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Radiolab Presents: More Perfect - Object Anyway

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Natural Sciences, History, Documentary, Science, Society & Culture

4.644.5K Ratings

🗓️ 22 November 2016

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

At the trial of James Batson in 1982, the prosecution eliminated all the black jurors from the jury pool. Batson objected, setting off a complicated discussion about jury selection that would make its way all the way up to the Supreme Court. On this episode of More Perfect, the Supreme Court ruling that was supposed to prevent race-based jury selection, but may have only made the problem worse. Support Radiolab by becoming a member today at Radiolab.org/donate.

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0:00.0

Wait, you're listening.

0:03.1

Okay.

0:04.4

All right.

0:05.6

Okay.

0:07.0

All right.

0:08.5

You're listening to Radio Lab.

0:11.4

Radio Lab.

0:11.9

From W. N. Y.

0:13.9

C.

0:14.8

See?

0:15.1

Yeah.

0:19.3

Hi, I'm Robert Krollowich.

0:20.8

This is Radio Lab. And this week we're going to do something a little unusual.

0:24.3

I don't know how many of you know that earlier this year we launched a spectacularly successful, I should say, a spin-off from Radio Lab.

0:33.8

Sean Ramos Farm was a correspondent on the show.

0:36.2

I was, yeah.

0:36.9

And tell us what it was called. It was called More Perfect. It was a correspondent on the show. I was, yeah. And tell us what it was called.

1:14.0

It was called More Perfect. It was a podcast about the Supreme Court of the United States. And what about the Supreme Court of the United States? Oh, you know, all of it. Race, class, gender, sex, money, power, religion, how the institution deals with these issues that sometimes divide this nation. Yeah, it's also filled with people's stories and judges just, there's one where, God, a judge nearly went out of his mind. Anyway, it's a good one. That, yeah, it was a good one. And by the way, since so many people have been writing all the time about where, what's going to happen to the more perfectly want more and more perfect, is there, are there going to be any more? I can in, confirm there will be more, more perfect. You can. Expect details, please. Expect when. We're working on a bunch of episodes right now. They should be coming out in the spring of 2017, probably May. Okay. And until then, we would recommend, if you haven't heard all of the ones we did this year, go to radio lab.org, and they're waiting for you.

1:28.5

I know we've put a few of these MorePerfect's on our podcast feed before.

1:31.7

This is the first time for this one on Radio Lab.

1:34.2

One of my favorites.

1:35.0

So here it is from our podcast, More Perfect.

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