As the Supreme Court hears its final case of the term, we look back at what happened and what’s to come. Aziz Huq, Deputy Director of the Brennan Center for Justice and co-author of Unchecked and Unbalanced: Presidential Power in a Time of Terror examines the court’s tactical retreat and its long-term focus. Remember, Bush may be on his way out but Scalia, Thomas, and Roberts are here to stay. What’s on their agenda? Liliana Segura, who edits the rights and liberties section at AlterNet says that Scalia is at least as interested in hawking his new book and dispensing legal advice to attorneys as he is in defending torture and writing the majority opinion in the important and controversial second amendment case, D.C. v. Heller. And Frank Deale, a law professor at CUNY tells us why the court’s decisions on workers’ rights were surprising and what they mean.

Have youth eclipsed independents as the election’s most sought after demographic? Obama thinks so and he’s out to find them: 40 million voters under the age of 25, the majority of whom vote and identify with the Democratic Party. Find out here why the digital divide, the age of information, and the fact that John McCain is after all aware of the internet might just have something to do with who ends up in the oval office.

Laura grills election experts Bill Hillsman, founder of Independent Voters of America and author of Run the Other Way: Fixing the Two-Party System, One Campaign at a Time, and Morley Winograd, Al Gore’s Senior Policy Advisor and the co-author of Millennial Makeover: My Space, YouTube, and the Future of American Politics, on so-called floaters, swing voters, the youth vote, and the role of new media and technology in electoral politics. And why they don’t think the new MoveOn ad is effective.

Coal mining is a way of life and death in Eastern Kentucky. More than 100 years of extracting coal from the earth has hardly been a boon for the residents of Pike County, Kentucky. The land is scarred, the ground water contaminated, and mining accidents all too common. The True Cost of Coal, as this documentary from Appalshop Community Media and part of the Human Rights Watch International Film Festival shows, is the price people pay everyday in their lives.

Also in this episode of GRITtv: the premiere of TechGrrl Tips from Deanna Zandt, reporting from the Personal Democracy Forum. Did you know John McCain doesn’t have a computer?

Commentary from attorney Michael Smith of Law and Disorder Radio. Civil Rights 2.0, and Ava Lowrey’s I Care, Do You?