‘Deadlocked’ Trailer: Dawn Porter’s Showtime Docuseries Explores What Let To The Tumult And Waning Trust In The Supreme Court
deadline.comShowtime’s four-part docuseries on the Supreme Court, Deadlocked: How America Shaped the Supreme Court, will premiere its first episode on September 22, amid a period of intense concern over the impact and integrity of the high court.
From director Dawn Porter, the project delves into the modern era of the court, going back to the Earl Warren court of the 1950s and 1960s, when the justices established a series of landmark progressive precedents, to today, with the conservative majority upending abortion rights and affirmative action.
With it has come increasing distrust of the court itself, as well as the internal intrigue given the unprecedented leak last year of the Dobbs abortion decision. “I wanted to give people an understanding of how the court works,” Porter told Deadline. “…You don’t pay attention until something you love is gone, until a right you cherish has been overturned.
So I felt like it would be good to add to this conversation. The news reports are important, but they’re reporting on cases, but not necessarily the long road to this Supreme Court and how we got here.
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