Deadline’s Doc Talk Podcast: ‘Deadlocked’ Director Dawn Porter On The U.S. Supreme Court Facing A Crisis Of Legitimacy
deadline.comAt 1 First Street in Northeast Washington stands the columned U.S. Supreme Court building, an imposing marble edifice where the most essential constitutional questions are adjudicated.
Across generations, Americans held the institution in the highest regard. But not anymore. Now, according to polls, perceptions of the Court have shifted drastically — from revered redoubt of impartial justice to just another political forum where ideological battles are waged.
Filmmaker Dawn Porter, a Georgetown Law School graduate, examines the Court as it faces an unprecedented crisis of legitimacy in her Showtime documentary series Deadlocked: How America Shaped the Supreme Court.
Porter is our guest on the latest episode of Deadline’s Doc Talk podcast, discussing how the nation’s highest tribunal evolved in recent decades from protector of minority rights to, arguably, a protector of minority rule.
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