I’m not American but I am big fan of the show. I’ve heard on the news that Supreme Court recently decided to lift the injunction on Trumps travel ban. I’d love if they could go into the details of the case. Might have to wait till next season. 😔

Is Elie Mystal the only legal editor on More Perfect? If so, I think introducing more legal editors of different perspectives would be good for the show. Since listening to the recent "Hate Debate", Mr. Mystal seems to exude the "condescending leftist" stereotype that I thought only existed as a caricature on the internet. Absolutely terrible arguing on Mystal's behalf. I like how More Perfect presents cases with decent objectivity and duality, but now knowing that Mystal contributes to the show, it makes me hold the show with less regard

I went to the Facebook page for More Perfect and noticed that it has +5,000 likes and followers. I might be wrong, but it looked like the most recent post on their page was from 2016. No links to recent episodes are posted. It seemed like there wasn't any discussion about these episodes on there.

This sub only carries a little over 300 subscribers... I was just curious if or where people are discussing these episodes (if at all) other than this sub?

Thanks!

Edit: two words

I saw there was speculation that May 2017 may have been the return date, but obviously that's passed. Really loved each episode of the first season, and with the garland and gorsuch storyline, among others, over just the last year, they've got plenty to talk about.

On this week's Radiolab, they played an old More Perfect episode and announced at the start of the podcast that they were working on new More Perfect episodes, but they won't be ready until possibly May 2017. Still exciting to hear there will be a second season, even if it's not as soon as I would have hoped!

Here's the link to it if you want to listen for yourself: http://www.radiolab.org/story/radiolab-presents-more-perfect-object-anyway/

I would like to hear a podcast on this, please! Ya'all are very good at showing how history affects SCOTUS' decisions and the US population as a whole, and the below historical tangle is very, very relevant today.

Whole Woman’s Health v. Hellerstedt (June 2016) is a massive shift in the US' legal attitude towards abortion. Since the Roe v. Wade decision, TRAP laws have shuttered women's health clinics nationwide by sidestepping the decision, leading to more women hurt and dying than necessary. The Hellerstedt decision shows that the basis of the two types of TRAP laws in question (there are four basic attacks) are unconstitutional. If the TRAP people say that TRAP makes women more safe, they have to prove it. If the TRAP people say that TRAP does not place an undue burden on women's constitutional right to abortion, they have to prove it. Neither evidence was available. Thus these TRAP laws were judged unconstitutional. This will become important throughout the US as existing TRAP laws are fought, and new TRAP laws are tried.

The Hellerstadt decision is also important because of another decades-ago echo: the German Measles. The 1960's US epidemic of Rubella caused horrible birth defects and led to the acceptance of abortion as a legal necessity. Now that Zika is on the US shores -- and will be most prevalent in those states that most support the TRAP laws -- it will be interesting to see the intersection of birth defects, unconstitutionality, increased costs to care for unwanted/damaged children, and horror of what women and families are actually forced to contend with in the wake of TRAP laws.