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🗓️ 23 June 2023
⏱️ 74 minutes
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Given reporter Julia Longoria’s long love affair with the Supreme Court, it’s no surprise she’s become the new host of More Perfect (https://zpr.io/4R9fMg9gJ96k), a show all about how the Supreme Court got to be so… supreme. This week, we talk to Julia about her journey to the host seat, and we highlight an episode she produced for Radiolab in 2019 about a specific case: González v. Williams.
In 1903 the U.S. Supreme Court refused to say that Isabel González was a citizen of the United States. Then again, they said, she wasn’t exactly an immigrant either. And they said that the U.S. territory of Puerto Rico, Isabel’s home, was “foreign to the United States in a domestic sense.” Since then, the U.S. has cleared up at least some of the confusion about U.S. territories and the status of people born in them.
But, more than a hundred years later, there is still a U.S. territory that has been left in limbo: American Samoa. It is the only place on Earth that is U.S. soil, but people who are born there are not automatically U.S. citizens. When we visit American Samoa, we discover that there are some pretty surprising reasons why many American Samoans prefer it that way.
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0:00.0 | Okay, so can you tell us who you are? |
0:07.8 | Yes, wait, let me, it's just, I can't do it without backing up on Pro Tools. |
0:12.8 | Hey, Lillimiller here. |
0:14.8 | And Latif. |
0:15.8 | This is Radio Lab and today we are talking to a host, reporter, producer and former member |
0:21.1 | of our Radio Lab family. |
0:24.6 | Recording in two places now I can breathe. |
0:27.0 | Julia, Longoria. |
0:28.0 | Hello. |
0:29.0 | Hey, where should we start this story? |
0:31.3 | I feel like the story of you and this show goes back before the show. |
0:36.8 | Before last week, obviously. |
0:38.4 | It does. |
0:39.4 | Yeah, you know, like, and we're talking to Julia because she's the new host of an old |
0:43.9 | show that spun off of our show a while back, which is drumroll, please. |
0:50.4 | More perfect. |
0:51.4 | That's right. |
0:52.4 | After a six year hiatus. |
0:54.0 | More perfect is back. |
0:55.4 | Oh, yeah. |
0:56.4 | Yeah. |
0:58.4 | The show is now back with new cases and a new team and in some ways a new approach to |
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