The Preamble: Introducing More Perfect Season 4

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🗓️ 4 May 2023

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

To kick off the new season, host Julia Longoria returns to high school, where she first fell in love with the Supreme Court. She was a star on her high school’s nationally-ranked “Constitution team” (read: nerd Super Bowl). For Julia, the Court represented a place where two sides of an issue could be discussed and debated. A lot has changed since then — and public perception around the Court is polarized, to say the least. Which is why we’re taking a cue from high schoolers: this season on More Perfect, we’re questioning everything.

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0:00.0	Shhh!
0:04.0	Listen or support it. WNYC Studios.
0:10.0	I'm Julia Lungoria.
0:12.0	This is more perfect.
0:17.0	The Supreme Court holds a special place in the American imagination.
0:23.0	For a lot of us, it starts...
0:31.0	in high school.
0:32.0	If you feel alright now, eat.
0:34.0	Eat and don't fail over, fail over.
0:37.0	I visited East High, in Denver, Colorado.
0:40.0	You have many constitutions.
0:43.0	To hang out with their Constitution team.
0:45.0	And all of them are named my own Constitution.
0:48.0	These kids have named their Pocket Constitutions.
0:51.0	Okay, versus Connor the Constitution.
0:54.0	I'm sorry.
0:56.0	The team competes in the National We The People Competition.
1:00.0	Where they're asked to argue about the Supreme Court in legalese.
1:09.0	It's like the nerd Super Bowl.
1:13.0	You may begin.
1:16.0	In the 1803 case of Marbury V. Madison, the Supreme Court proclaimed is infatibly the same.
1:21.0	I know this because I too was this cool in high school.
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