Will SCOTUS Join the GOP War on Mail-in Ballots?

About this episode

Kate and guest co-host Ian Bassin discuss legal news and recent Supreme Court cases affecting mail-in voting and immigration rights.

Kate and guest co-host Ian Bassin of Protect Democracy kick off the show by covering the latest legal news, including developments at the Pentagon and Department of Justice, as well as Trump’s ominous threat to judges. Then, they recap the week’s opinions and oral arguments, focusing on Watson v. RNC, a case that could totally upend mail-in voting. Finally, Elora Mukherjee, director of the Immigrants’ Rights Clinic at Columbia Law School, returns to the show to discuss the asylum case argued before the Court last week, the birthright citizenship case now on deck, and her work with detainees at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center in Texas. Favorite things: Kate: This Is Why Flying Is So Awful , Ganesh Sitaraman (NYT); Why Flying Is Miserable and How to Fix It , Ganesh Sitaraman; The Mixed Marriage Project: A Memoir of Love, Race, and Family , Dorothy Roberts; Law on Trial: An Unlikely Insider Reckons with Our Legal System , Shaun Ossei-Owusu Ian: The World of Yesterday , Stefan Zweig; The Lost Founder: James Wilson and the Forgotten Fight for a People's Constitution , Jesse Wegman; the band Idles , and their song Danny Nedelko Elora: Habeas Corpus for Immigrant Detainees: A…

People in this episode

Host: Kate

Guests: Ian Bassin, Elora Mukherjee

Topics covered

• mail-in voting
• Supreme Court
• asylum cases
• legal news
• immigration rights

Keywords

• SCOTUS
• mail-in ballots
• asylum case
• Trump
• legal news

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Protect Democracy, Columbia Law School

Books & works: This Is Why Flying Is So Awful, Why Flying Is Miserable and How to Fix It, The Mixed Marriage Project: A Memoir of Love, Race, and Family, Law on Trial: An Unlikely Insider Reckons with Our Legal System, The World of Yesterday, The Lost Founder: James Wilson and the Forgotten Fight for a People's Constitution, Danny Nedelko, Habeas Corpus for Immigrant Detainees: A Practical Guide to Filing Habeas Petitions, The U.S. Constitution: A Comprehensive and Annotated Guide for the Modern Reader, Lawless: How the Supreme Court Runs on Conservative Grievance, Fringe Theories, and Bad Vibes

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