Landmark Supreme Court Decisions; Democratic Presidential Candidate Lincoln Chafee; Panel: Racism in Law Enforcement

On this week's podcast:

The U.S. Supreme Court ended this year’s term by handing down some of its most important decisions in decades. Same-sex marriage is now legal throughout the land, and the Affordable Care Act – better known as Obamacare – withstood yet another challenge. Prof. David Cruz, a constitutional law expert and a specialist in LGBT rights at the USC Gould School of Law, and Prof. Melissa Murray of BerkeleyLaw at the University of California, Berkeley, discuss the legal underpinnings and social implications of the rulings. 

Former U.S. Senator and former Rhode Island Governor Lincoln Chafee recently became the fourth candidate to announce that he is seeking the Democratic nomination for president. He joins us from Providence, R.I. to discuss his candidacy and his chances against front-runner Hillary Rodham Clinton.

In a special panel discussion, we examine the extent of institutional racism in police departments, and whether police culture perpetuates the problem. Our panelists are three retired Los Angeles Police Department officers: Sgt. Cheryl Dorsey, a 20-year LAPD veteran whose assignments included vice, narcotics, patrol, and the controversial gang unit known as CRASH, and the author of an autobiography,  “Black and Blue: The Creation of a Manifesto”; Officer Alex Salazar, a private investigator specializing in civil rights and police abuse cases who spent nine years with the LAPD, working in the notorious Rampart Division, which served as the basis for the film “Training Day”; and Capt. John Mutz, a 25-year LAPD veteran now working as an executive coach.