243: The Court & The Constitution with Justice Stephen Breyer

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🗓️ 4 April 2024

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Summary

James and Al critique coastal elitism, explore how the Israel-Gaza war ends, and welcome Justice Breyer to discuss the role of the Supreme Court and its judges. They compare textualism and pragmatism using Justice Scalia as a foil, weigh the factors that go into reading the Constitution, debate politics’ place on the bench, review the ethics governing the court, and look at why public approval of the judicial branch is plummeting. In their conversation they also break down the language of the 2nd Amendment, explain how history is the ultimate arbiter of past decisions, and call on us to listen to one another to find compromise where we can.

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0:14.0	Hello and I'm Al Hunt. This week our guest is Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer.
0:18.0	Remember, we love taking your questions, so write in the politics war room at gmail
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0:28.6	get to as many as we can but don't forget to tell us where you're from.
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0:51.0	Hey James, I first met Stephen Breyer more than 45 years ago when he was one of those extraordinary
1:00.3	Edward M. Kennedy staffers, he was then working on airline deregulation.
1:05.0	And I have been in awe ever since, including his 28 years as a justice on the United States Supreme Court.
1:13.4	Welcome, Mr. Justice, we are so privileged to
1:17.4	much.
1:18.4	It's very nice.
1:19.4	Thank you for the kind words.
1:20.4	You have written a new book, the Constitution why I chose pragmatism not
1:25.9	textualism. Explain it and what do you intend for this to convey to aspiring
1:32.2	lawyers and concerned citizens?
1:34.0	Well, what is a job?
1:37.0	What's the job that the Supreme Court mostly does?
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