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Stand Up! with Pete Dominick

1090 Prof Eric Segall returns !

Stand Up! with Pete Dominick

Pete Dominick

News, Politics

4.81.2K Ratings

🗓️ 24 April 2024

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Eric J. Segall graduated from Emory University, Phi Beta Kappa 27 and summa cum laude, and from Vanderbilt Law School, where he was the research editor for the Law Review and member of Order of the Coif. He clerked for the Chief Judge Charles Moye Jr. for the Northern District of Georgia, and Albert J. Henderson of the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals. After his clerkships, Segall worked for Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher and the U.S. Department of Justice, before joining the Georgia State faculty in 1991.
Segall teaches federal courts and constitutional law I and II. He is the author of the books Originalism as Faith and Supreme Myths: Why the Supreme Court is not a Court and its Justices are not Judges. His articles on constitutional law have appeared in, among others, the Harvard Law Review Forum, the Stanford Law Review On Line, the UCLA Law Review, the George Washington Law Review, the Washington University Law Review, the University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law, the Northwestern University Law Review Colloquy, and Constitutional Commentary among many others.
Segall’s op-eds and essays have appeared in the New York Times, the LA Times, The Atlantic, SLATE, Vox, Salon, and the Daily Beast, among others. He has appeared on CNN, Fox News, MSNBC, and France 24 and all four of Atlanta’s local television stations. He has also appeared on numerous local and national radio shows.
Listen and Subscribe to Eric's Podcast Supreme Myths and follow him on Tik Tok!

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello my friends and welcome to today's episode of Stand Up where I've got our good friend

0:05.7

Eric Siegel joining me to talk about the latest in the Trump trial but not most importantly

0:11.6

unlike most of the media which is dedicating I would argue far too much

0:15.2

time to it and I'll play a clip from John Stewart criticizing it hilariously on the Daily

0:19.6

show last night but there are more important issues to talk about with Professor Siegel

0:25.0

that are before the Supreme Court, including the disgraced former President's

0:29.6

possible immunity case, which is going to be argued this Thursday. So we get into that, new

0:34.0

abortion case and so much more in my conversation with Eric today also talking

0:38.6

about these issues on campus regarding free speech and the protests and so on.

0:44.4

I still not very read into that, but I really do plan to dig into that.

0:48.0

They continued today.

0:49.4

I don't have a news segment like I normally do, because I told told you I am on a special mission this

0:54.1

week and not predictable what I'm going to be able to get into but I do have this

0:58.3

great conversation with Siegel and before that here is a clip from John Stewart criticizing the media's

1:04.4

obsession with Trump's case and specifically I would argue yes you talk about it

1:09.3

you discuss it as I do with Eric today but you don't dedicate your entire hour over it and you don't act like every single weird moment in the trial, his facial expression, the drawings and everything else matter more than other things.

1:23.1

So here's John Stewart.

1:24.8

It's a much larger piece.

1:26.2

He goes on on this, the entire opening of the show,

1:29.5

I think, about 10 minutes, and I absolutely loved it.

1:32.6

So here's that.

1:33.6

At this point you're probably saying to yourself,

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