S1, E21: Does The Supreme Court Favor The Rich?
Mar 12, 2020•21 min•Transcript available on Metacast Episode description
The phrase “Equal Justice Under Law” is engraved on the front of the Supreme Court, but a new book by journalist and lawyer Adam Cohen argues that the court’s decisions over the last 50 years have disfavored the poor. Cohen joins this week’s Term to discuss the court’s changing composition, key Supreme Court cases that have impacted the poor and the issue of economic diversity on the bench. Also this week, a new juvenile life sentence case taken up by the justices, and a decision to let the Trump administration continue sending migrants back to Mexico while their immigration court cases proceed.
