Deadlocked: How America Shaped the Supreme Court season 1 episode 1

Air Date: 2023-09-22

Duration: 57 min

Genre: Documentary

The Hearts of Men Can Be Changed

In the 1950s and 60s, Thurgood Marshall fights to tear down the segregationist system and uses the law to build a more just society, with the help of a Supreme Court led by Chief Justice Earl Warren. It’s an era of progressive decisions that expands the rights of minorities, criminal defendants, and the poor, as the Supreme Court’s role in American life becomes increasingly prominent and bitterly contested.