‘Deadlocked’ Trailer: Dawn Porter’s Showtime Docuseries Explores What Let To The Tumult And Waning Trust In The Supreme Court
01.08.2023 - 16:09
/ deadline.com
Showtime’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. And I wanted to focus on how we got here, not only where we are.”
Porter reached out to the justices to comment for the series but, to little surprise, they did not participate. “The closest we could really get were some clerks. The clerks abide very strictly by ethical rules, so the clerks will not discuss individual deliberations. They are bound by secrecy. And I feel like a lot of the clerks take their ethical obligations maybe more seriously than some of the justices. But they would tell you, anything that’s been published. Anything that’s in court papers, we could report on.”
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