The Conservative Push to Sue the Media Into Oblivion

<p>After covering the latest goings-on in Trumpland, Melissa and Kate turn to this week’s SCOTUS arguments and opinions, touching on the Court’s decision to weaken the EPA’s clean water regulations and Mexico’s bid to hold American gun manufacturers liable for cartel violence. In the second part of the episode, Kate and Melissa talk with David Enrich of the New York Times about his new book, <a href="https://bookshop.org/p/books/murder-the-truth-threats-intimidation-and-a-secret-campaign-to-protect-the-powerful-david-enrich/21543213"><i>Murder the Truth: Fear, the First Amendment, and a Secret Campaign to Protect the Powerful</i></a>. </p><p>Hosts’ favorite things this week: </p><ul>

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<strong>Melissa:</strong> <a href="https://bookshop.org/p/books/never-caught-the-washingtons-relentless-pursuit-of-their-runaway-slave-ona-judge-erica-armstrong-dunbar/6679265"><i>Never Caught: The Washingtons' Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge</i></a> by Erica Armstrong Dunbar; <a href="https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4934035"><i>Due Care in a Conservative Court</i></a> by Hila Keren<i> </i>(forthcoming in the Wisconsin Law Review); With Love, Meghan (Netflix)</li>

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<strong>Kate:</strong> <i>Towards A New Equal Protection Paradigm</i> by Issa Kohler Hausmann, co-authored with Kevin Yang and Charlotte Lawrence; <i>Severance (</i>Apple TV+)</li>

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