Radiolab | The Heist | Radiolab Presents: More Perfect Podcast | Season 2 Episode 1 @Radiolabpod | Uploaded May 2022 | Updated October 2024, 19 hours ago.
The second season of More Perfect begins with hot dogs, secrecy and the biggest heist in the history of the United States Supreme Court.

The Supreme Court may not have been conceptualized as a co-equal branch of the federal government, but it became one as a result of the political maneuvering of Chief Justice John Marshall. The fourth (and longest-serving) chief justice was "a great lover of power," according to historian Jill Lepore, but he was also a great lover of secrecy. Marshall believed, in order for the Justices to confer with each other candidly, their papers needed to remain secret in perpetuity. It was under this veil of secrecy that the biggest heist in the history of the Supreme Court took place.

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Video by Michael Snyder, Kim Nowacki and Andrea Latimer.