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Have our courts — intended by America’s founders to be an independent arbiter of justice — turned into another political battlefield? Are today’s judges mere “politicians in robes?”

This program reconstructs the wild history of how we got into this dilemma, which has left bitter feelings on all sides. What effect does this have on the functioning of our democracy?

You will hear archival audio from Antonin Scalia, Brett Kavanaugh, Amy Klobuchar, Clarence Thomas, Elena Kagan and Justice Hugo Black, who revealed he had been a member of the KKK, plus insights by veteran court-watchers.

This documentary examines crucial flashpoints in recent decades:

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Are today’s judges mere “politicians in robes?” This program reconstructs the wild history of how we got into this dilemma, which has left bitter feelings on all sides. What effect does this have on the functioning of our democracy?

Have our courts – intended by America’s founders to be an independent arbiter of justice – turned into another political battlefield? Are today’s judges mere “politicians in robes?” This program reconstructs the wild history of how we got into this dilemma, which has left bitter feelings on all sides. What effect does this have on the functioning of our democracy?

Humankind documentary about politicization of the judiciary

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