Amb. Taylor on Ukraine; SCOTUS Confirmation Hearing; Why Legal Aid Says the NYPD's 'Suspect Index' is Illegal; The New Yorker's Women Cartoonists

The Brian Lehrer Show | Mar 23, 2022

Coming up on today's show:

  • William Taylor, diplomat, vice president for Russia and Europe at the U.S. Institute of Peace and former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine, talks about the current situation in Ukraine and the prospects for ending the conflict.

  • Philip Desgranges, supervising attorney with the Criminal Defense Practice’s Special Litigation Unit for the Legal Aid Society, and Dave Pollock, staff attorney with The Legal Aid Society's DNA unit, talk about the class-action lawsuit filed by the Legal Aid Society that alleges the NYPD illegally collects DNA to store in a database from people who are suspects.

  • Mark Joseph Stern, senior writer at Slate covering courts and the law, recaps the latest developments in Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson's Supreme Court confirmation hearing.

  • Liza Donnelly, writer and cartoonist at The New Yorker and the author of Very Funny Ladies: The New Yorker's Women Cartoonists, 1925-2021 (Prometheus, 2022), talks about some of the women whose cartoons have appeared in The New Yorker over the years, plus how the field has changed over time.

Transcripts are posted to each segment page as soon as they are available. 

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