Strict Scrutiny
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.
How Will Trump 2.0 Embolden SCOTUS to Gut the Law?
Trump’s Parade of Clowns, Idiots, and Creeps
Making Sense of the Election and What It Means for the Court
Election Anxiety: How the Outcome Could Affect SCOTUS’s Docket
Fifth Circuit Election Madness, a Post-Mortem on Roe, & the War on Drugs
SCOTUS’s Endless Beef with the EPA
"Ghost Guns" are Guns (Duh)
An Unsealed Brief, Ghost Guns, & Antitrust Law as Social Justice
Steel Yourself for a New SCOTUS Term
No Choice but to Stan: A Deep Dive on Solicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar
The Battle for Native Rights & Comstock: The Zombie Law From Hell
Reform, Repression, & Reproductive Rights (Live from Texas!)
Shining a Light on State Supreme Court Races
Project 2025 (cont.): The Fascist Plan to Plunder the Government
Project 2025 (cont.): How to Create a Geopolitical Hellscape & Back to School With Meredith Marks
State of the Uterus: Two Years After the End of Roe
Project 2025 (cont.): DEI for Men With Terrible Personalities
Project 2025: 900 Pages and 100% Deranged
The Hubris and Hackery of Aileen Cannon
We Read Josh Hawley's Book So You Don't Have To
A Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Term
SCOTUS Hands Trump Presidential Immunity
The Supreme Court Makes Its Biggest Power Grab in a Generation
SCOTUS Dodges the Question of Emergency Abortions
SCOTUS Greenlights Government Corruption
A Very DC Saturday Night
SCOTUS's Indefensible Delay in Trump's Immunity Case
Mifepristone Stays on the Market (live from Tribeca!)
The Textualist Case for Mass Shootings
Texas Doubles Down on Life-Threatening Abortion Ban
Flags, Feuds, and Roberts' Rebuff
TRUMP FOUND GUILTY!
Time for Some Bad Decisions
The Alitos Let Their Freak Flag Fly
The Pick-Me Boys and Girls of the Federal Judiciary
Asked and Answered: A Listener Mailbag Episode!
SCOTUS Seems to Normalize Authoritarianism
Will SCOTUS Let January 6 Defendants Off the Hook?
SCOTUS’s Final Sitting of the Term Is A Doozy
Florida Becomes a Battleground for Reproductive Rights
The Absurd Fiction of the Mifepristone Case
The Supreme Court Abortion Pill Case
Texas, Immigration, and Easily Avoidable Chaos
Welcome to Conservative Grievance Week
The TLDR of Trump's Indictments
SCOTUS Restores Trump to the Colorado Ballot, Unanimously (Kind Of)
Content Moderation, Machine Guns, and Trump's Trial Calendar
The Alabama Supreme Court Embraces Fetal Personhood
The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly From State Courts
SCOTUS Has Their Own Theories About Trump’s Eligibility
Why Did Trump Get Denied Immunity?
Does the Constitution Disqualify Trump from Presidency?
E. Jean Carroll and Robbie Kaplan on Trump's "Defamation Rampage"
Who Has Final Authority At The Border?
AITA? SCOTUS Edition
The Legality of Presidents Doing Whatever They Want
Trump's Eligibility, Cash for Clarence, and a Meditation for 2024
New Year, Same Court
Behind the Scenes of Overturning Roe v. Wade
Fake Cases, Fake Facts, Real Implications
Taking a Hatchet to Government Agencies
A Deregulatory Sh*t Show Waiting to Happen
A Code of Misconduct
The Supreme Court's Second Amendment Mess
Doing Government on Twitter
Trump's Legal Defense is Dumb AF
Texas is a Magic 8 Ball for the Country
Big BROTUS Energy
Not Especially Judicious
What Fresh Hell Will This Supreme Court Term Bring?
Will the Government (as we know it) Still Be Constitutional?
Lights, Camera, SCOTUS!
KBJ's Rookie Year
After Affirmative Action
Can These Courts Be Reformed?
The Aesthetic Enjoyment of Other People’s Uteruses
The Rise and Fall of the Voting Rights Act
The Dobbs Decision Hasn't Aged Well
Trump Indicted Again Again
America's First Civil Rights Movement
BONUS: #WITHpod & Strict Scrutiny Crossover
Shining Light on the Shadow Docket
Clarence Thomas's America
How the Federalist Society Took Over
What else can the Supreme Court get away with?
Student Debt Relief Bad, Bigotry Good
The End of Affirmative Action
Is ISL dead? IDK.
A Fear of Too Much Justice
BONUS: This Land on the Indian Child Welfare Act
Good News for the Indian Child Welfare Act
Trump Arraigned and Arrested (BONUS episode)
A Win for Multiracial Democracy
"Not That Bad" is Still Bad!
A Wrecking Ball to Environmental Law
Anti-Abortion Litigation at Warp Speed
You Can Crime If You Want To
Asked and Answered: A Listener Mailbag Episode!
Ethics, Shmethics
What's next for mifepristone?
The Ultimate in Anti-Abortion Exceptionalism
Mifepristone, Mega Yachts, and Maskgate
The Arrest is History
The Supreme Importance of Wisconsin's Election
Is It Infringement If It's Funny?
Fueling the Conservative Grievance Machine
Shielded: How the Police Became Untouchable
Ascertaining the Majorness of Student Debt Relief
Not the Nine Greatest Experts on the Internet
Will the Supreme Court break the Internet?
The Originalist Case for Terrorizing Women
The Engagement: America's Quarter-Century Struggle Over Same-Sex Marriage
Lady Justice: Women, the Law, and the Battle to Save America
Cosplaying an Investigation
Busting Unions and Dodging Opinions
The Long Game to Weaken Workers' Rights
Civil Rights Queen
All I Want For Christmas Is Democracy
How the 303 Creative case threatens to roll back the 21st century
Making Fraud Great Again
Turning Fan Fiction Into Reality
Justice Samuel A-leak-o?
The Uncertain Future of the Indian Child Welfare Act
Affirmative Action Reaction
Open Season on Precedents
Credible: Why We Doubt Accusers and Protect Abusers
Pigs, Prince, and Proven Innocence
Limiting the Inevitable Damage
How SCOTUS Distorts Democracy
Judicial Joyriding
Unprincipled and Inconsistent Voting Rights Shenanigans
Please Pay Attention to State Courts and Constitutions
Debunking the Independent State Legislature Fantasy
Fossil Fuel Rules Everything Around Me
What the Fight After Roe Actually Looks Like
Women Are Not Without Power
Hostility to Mercy
Law & Religion on the Barrett Court
The Family Roe: An American Story
How Mitch Rigged the Courts
Break Glass in Case of Emergency
Smashing Precedents and Making Up Facts
Just how bad is the Supreme Court's EPA decision?
This Maximalist Conservative Supermajority
Roe is dead. Now what?
How SCOTUS gutted our gun laws
Reeking of Impropriety
Queer Supremacy (A Pride Special)
The Newly Constituted and Restless
Allow Me To Retort
Innocence Isn't Enough
The Only Loser is the Public
What's next in a post-Roe world
Stay Mad Like Sam
What the SCOTUS leak could mean for abortion
The Inner Life of Coach Kavanaugh
Coup, But Make It Look Legal
The Non-Existent Establishment Clause
Justice on the Brink
Light Conspiracy Theories
Backwards and in High Heels
Go Down Clutching the Constitution
Living Textualism
Canon Wars
Indian Law Hall of Fame
KBJ, All the Way!
I Don't Wanna
We're Doing S'mores
Speedy Sonia
Party Like It's 1935
Further Erosion
Supreme Ambition
Mensch On The Bench
Comeback Kid
Putting the Tea in Totenberg
BONUS: Strict Scrutiny x Why Is This Happening?
Hot Potato
Putting the F in FDR
Justice for Snowflake
No Laws, Just Vibes
Laboratories of Autocracy
The People's Constitution
Our Favorite Things, 2021
The Marshmallow Experiment
A Uterus, If You Can Keep It
Let's Be Legends
Fourth Dimension Feminism
Sad Girl Autumn
At Liberty: This Fall’s Fight Against Forced Pregnancy
Self-Own Sam
Have They Heard of Frat Houses?
Arbitration Rat
Foreign in a Domestic Sense
Some Geniuses
That’s Just Like, Your Opinion, Man
Fatally Unequal
Watch This Space
Per My Last Email
Latte Liberal
Troll World Tour
Hashtag YOLO
Sounds Legit
Meager Sentences
Messing with Texas
Untitled Dating Show
Flagrantly Unconstitutional
Message Received
Sexual Justice
How Rights Went Wrong
Open Wound
Superminority Status
Born Tired
Anti-Democratic Super Weapon
Justice, Justice Thou Shalt Pursue
Roses & Thorns
Textually Challenged
An Insult to History
Tired of These Fools
Comrade Thomas
Cheerleaders for Democracy
Love and Basketball
Amuse Bouche
State Courts Are Where It's At
Presto!
Fetishistically Textualist
Death Eaters
Siren Songs
Hysterical Lady Brains
When There Are 535
Drained Pool Politics
Burn Book on Purposivism
Barking Goldfish
Right for the Wrong Reasons
Tsunami of Slime
Sausage Fest
Spaceships and Serial Killers
Dear Steve
Amend: The Fight for America
Get to the Punchline
Toddler Logic
Wilding Out
Dude Process
Gold Highways
Dirty Damages
My Name Is Pauli Murray
Rinse & Repeat
The Meme Lives
No Coup For You
Our Favorite Things
When Reality Is Surreal
Normal Scrutiny
Big Whiteboard Energy
Call For Filings!
Unfeathered Discretion
Cute as a Button
Vice Signaling
Unlawful Generally
Yes, Virginia
Hot Mess
We The Women
Big Dog Energy
Not A Mystery
The Red Death
Fire Season
The Women Tell All
In Memoriam
I Want More
Courts of the Conqueror
What Would Chief Justice Roberts Do?
Join Your Conflagrations
RERELEASE: Bonus Pod- Melissa Murray on ACLU's "At Liberty"!
The Civility Alarm
Magical Moment
Five-Dimensional Chess
"Three Generations of Imbeciles"
How To Train Your Killer Whale
Diploma Privilege
Well Played, Sirs
Trollito
Save Your Yarn
Thanks For The Footnote
PODIVERSARY GIVEAWAY
Second Glow HH!
2020 Bingo Card
Josh Hawley's Tears
Carpool Dad
Turd In The Punch Bowl
Blood-Stained Bunny Costume
Made Up Immunities
June First
What's The Mouse Going To Do?
Earth to Nancy
Flushgate
Happy Hour!
Stay Frustrated
Pit of Piranhas
Workplace Misconduct And The Federal Courts
Podapalooza Live Event
Podapalooza Teaser
Stop Trying To Make Democracy Happen
BONUS: Supreme Inequality with Adam Cohen
Build A Bridge
Throwing Elbows
We See You, Steve
The Ghost of Phyllis Schlafly
No Jonathans Or Pauls
BONUS: Jaime Santos on Our Curious Amalgam
Cassandra Moment
Standing Cheese
Criminally Petty
BONUS: Kate Shaw on Why is This Happening? with Chris Hayes
Not Afraid of Garland
Here Come the Generals
Moot and Rally
Reproductive Rights & Justice Stories (Melissa Murray, Kate Shaw, Reva Siegel & Rebecca Traister live at the Brennan Center)
This is Kansas
BONUS: Melissa Murray on ACLU's "At Liberty"
Where My Girls At?
Repeat Players
Rick Perry and the German Policeman
Calm Before the Storm
Eat Your Spinach
Pineapple & Rage
Leg Day
Sipping My Tea