In keeping with our podcast's promise of being "unscheduled and unpredictable," my co-host Dan Epps and I managed to schedule a series of awkwardly timed trips throughout the month of June, which is a really ironic way to run a Supreme Court podcast. But yesterday we did manage to release a long episode, Demokratia, that might be of interest to Conspiracy readers. Here's the summary:
We record our first inter-continental episode, as Will reports in from a visit to Tel Aviv. We then dive in to two of this month's opinions: Haaland v. Brackeen, which rejects a series of challenges to the Indian Child Welfare Act, and United States v. Hansen, which upholds a federal immigration law against a free speech overbreadth challenge.
The title of the episode is the Hebrew word for "democracy," inspired by the experience I summed up in this tweet (though I got the translation wrong):