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🗓️ 8 October 2020

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

With the recent passing of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, there's been a lot of debate about how much power the Supreme Court should really have. We think of the Supreme Court justices as all-powerful beings, issuing momentous rulings from on high. But they haven’t always been so, you know, supreme. On this episode, we go all the way back to the case that, in a lot of ways, started it all. Support Radiolab by becoming a member today at Radiolab.org/donate.

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0:00.0	Wait, you're listening.
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0:08.5	You're listening to Radio Lab. Radio Lab. From W. N. Y. C. See? Yeah. Oh, Susie Zubi, do-be-dib-dib-d-d-do.
0:21.1	Oh, Susie's on.
0:24.3	Chetty.
0:24.3	Judy, Susie, Susie, Susie, Susie, Susie, Susie, Susie, Susie, Susie, Susie, Susie. Hey. It's so hot under this blanket, chat. I'm sorry. No, okay, start again. All right, since you're under a blanket, we'll be fast. So you are Susie Lechtenberg, and what is your role?
0:37.3	I am the executive producer of Radio Lab.
0:39.4	Yes.
0:39.8	And a few years ago, actually four years ago, 2016, we created another little spin-off show.
0:47.2	Oh, yay, yo-ye, all persons having business before the Honorable, the Supreme Court of the United States,
0:53.9	for it admonished to draw near and give their attention.
0:59.4	Called Moore Perfect and it was about the Supreme Court.
1:04.1	Yes. And the question that we get, and it's a very flattering question, but uncomfortable
1:08.4	one, we get it all the time is what happened to more perfect?
1:12.4	Is it coming back?
1:13.6	Susie, what do you know?
1:14.7	What can you tell us?
1:15.7	I wish I had a satisfying answer to this, but the answer for now is, I don't know.
1:21.7	Never say never, but we have so much to do at Radio Lab that maybe.
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