- Network: SHOWTIME
- Series Premiere Date: Sep 22, 2023
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Deadlocked: How America Shaped The Supreme Court isn’t meant to be an exhaustive history of our highest court, but it does give a great perspective on just how the court went from ruling on civil rights cases in the ’50s to its conservative turn in the 2020s.
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Granted, there are moments when we’re so deep into the legal weeds we start to wonder if this is going to be part of the mid-term, but the acclaimed and gifted director Dawn Porter (“John Lewis: Good Trouble,” “The Way I See It”) has delivered a comprehensive, provocative, occasionally startling work that focuses on some of the most impactful Supreme Court appointments of the last three-quarters of a century.
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