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The episode is available now on Apple Podcasts, Spotify and MsMagazine.com.
On the Issues with Michele Goodwin is a popular, issues and policy-focused podcast featuring feminist analysis, insightful conversations and exciting guests. This is the first podcast from Ms. magazine, a legacy feminist publication. In each episode, host Dr. Michele Goodwin and special guests will tackle the most compelling issues of our times, centering feminist concerns about rebuilding our nation and advancing the promise of equality.
A new episode—The Supreme Court is Back in Session. What Fresh Hell Awaits? (with Steve Vladeck)—is available now on Apple Podcasts, Spotify and MsMagazine.com.
This last Supreme Court term was harrowing—from momentous merits decisions about the First Amendment, parental rights, trans rights and more, to the stream of shocking “shadow docket” decisions and its enabling of many of the Trump administration’s executive actions. What does the 2025-2026 term have in store for the nation? What could advance through the Court? What might come up on the shadow docket? And perhaps most importantly, how will the Court choose to mediate the Trump administration’s continued onslaught of executive actions?
A full transcript of the episode may be found here, as well as a few excerpts below:
“I think the dominant story of the upcoming term is going to be the Trump merits cases, and whether we see any more pushback from the court in these merits cases than what we’ve seen so far in the emergency applications.” — Steve Vladeck
“One of the striking things is, for as busy as the Supreme Court has been in granting emergency relief to President Trump over the last eight months, as we sit here, very few of those grants have come with merits like analysis.” — Steve Vladeck
“When Justice Jackson says, there are two rules, right, and one is that the Trump administration always wins. That’s reflected in how cases, or at least otherwise like cases, the courts go in one way if Trump is in it, and one way if he’s not. And that’s true, not just as compared to non-Trump cases, right now.” — Steve Vladeck
Meet the Host of On the Issues: Dr. Michele Goodwin is a prolific thought leader on matters of constitutional law and health policy. In addition to Ms. magazine, Dr. Goodwin’s commentary can be read in The Atlantic, The New York Times, the Nation, CNN and The L.A. Times, among others. She holds the Linda D. & Timothy J. O’Neill chair in constitutional law and global health policy at Georgetown Law School and serves as the co-faculty director of the O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law. She is the executive producer of Ms. Studios.
About Ms. Magazine: Co-founded by Gloria Steinem in 1971 and published by the Feminist Majority Foundation since 2001, Ms. magazine has been a trusted, popular source for feminist news and information in print and online for over 50 years. Ms.’s time-honored traditions of an emphasis on in-depth investigative reporting and feminist political analysis have never been more relevant, bringing a new generation of writers and readers together to share news, analysis, research and strategies for fighting back and moving forward, for shaping the future.
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If you would like more information on the On the Issues with Michele Goodwin podcast, or to schedule an interview with Host and Executive Producer Michele Goodwin or Executive Producer & Ms. Executive Editor Katherine Spillar, please email press@msmagazine.com.
The episode
is available now on Apple Podcasts, Spotify and MsMagazine.com. On the Issues with Michele Goodwin is a popular, issues and policy-focused podcast featuring feminist
analysis, insightful conversations and exciting guests. This is the first podcast
from Ms. magazine, a legacy feminist
publication. In each episode, host Dr. Michele Goodwin and special guests will
tackle the most compelling issues of our times, centering feminist concerns
about rebuilding our nation and advancing the promise of equality. A new
episode—The Supreme Court is Back in
Session. What Fresh Hell Awaits? (with Steve Vladeck)—is available now on
Apple Podcasts, Spotify and MsMagazine.com. This
last Supreme Court term was harrowing—from momentous merits decisions about the
First Amendment, parental rights, trans rights and more, to the stream of
shocking “shadow docket” decisions and its enabling of many of the Trump
administration’s executive actions. What does the 2025-2026 term have in store
for the nation? What could advance through the Court? What might come up on the
shadow docket? And perhaps most importantly, how will the Court choose to
mediate the Trump administration’s continued onslaught of executive actions? A full
transcript of the episode may be found here, as well as
a few excerpts below: “I think the dominant story of the upcoming term is going to be the
Trump merits cases, and whether we see any more pushback from the court in
these merits cases than what we’ve seen so far in the emergency applications.”
— Steve Vladeck “One of the striking things is, for as busy as the Supreme Court has
been in granting emergency relief to President Trump over the last eight
months, as we sit here, very few of those grants have come with merits like
analysis.” — Steve Vladeck “When Justice Jackson says, there are two rules, right, and one is that
the Trump administration always wins. That’s reflected in how cases, or at
least otherwise like cases, the courts go in one way if Trump is in it, and one
way if he’s not. And that’s true, not just as compared to non-Trump cases,
right now.” — Steve Vladeck Meet the Host of On the Issues: Dr. Michele Goodwin is a prolific thought leader on matters of
constitutional law and health policy. In addition to Ms. magazine, Dr.
Goodwin’s commentary can be read in The Atlantic, The New York Times, the
Nation, CNN and The L.A. Times, among others. She holds the Linda D. &
Timothy J. O’Neill chair in constitutional law and global health policy at
Georgetown Law School and serves as the co-faculty director of the O’Neill
Institute for National and Global Health Law. She is the executive producer of
Ms. Studios. About Ms.
Magazine: Co-founded by Gloria Steinem
in 1971 and published by the Feminist Majority Foundation since 2001, Ms. magazine has been a trusted, popular
source for feminist news and information in print and online for over 50 years.
Ms.’s time-honored traditions of an emphasis on in-depth investigative
reporting and feminist political analysis have never been more relevant,
bringing a new generation of writers and readers together to share news,
analysis, research and strategies for fighting back and moving forward, for
shaping the future. #### If you would like more information on the On the Issues with Michele
Goodwin podcast, or to schedule an interview with Host and Executive Producer
Michele Goodwin or Executive Producer & Ms. Executive Editor Katherine
Spillar, please email press@msmagazine.com.
