HOST This is Life of the Law, I’m Nancy Mullane. 2017 has been a terribly rough year for thousands of people… There’ve been fires in Northern California and hurricanes and floods in Texas and Puerto…
2017 has been a terrible year for tens of thousands of people. Fires in northern California and record-setting torrential hurricanes and floods in Texas and Puerto Rico have meant that families have lost their homes…
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The 2016 elections are over. But what did we learn from the results? Over the past 11 months, Life of the Law’s team of reporters, editors and scholars have been taking a hard took at…
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The 2016 elections are over. But what did we learn from the results? Over the past 11 months, Life of the Law’s team of reporters, editors and scholars have been taking a hard took at…
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Judges across the country are in a fight to keep their jobs. Unlike judges appointed to federal courts, many state judges run in elections to either get voted onto the court or keep their seat…
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HOST INTRODUCTION: Judges across the country are in a fight to keep their jobs. Unlike judges appointed to federal courts, many state judges have to run in elections to either get voted onto the…
HOST INTRO: This is a really strange election year. We all know what’s happening nationally — it’s Trump v Clinton and the Senate’s up for grabs. But it’s an even weirder election year for judges…
“I am going to research their values, but when it comes to the law, they need to set aside their values. That’s kind of a difficult question. What to research?” -Megan Storie This is a…
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It’s an election year — which is already pretty rough going — and then in February, Justice Antonin Scalia died. And in a split second, there was a rare opening on the US Supreme Court….
“The court has to appear normal to the outside world. Even though things are really abnormal inside, it’s my job to keep a sense of normalcy and not to draw attention to the court.” –Chief…
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