U.S. Supreme Court Begins a New Term

NPR's Nina Totenberg has a preview of cases that will be heard by the U.S. Supreme Court in their new term which starts this week. 4 min., 38 sec. transcript available.

Another presentation of some cases in the coming term in a Wall Street Journal podcast can be found here. 24 min. transcript available.

Some History of the U.S. Supreme Court 

Throughline, a podcast from NPR, has an hour-long discussion with law professors of the history of the development of the power of the U.S. Supreme Court (Marbury v. Madison, Dred Scott, Roosevelt's court packing plan, enforcement of Brown v. Board of Education, Roe v. Wade...). No transcript.

U.S. Constitution in a Series of Short Videos

To learn about the U.S. constitutional system, you can go to the National Constitution Center's collection of 27 educational videos. They are are short (from 2 to 20 minutes) and have subtitles.