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Low pay for judges. Chronic vacancies. Excessive workloads. Politicized decisions. Observers have pointed to a variety of troubling trends in the nation's federal courts. But do they constitute a "crisis"? Kojo examines challenges facing the federal judiciary.
Barbara Perry, Senior Fellow, University of Louisville; Professor of Government, Sweet Briar College
Manus Cooney, Former Chief Counsel and Staff Director of the United States Senate Judiciary Committee (1989-2000); President and Founder, Potomac Counsel LLC
Jeffrey Rosen, Professor of Law, George Washington University Law School; Legal Affairs Editor, The New Republic; Author, "The Supreme Court: The Personalities and Rivalries That Defined America" (Times Books)
They said TV would kill the radio. But despite doomsday declarations in the 1950s, a handful of visionary programmers pioneered new sounds, and seized cultural niches in the American media landscape. From rock & roll "disk jockeys" to political talk shows, Kojo discusses the imprint of radio on American pop-culture.
Marc Fisher, Washington Post columnist; and author of "Something in the Air: Radio, Rock, and the Revolution that Shaped a Generation" (Random House)
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