Justice, Interrupted

More Perfect

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4.8 • 14.7K Ratings

🗓️ 19 December 2017

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

The rules of oral argument at the Supreme Court are strict: when a justice speaks, the advocate has to shut up. But a law student noticed that the rules were getting broken again and again — by men. He and his professor set out to chart an epidemic of interruptions. If women can’t catch a break in the boardroom or the legislature (or at the MTV VMA’s), what’s it going to take to let them speak from the bench of the highest court in the land?

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0:00.0	Hey, this is Chad.
0:01.0	So, more perfect season two is nearing to a close.
0:05.7	We've got this episode you're gonna hear,
0:07.7	one big one after the holidays,
0:09.7	and then we're basically done.
0:11.7	And we start to think about season three.
0:14.0	And I actually wanna ask for your help
0:15.8	as we look forward before I do.
0:19.0	More perfect is an experiment.
0:21.4	You know, it rose organically out of radio lab.
0:24.2	We were doing these stories about the law,
0:26.6	you know, like 60 words.
0:28.3	People were like, do more of that.
0:30.1	So we did.
0:31.5	And ultimately we created this space where, you know,
0:35.1	sort of the idea was, could we take these stupidly massive
0:39.3	topics like guns and gerrymandering and affirmative action,
0:43.9	just to name a few from this season?
0:45.8	It could we cover them in a way that was still kind of human,
0:51.4	surprising and cinematic.
0:54.5	And so we hired this amazing team.
0:57.2	Porters, fact checkers, researchers, composers,
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