What is Courtside?
PLEASE NOTE WE ARE ON HIATUS UNTIL SUMMER 2024! Courtside is a podcast about the Supreme Court and the law, aimed at translating the law for nonlawyers. Each week begins with a short, humorous discussion of the week’s legal news (because we all need humor to get through it). And then it turns to talking about some landmark case that’s been decided by the U.S. Supreme Court. I’ve argued 50 cases at the Supreme Court, and served as the federal government’s top lawyer. But I want the Court to come alive for you.
For each of the next 10 weeks, I’m going to discuss a single Supreme Court case with one guest, someone who’s not a lawyer and who can translate the case into plain English. So instead of talking about the law with some fusty lawyer named something like Oliver Wendell Holmes, we’re gonna do it with celebrities like John Mulaney and John Legend and Katie Couric. The Supreme Court is increasingly intruding into every aspect of our lives, and the goal here is to unpack that a bit this Summer, and we’ll run through the Summer. In September, the Court comes back and I’ve gotta go back to my day jobs, but if this podcast works out, we’ll do it again next summer.
Oh, by the way, in subsequent episodes, I’ll be releasing bonus material to subscribers from each interview. Given the fabulous guests we are going to have, I don’t want to squander the opportunity to talk to each of them about creativity, resilience, improvisation, and performance.
You’ll see I don’t have any ads on the podcast, that is because substack is pioneering a new model for podcasts, one that is entirely listener supported. For Episode I, I’m making everything available to non-subscribers, so what you see here is the kind of thing you’ll get if you pay for a subscription. I’m donating every dollar I receive from the podcast to charity.
Why subscribe?
Subscribe to get full access to the podcast, as well as a bunch of accompanying materials about the Supreme Court case we are discussing. I’ll make a part of the podcast available each week for free, but the in-depth discussion will be available only to paid subscribers. And…given the creativity and brilliance of our celebrity guests, each week I’m going to do a bonus podcast for paying subscribers, asking each of them to reflect on performance, creativity, achievement under pressure, and the like. Paying subscribers will also get full access to the reading packet for each week’s case. There are no ads on this podcast, we are using a listener-supported model only. And I’m giving 100% of the profit to charity.
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