Christopher Wright Durocher is joined by Professor Elisabeth Semel to talk about her recently released report, Guess Who’s Coming to Jury Duty? They discuss how too many courts don’t adequately track prospective jurors’ race and ethnicity and how the failure to take a race-conscious approach to jury selection and service results in the perpetuation of implicit, explicit, and institutional racial bias in our criminal legal system.

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Today's Host: Christopher Wright Durocher, Vice President of Policy and Program

Featured Speaker: Elisabeth Semel, Chancellor’s Clinical Professor of Law and Co-Director of the Death Penalty Clinic, Berkeley Law

Link: Guess Who's Coming to Jury Duty? Berkeley Law Death Penalty Clinic

Link: Whitewashing the Jury Box, Berkeley Law Death Penalty Clinic

Link: Batson v. Kentucky

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This week on Broken Law, we revisit two moving speeches from ACS's 2023 National Convention. Oren Nimni and Sherrilyn Ifill explore the complicity of lawyers in maintaining our unjust legal system and the special responsibility we bear in creating a more just future.

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Today's Host: Lindsay Langholz, Senior Director of Policy and Program, ACS

Featured Speaker: Oren Nimni, Litigation Director, Rights Behind Bars

Featured Speaker: Sherrilyn Ifill, Former President and Director Counsel, NAACP LDF; Vernon E. Jordan, Jr., Esq. Endowed Chair in Civil Rights, Howard University

Link: Register for ACS's 2024 National Convention

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Florida and Arizona state courts recently green lit restrictive abortion bans and the Supreme Court hears two cases that will have significant implications for how doctors and pregnant people navigate the post-Dobbs chaos. Elizabeth Binczik and Lindsay Langholz discuss the latest abortion news and how these developments are interacting with this year's elections.

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Today's Host: Elizabeth Binczik

Guest: Lindsay Langholz, Senior Director of Policy and Program, ACS

Link: Former Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey says the abortion ruling from justices he chose goes too far by Mead Gruver

Link: Mississippi Keeps the Door Firmly Shut on Ballot Initiatives by Daniel Nichanian

Link: The Shadow Medical Community Behind the Attempt to Ban Medication Abortion by Jordan Smith

Link: After Roe Fell: Abortion Laws by State

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The Supreme Court has taken up three cases that arise out of litigants seeking accountability for the violent events of January 6th. This month, the Court will hear arguments on former president Trump's presidential immunity claim and take a look at whether the law used to prosecute many January 6th participants was validly applied in one such prosecution. Lindsay Langholz speaks with Donald Sherman of CREW about what the Court's decision in Trump v. Anderson, the ballot disqualification case, means for this ongoing pursuit of accountability.

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Today's Host: Lindsay Langholz, ACS Sr Director of Policy and Program

Guest: Donald Sherman, Executive Vice President and Chief Counsel, CREW

Link: American Historians' Brief

Link: Childrens' Rights Legal Scholars and Advocates Brief

Link: Colorado lawsuit enforcing Donald Trump's unconstitutional disqualification, CREW

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Artificial Intelligence has the potential to affect how work is performed across industries and, in particular, within media and entertainment. Elizabeth Binczik speaks with Sarah Fowler of SAG-AFTRA to get her thoughts on how AI could impact performers’ work, the current state of the law, and how we might protect performers and people in general from AI’s risks without sacrificing AI’s benefits.

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Today's Host: Elizabeth Binczik, Director of Policy and Program for Economic Justice for ACS

Guest: Sarah Luppen Fowler, Senior Deputy General Counsel, SAG-AFTRA (affiliation included for identification purposes only)

Link: Human Artistry Campaign

Link: CES Tech Talk: SAG-AFTRA Strike's Impact on AI and Hollywood's Future

Link: "Senators draft policy aimed at deep fakes of Drake, Tom Hanks and noncelebrities" by Brian Contreras

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International Women's Day will be celebrated on March 8th. It is a day to celebrate while also taking stock of women's rights here in the United States and abroad. This year, we see a number of countries making significant strides toward reproductive freedom for women while the United States slides backwards. Lindsay Langholz speaks with Julie Suk, author of "After Misogyny: How the Law Fails Women and What to Do About It," about how misogyny informs our legal system and our social structures.

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Today's Host: Lindsay Langholz, ACS Sr Director of Policy and Program

Guest: Julie Suk, Hon. Deborah A. Batts Distinguished Research Scholar and Professor of Law, Fordham University School of Law

Link: After Misogyny: How the Law Fails Women and What to Do About It by Julie Suk

Link: "French Senate votes to enshrine abortion in constitution, a world first" by Karla Adam

Link: "Ireland kickstarts vote on constitution's wording about women and family" by Rory Carroll

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Under the banner of "40 acres and a mule," the movement for reparations for slavery and Jim Crow has gained momentum in recent years, with diverse efforts underway from big states like California and New York to smaller communities like Evanston, Illinois and Asheville, North Carolina. Marcus Hunter, author of the recently published "Radical Reparations: Healing the Soul of a Nation" explains to Taonga Leslie why economic compensation alone will not be sufficient to heal the scar of anti-Black racism and explains the six other forms of compensation that will be necessary to bring about true justice.

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Today's Host: Taonga Leslie

Guest: Marcus Hunter, Scott Waugh Endowed Chair in the Division of the Social Sciences, UCLA

Link: Radical Reparations: Healing the Soul of a Nation by Marcus Hunter

Link: The Case for Reparations by Ta-Nehisi Coates

Link: 40 Acres and a Mule

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The Electoral College has shown significant flaws since its inception. Twice in the 21st Century, the national popular vote winner has not ultimately been elected President. The undemocratic nature of the institution has many asking why our system is built the way it is and what can be done to fix it. In this follow-up to Episode 137 ("Is the ECA Prepared for 2024?"), Lindsay Langholz speaks with Professor Alexander Keyssar about how the Founders designed the process by which we elect presidents, the problems encountered along the way, and the many, many attempts at reform.

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Today's Host: Lindsay Langholz, ACS Sr Director of Policy and Program

Guest: Alexander Keyssar, Harvard Kennedy School

Link: Why Do We Still Have the Electoral College? by Alexander Keyssar

Link: Why the Electoral College is Bad for America by George C. Edwards III

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