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by . KELSEY: So Jefferson, he decides to immediately retaliate. ARI SAVITSKY: They just are left sitting on the desk. ELIE MYSTAL: That made them look the part. But they haven’t always been so, you know, supreme. Archived. More Perfect, we go . CLIP, OBAMA: no good punks! Whew. Radiolab, WNYC Studios’ innovative, top-rated iTunes podcast and public radio show, sheds light on the rarefied world of the Supreme Court with its first ever spin-off, More Perfect. KELSEY: To paraphrase: Marshall, you’re dishonest. Future Perfect explores provocative ideas with the potential to radically improve the world. So the title of this podcast is a mnemonic device to help you remember the names of the justices. JAD: Now with all the background chatter in the election it’s sort of interesting to think about the fact that when it comes to the court and their power, it didn’t have to be this way. The mnemonic is also the title of the More Perfect episode about the landmark Supreme Court case, Marbury v. JAD: Wow, if I were Jefferson I’d be PISSED. ELIE MYSTAL: How he can’t do what he did! KELSEY: Exactly. And yet they both come from Virginia, they both come from the back country. So many times I’d sit in the car while dad went into the library to get a book that I wanted. KELSEY: That’s Ari Savitsky. ARI SAVITSKY: Like for example, he starts this tradition of wearing black robes. Kagan, Kennedy, Thomas, Ginsberg, Briar, Roberts, Alito, Sotomayor, maybe Garland. Today, we’re re-releasing a More Perfect episode that aired just after the... – Luister direct op jouw tablet, telefoon of browser naar Radiolab Presents: More Perfect - The Gun Show van Radiolab - geen downloads nodig. And you did that because Congress passed a law that said that you could come to the Supreme Court first. He says at the time on the court, you had this guy nickname Red Old Bacon face... ARI SAVITSKY: He’s like the kind of like the Charlie Sheen, wild thing in “Major League” type character, KELSEY: Very hot tempered, had a foul mouth. Things get complicated here. How did the Supreme Court get so...supreme? KELSEY: In other words, like you know if the court is split...who cares? If he rules against Jefferson, Jefferson is gonna ignore the court and they’re gonna look weak. To begin… And by the way I will explain the title of this podcast at the end. In fact I think the totally apocryphal story is that Jefferson’s attorney general, like busts in the door at midnight and he is like put down your pen! KELSEY: You didn’t deliver these commissions. Hated by Thomas Jefferson’s party. And then like at the end they have to play the really good team with like the nice professional uniforms, that’s kind of like the judges on the Supreme Court. Radiolab’s More Perfect is a series about the Supreme Court. They were handling like these little tiny rinky dink cases. JAD: Was it like an oversight or something? It’s called 27: The Most Perfect Album and it is a compilation of original music inspired by the amendments to the U.S. Constitution. Marshall knows that if he tells Jefferson to give him the commission, Jefferson is going to ignore him, and then the power of the Supreme Court basically evaporates, KELSEY: Because Elie says, like if you think about it. LINDA MONK: one newspaper refers to it later as a dark, dank potato hole. ARI SAVITSKY: It’s really hard, we do that all the time today, right? ARI SAVITSKY: And you know I mean to their credit like no one gets punched out. And if you just decide you’re not gonna follow the law just because you don’t like the guy who made the law or you don’t think it’s fair, that’s anarchy. You’re supposed to go to a different court and THEN the Supreme Court. AKHIL REDAMAR: An even number. I mean, they started out as these nobodies in a basement, and now they’re these all powerful, you know, priests of the Constitution, CLIP: The Supreme Court of the United States. Is there a legal requirement that the give it to him? It’s an appeals court. ARI SAVITSKY: He files a lawsuit. Either way…, KELSEY: And either way...the Supreme Court maybe disappears forever, ELIE MYSTAL: Marshall needed to find a way to get through this. Share this on Facebook (Opens in a new window), Share this on Twitter (Opens in a new window). This fall, More Perfect is doing something brand new: We’re making an album! PDF. ARI SAVITSKY: It’s very difficult to stop the tendency to view the people that you disagree with as evil… [LAUGHS]. He shows up the next day to take power, AKHIL REDAMAR: And the judiciary is filled with ghosts of presidential appointees past, ARI SAVITSKY: Just a bastion of partisan judges. Radiolab’s More Perfect - “Kittens Kick The Giggly Blue Robot All Summer” Answer these questions before you listen to the podcast: What do you know about the Supreme Court Case - “Marbury v. Madison? KELSEY: No wives, no family, all business, LINDA MONK: He’s trying to create that more perfect union in the judiciary, KELSEY: And just to grease the wheels a little bit. And it--finally it dawns on him, oh the Jefferson administration has it. Well, John Marshall he goes back to his constitution. AKHIL REDAMAR: As the clock is striking midnight on John Adams’ last day…, KELSEY: Adams and his team are in his office, and they’re trying to get these papers out the door, they’re frantically signing them and stamping them. Like as we were talking with our legal editor Elie Mystal and constitutional scholar Linda Monk, they both said like look at what happens after this case. CLIP: High in government, who sit in judgement on many of the great questions before our nation. KELSEY: And in Marshall’s head it’s a resounding. KELSEY: That the Republicans could pull the plug at any minute. What’d you do with them? You need to enable JavaScript to use SoundCloud. ELIE MYSTAL: About how we seamlessly can go from one party to the other party without bloodshed in the streets and whatever. JAD: I just imagine, like, young boys sprinting through the dead of night waving these papers over their head. Consequently, the people who chose to do this. ARI SAVITSKY: The Republicans ran the table in 1800. ARI SAVITSKY: Because, like, it’s a signed commission from the president. ELIE MYSTAL: All of this happens, and I think it’s important for people to understand, all of this happens, in part, because the constitution is embarrassingly silent on what the Supreme Court is, what it should do, how it should be constituted. Crash Course Video - Judicial Review. So it’s article 3, section 2, KELSEY: In the Constitution that says like, basically, you’re not supposed to go to the Supreme Court first. We should at least know their names. JAD: Nine, yes. Would have loved to know what made them leave. KELSEY: He knows if the US is gonna even have a court system and a Supreme Court...he’s gotta beef this team up. Download the iOS Download the Android app Other Related Materials. The fact that it wasn’t formally delivered? JAD ABUMRAD: Hey I’m Jad Abumrad. Bush v. Gore. User 999983862. Is your network connection unstable or browser outdated? ARI SAVITSKY: You’re an official, do your job. KELSEY: The case gets named Marbury v. Madison because James Madison is Jefferson’s secretary of state, who he’s actually suing but. KELSEY: He writes this hundred-something page decision...and in the beginning... ELIE MYSTAL: if you actually read the decision, it’s a lot of pages of telling Jefferson…. ELIE MYSTAL: And this is after the passage of the Civil Rights Act even. Roberts, Alito, Sotomayor, and if Merrick Garland gets on then you’ve also got Garland. So-- and what he does actually ends up being very important, he files a lawsuit directly in the Supreme Court. KELSEY: That’s Elie, Elie Mystal, our legal editor. So like, congrats, you win cousin. CLIP, TRUMP: We need somebody who can take our jobs back because We’re going to hell! Thousands of Native Americans were marched off their lands, LINDA MONK: There’s evidence that they were purposefully moved during the winter so, JAD: So while the court maybe had constitutional authority, it didn’t have actual power. passed a law saying in certain strange circumstances, you can go directly to the Supreme Court. And that’s actually going to make him more powerful. It’s like, still a binding document. Confirm them. KELSEY: The Republicans, Thomas Jefferson’s people, they like small tiny government. Kelly Lau. Isucceed Virtual High School • HISTORY UNKNOWN. So their last names are: Kagan, Kennedy, Thomas, Ginsberg, Briars--sorry Briar, no S there. KELSEY: And he would need to be because he ends up getting in this very famous fight with his very famous second cousin, that would change the course of the American history like forever. Like, how did they get so powerful? Guess you can’t get those positions. KELSEY: Well I mean, OK, so the main reason, the non-gossipy reason, the non-fun reason is because they were in opposite political parties... ELIE MYSTAL: I think the important thing to understand about Marshall is that he’s a party man. AKHIL REDAMAR: I want you, the supreme court, to order. The courts can make these laws, but if the people aren’t willing to go along with it, then what do these laws mean? Kya Potts. JAD: That’s coming up when we continue. KELSEY: This is like where he uses the force. ARI SAVITSKY: He needed to find some way to kick the case. He basically saying to his cousin, OK, you don’t have to give Marbury his commission. The show is nationally syndicated and is available as a podcast.In 2008, live shows were first offered. Jefferson you’re a hack. KELSEY: But when it comes to the Supreme Court, all you get is like a couple of sentences, KELSEY: And you know, that’s kinda the puzzle of this. And in Marshall’s decision he wrote, AKHIL REDAMAR: It’s the emphatically the duty and province of the judicial department to say what the law is, KELSEY: And with those words, he made the court what it is today, CLIP: The US Supreme Court ruled Monday a law allowing Americans born in Jerusalem to list Israel as their place of birth is unconstitutional. They’re going to take over the House, they’re going to take over the presidency. Articles by Timothy, Featured, more perfect, National, Philosophy, Political Science, Politics, Weverse Science As A Human Right: Data-driven Governance 6 Comments Radiolab was founded by Jad Abumrad and Robert Krulwich in 2002.Now Radiolab is hosted by Jad Abumrad, Latif Nasser and Lulu Miller Hot New Top Rising. He’s thinking like, oh I’ve lost the house, I’ve lost the White House. And this is a key reason WHY we’ve gotten to that point because the decisions of the past administration still hold value even when that administration is kicked out of office, kind of overthrown by popular vote, their decisions still have sway, still have legal force. They were like--. (Don’t look it up, I just want to see what you know.) I created CLIP: Get over the possible corrupting of the American Presidential system? And so he’s retreating. Who are like really smart, but like a motley crew that isn’t organized. JAD ABUMRAD: Hey I’m Jad Abumrad. In fact they were, LINDA MONK: Meeting in the basement of congress, KELSEY: That’s Linda Monk, constitutional scholar. We all know that whoever they are, they’re incredibly powerful people, JAD: That they can boom, instantly strike down a law that took years to pass, CLIP, OBAMA: The Supreme Court reversed a century of law that I believe will open the floodgates, JAD: They can undo Executive orders, they can even change like these long-held definitions, like what is a person… what makes a marriage… They can even decide an election. The album, and the new season of the podcast, drop September 18. Parton wrote a song for us (!) Posts Discussions. And Even before Marshal hits the court, ARI SAVITSKY: they beef and they beef and they beef. KELSEY: So basically, Marshall is kinda stuck. But he basically he tells Marbury, the plaintiff... ARI SAVITSKY: You came in, and you came to the Supreme Court first. I thoroughly recommend that you listen to the podcast episode called “Kittens Kick the Giggly Blue Robot All Summer” from RadioLab’s More Perfect podcast. Article 3 says, Article 3 of our United States Constitution says, there shall be a Supreme Court. Back then. Jefferson knows this. Takes force. KELSEY: Well so the thing that he does, it’s like the most jedi master-ish thing ever. KELSEY: Marshall is sent away for over a year... there’s no full supreme court meetings… And when he comes back...and it’s very clear to him, that the Supreme Court it’s on life support. Artists like Dolly Parton, Devendra Banhart, They Might Be Giants, Kash Doll - and so many more - made music just for us! Sorry. about the 19th Amendment and women (finally) getting the right to vote. More Perfect Podcast - Marbury v. Madison by mooresclassroom published on 2016-11-07T23:25:31Z. If they have something to say about it, they can come to South Carolina, sit on my farm and talk to me. OK, so what happened in Marbury v. Madison? Radiolab's More Perfect Podcast Listening Guide - Marbury Vs Madison. KELSEY: Which we’ll get to in a second but in the meantime, Adams has just a few days left in his presidency, he’s like frantically trying to get these judges in. We also found when we went out a lot of people had no idea how many justices there are, CLIP: I do not know how many Supreme Court justices there are. But how did we actually get to that point? What’s their--. KELSEY: And that they were sitting on a desk somewhere, KELSEY: And how they thought it wasn’t a big deal, ARI SAVITSKY: Because it’s still a binding document. More Perfect explores how cases inside the rarefied world of the Supreme Court affect our lives far away from the bench. Clerical error? Our Sad Supreme Court Whether it’s a child’s rebellion, infertility, chronic illness, … Having Trouble Subscribing to this Podcast. KELSEY: And for a while, things are going well for his party. 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