All I Want For Christmas Is Democracy79mins
- Dec12How the 303 Creative case threatens to roll back the 21st century69mins
- Dec5Making Fraud Great Again75mins
- Nov28Turning Fan Fiction Into Reality70mins
- Nov21Justice Samuel A-leak-o?42mins
- Nov14The Uncertain Future of the Indian Child Welfare Act87mins
- Nov7Affirmative Action Reaction85mins
- Oct30Open Season on Precedents68mins
- Oct24Credible: Why We Doubt Accusers and Protect Abusers49mins
- Oct17Pigs, Prince, and Proven Innocence66mins
- Oct10Limiting the Inevitable Damage69mins
- Oct3How SCOTUS Distorts Democracy67mins
- Sep26Judicial Joyriding70mins
- Sep19Unprincipled and Inconsistent Voting Rights Shenanigans52mins
- Sep12Please Pay Attention to State Courts and Constitutions57mins
- Sep5Debunking the Independent State Legislature Fantasy54mins
- Aug29Fossil Fuel Rules Everything Around Me51mins
- Aug22What the Fight After Roe Actually Looks Like83mins
- Aug15Women Are Not Without Power77mins
- Aug8Hostility to Mercy51mins
- Aug1Law & Religion on the Barrett Court62mins
- Jul25The Family Roe: An American Story57mins
- Jul18How Mitch Rigged the Courts51mins
- Jul11Break Glass in Case of Emergency74mins
- Jul4Smashing Precedents and Making Up Facts63mins
- Jul1Just how bad is the Supreme Court's EPA decision?22mins
- Jun27This Maximalist Conservative Supermajority61mins
- Jun25Roe is dead. Now what?65mins
- Jun24How SCOTUS gutted our gun laws61mins
- Jun20Reeking of Impropriety58mins
- Jun16Queer Supremacy (A Pride Special)66mins
- Jun13The Newly Constituted and Restless48mins
- Jun6Allow Me To Retort63mins
- May30Innocence Isn't Enough70mins
- May23The Only Loser is the Public64mins
- May16What's next in a post-Roe world74mins
- May9Stay Mad Like Sam69mins
- May3What the SCOTUS leak could mean for abortion52mins
- May2The Inner Life of Coach Kavanaugh70mins
- Apr25Coup, But Make It Look Legal61mins
- Apr18The Non-Existent Establishment Clause58mins
- Apr11Justice on the Brink49mins
- Apr4Light Conspiracy Theories57mins
- Mar28Backwards and in High Heels79mins
- Mar21Go Down Clutching the Constitution74mins
- Mar14Living Textualism44mins
- Mar7Canon Wars89mins
- Mar3Indian Law Hall of Fame53mins
- Feb28KBJ, All the Way!65mins
- Feb26I Don't Wanna76mins
- Feb21We're Doing S'mores54mins
- Feb16Speedy Sonia43mins
- Feb14Party Like It's 193552mins
- Feb9Further Erosion33mins
- Feb7Supreme Ambition56mins
- Jan31Mensch On The Bench76mins
- Jan27Comeback Kid35mins
- Jan24Putting the Tea in Totenberg58mins
- Jan19BONUS: Strict Scrutiny x Why Is This Happening?62mins
- Jan17Hot Potato54mins
- Jan14Putting the F in FDR42mins
- Jan10Justice for Snowflake56mins
- Jan8No Laws, Just Vibes74mins
- Jan3Laboratories of Autocracy31mins
- Dec27The People's Constitution43mins
- Dec20Our Favorite Things, 202143mins
- Dec13The Marshmallow Experiment88mins
- Dec10A Uterus, If You Can Keep It41mins
- Dec6Let's Be Legends71mins
- Dec2Fourth Dimension Feminism68mins
- Nov29Sad Girl Autumn54mins
- Nov22At Liberty: This Fall’s Fight Against Forced Pregnancy40mins
- Nov15Self-Own Sam72mins
- Nov11Have They Heard of Frat Houses?31mins
- Nov8Arbitration Rat69mins
- Nov5Foreign in a Domestic Sense28mins
- Nov2Some Geniuses52mins
- Nov1That’s Just Like, Your Opinion, Man68mins
- Oct25Fatally Unequal61mins
- Oct22Watch This Space14mins
- Oct18Per My Last Email67mins
- Oct11Latte Liberal67mins
- Oct4Troll World Tour73mins
- Sep27Hashtag YOLO33mins
- Sep20Sounds Legit46mins
- Sep13Meager Sentences53mins
- Sep11Messing with Texas46mins
- Sep6Untitled Dating Show43mins
- Sep4Flagrantly Unconstitutional45mins
- Sep2Message Received40mins
- Aug30Sexual Justice54mins
- Aug23How Rights Went Wrong54mins
- Aug16Open Wound47mins
- Aug9Superminority Status63mins
- Aug2Born Tired56mins
- Jul26Anti-Democratic Super Weapon50mins
- Jul19Justice, Justice Thou Shalt Pursue53mins
- Jul12Roses & Thorns83mins
- Jul5Textually Challenged85mins
- Jul1An Insult to History67mins
- Jun28Tired of These Fools56mins
- Jun25Comrade Thomas53mins
- Jun24Cheerleaders for Democracy59mins
- Jun21Love and Basketball36mins
- Jun18Amuse Bouche41mins
- Jun15State Courts Are Where It's At40mins
- Jun11Presto!62mins
- Jun4Fetishistically Textualist48mins
- May31Death Eaters64mins
- May26Siren Songs51mins
- May24Hysterical Lady Brains67mins
- May17When There Are 53553mins
- May10Drained Pool Politics51mins
- May3Burn Book on Purposivism74mins
- Apr26Barking Goldfish54mins
- Apr19Right for the Wrong Reasons61mins
- Apr12Tsunami of Slime53mins
- Apr5Sausage Fest66mins
- Mar29Spaceships and Serial Killers71mins
- Mar22Dear Steve53mins
- Mar15Amend: The Fight for America49mins
- Mar8Get to the Punchline58mins
- Mar1Toddler Logic59mins
- Feb22Wilding Out53mins
- Feb15Dude Process53mins
- Feb8Gold Highways53mins
- Feb1Dirty Damages55mins
- Jan25My Name Is Pauli Murray53mins
- Jan20Rinse & Repeat61mins
- Jan11The Meme Lives63mins
- Dec28No Coup For You79mins
- Dec23Our Favorite Things20mins
- Dec21When Reality Is Surreal43mins
- Dec14Normal Scrutiny67mins
- Dec7Big Whiteboard Energy67mins
- Dec6Call For Filings!
- Nov30Unfeathered Discretion61mins
- Nov23Cute as a Button69mins
- Nov16Vice Signaling72mins
- Nov9Unlawful Generally57mins
- Nov2Yes, Virginia59mins
- Oct28Hot Mess37mins
- Oct26We The Women68mins
- Oct19Big Dog Energy60mins
- Oct15Not A Mystery40mins
- Oct12The Red Death68mins
- Oct5Fire Season64mins
- Sep28The Women Tell All52mins
- Sep21In Memoriam56mins
- Sep14I Want More59mins
- Sep7Courts of the Conqueror51mins
- Aug31What Would Chief Justice Roberts Do?60mins
- Aug26Join Your Conflagrations60mins
- Aug24RERELEASE: Bonus Pod- Melissa Murray on ACLU's "At Liberty"!38mins
- Aug17The Civility Alarm51mins
- Aug10Magical Moment58mins
- Aug3Five-Dimensional Chess64mins
- Jul27"Three Generations of Imbeciles"60mins
- Jul20How To Train Your Killer Whale76mins
- Jul13Diploma Privilege38mins
- Jul8Well Played, Sirs31mins
- Jul6Trollito72mins
- Jun30Save Your Yarn24mins
- Jun29Thanks For The Footnote57mins
- Jun24PODIVERSARY GIVEAWAY2mins
- Jun23Second Glow HH!1min
- Jun222020 Bingo Card75mins
- Jun19Josh Hawley's Tears36mins
- Jun18Carpool Dad48mins
- Jun15Turd In The Punch Bowl20mins
- Jun15Blood-Stained Bunny Costume53mins
- Jun8Made Up Immunities66mins
- Jun1June First1min
- May25What's The Mouse Going To Do?51mins
- May18Earth to Nancy81mins
- May11Flushgate75mins
- May5Happy Hour!1min
- May4Stay Frustrated62mins
- Apr30Pit of Piranhas44mins
- Apr27Workplace Misconduct And The Federal Courts61mins
- Apr24Podapalooza Live Event1min
- Apr22Podapalooza Teaser1min
- Apr20Stop Trying To Make Democracy Happen52mins
- Apr13BONUS: Supreme Inequality with Adam Cohen51mins
- Apr6Build A Bridge65mins
- Mar30Throwing Elbows74mins
- Mar23We See You, Steve61mins
- Mar2The Ghost of Phyllis Schlafly78mins
- Feb24No Jonathans Or Pauls70mins
- Feb17BONUS: Jaime Santos on Our Curious Amalgam32mins
- Jan27Cassandra Moment60mins
- Jan20Standing Cheese65mins
- Jan13Criminally Petty61mins
- Dec23BONUS: Kate Shaw on Why is This Happening? with Chris Hayes50mins
- Dec16Not Afraid of Garland68mins
- Dec11Here Come the Generals60mins
- Dec2Moot and Rally73mins
- Nov27Reproductive Rights & Justice Stories (Melissa Murray, Kate Shaw, Reva Siegel & Rebecca Traister live at the Brennan Center)65mins
- Nov18This is Kansas61mins
- Nov11BONUS: Melissa Murray on ACLU's "At Liberty"37mins
- Nov4Where My Girls At?73mins
- Oct28Repeat Players76mins
- Oct21Rick Perry and the German Policeman70mins
- Oct7Calm Before the Storm70mins
- Sep30Eat Your Spinach69mins
- Sep4Pineapple & Rage83mins
- Jul22Leg Day74mins
- Jul1Sipping My Tea82mins
- Jun19Is This Thing On?1min