{"podcast":{"title":"Opening Arguments","slug":"opening-arguments-1055646","podcast_index_feed_id":1055646,"rss_url":"https://openargs.libsyn.com/","website_url":"http://openargs.com","image_url":"https://static.libsyn.com/p/assets/2/6/1/9/261949e1b6a8cd5ae55e3c100dce7605/OA_Podcast_2024_FINAL-20240722-03wker1cxp.jpg","author":"Opening Arguments Media LLC","episode_count":1260,"summary":"Opening Arguments is a law show that helps you make sense of the news! Comedian Thomas Smith brings on legal analysts to help you understand not only current events, but also deeper legal concepts and areas! The typical schedule will be M-W-F with Monday being a deep-dive, Wednesday being Thomas Takes the Bar Exam and patron shoutouts, and Friday being a rapid response to legal issues in the news!","last_synced_at":"2026-07-15T20:19:28.616997+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/opening-arguments-1055646"},"episode":{"title":"When It Comes to Juries, All of a Sudden the Supreme Court Can See Race","slug":"when-it-comes-to-juries-all-of-a-sudden-the-supreme-court-can-see-race","published_at":"2026-06-15T09:18:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/opening-arguments-1055646/when-it-comes-to-juries-all-of-a-sudden-the-supreme-court-can-see-race","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/opening-arguments-1055646","url":"https://sites.libsyn.com/86258/when-it-comes-to-juries-all-of-a-sudden-the-supreme-court-can-see-race","audio_url":"https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/pdst.fm/e/pscrb.fm/rss/p/mgln.ai/e/35/clrtpod.com/m/traffic.libsyn.com/secure/openargs/OA1270.mp3?dest-id=455562","summary":"OA1270 - A good court thingie! A famous case from 1986 gave us the “Batson rule” that prevents the use of “peremptory strikes” to remove people from juries on the basis of race. To this day, racial discrimination in jury selection continues to be a problem. But the Supreme Court recently reinforced the on-going utility of Batson challenges in two decisions… written by Kavanaugh? Tune in to learn about the history and modern application of this important protection of our rights. Swain v. Alabama , 380 U.S. 202 (1965) Batson v. Kentucky , 476 U.S. 79 (1986) J. E. B. v. Alabama ex rel. T. B. , 511 U.S. 127 (1994) Flowers v. Mississippi , 588 U.S. 284 (2019) Pitchford v. Cain , 608 U.S. ___ (2026) Batson “Justifications” Catherine M. Grosso & Barbara O’Brien, A Stubborn Legacy: The Overwhelming Importance of Race in Jury Selection in 173 Post-Batson North Carolina Capital Trials , 97 Iowa L. Rev. 1531 (2012). Shamena Anwar, Patrick Bayer, & Randi Hjalmarsson, The Impact of Jury Race in Criminal Trials , 127 Q.J. Econ. 1017 (2011). Check out the OA Linktree for all the places to go and things to do!","meta_description":"OA1270 - A good court thingie! A famous case from 1986 gave us the “Batson rule” that prevents the use of “peremptory strikes” to remove people from jurie…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3383,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/opening-arguments-1055646/episodes/when-it-comes-to-juries-all-of-a-sudden-the-supreme-court-can-see-race/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/opening-arguments-1055646/when-it-comes-to-juries-all-of-a-sudden-the-supreme-court-can-see-race.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}