Deadlocked: How America Shaped the Supreme Court

Thurgood Marshall fights to tear down the segregationist system and uses the law to build a more just society, expanding the rights of minorities, criminal defendants and the poor, as the Supreme Court's role becomes increasingly prominent.

In the 70s and 80s a new conservative legal and political movement emerges.

Bush v. Gore divides the nation and challenges perceptions of the Court; the Supreme Court enters a new era of ideological polarization.

With the confirmations of Justices Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, and Barrett, the Court moves decisively to the right; the Court faces charges of partisanship as its conservative majority appears set to shape American life in the coming decades.