A 'deep dive' on the Supreme Court

We the People

National Constitution Center

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4.6 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 7 July 2016

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

Jeffrey Rosen, president and CEO of the National Constitution Center, is joined by leading Supreme Court watchers to review the recent term and look ahead to the future. The participants are Neal Katyal of Georgetown University and Hogan Lovells; Judge Nancy Gertner of Harvard University; Nina Totenberg of NPR; Geoffrey Stone of the University of Chicago; and Lawrence Lessig of Harvard University. Get the latest constitutional news, and continue the conversation, on our Facebook page and Twitter feed. We want to know what you think of the podcast! Email us at [email protected]. Please subscribe to We the People on iTunes. While you’re in the iTunes Store, leave us a rating and review; it helps other people discover what we do. Please also subscribe to Live at America’s Town Hall, featuring conversations and debates presented at the Center, across from Independence Hall in beautiful Philadelphia. We the People is a member of Slate’s Panoply network. Check out all of our sibling podcasts at iTunes.com/Panoply. Despite our congressional charter, the National Constitution Center is a private nonprofit; we receive little government support, and we rely on the generosity of people around the country who are inspired by our nonpartisan mission of constitutional debate and education. Please consider becoming a member to support our work, including this podcast. Visit constitutioncenter.org to learn more. This show was edited by David Stotz and produced by Nicandro Iannacci. Research was provided by Josh Waimberg, Lana Ulrich, and Tom Donnelly. The host of We the People is Jeffrey Rosen.

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0:00.0	I'm Nekandru Yinachi web content strategist at the National Constitution Center.
0:05.0	Jeffrey Rosen is away this week.
0:07.0	The National Constitution Center is the only institution in America
0:11.0	chartered by Congress to disseminate information
0:14.3	about the US Constitution on a nonpartisan basis. On today's show we travel to
0:20.6	Aspen, Colorado, home of the annual Aspen Ideas Festival.
0:25.0	Jeff spent the last week there hosting several programs on constitutional issues,
0:30.0	including the one you are about to hear.
0:33.0	It was without a doubt an exciting and unpredictable year at the Supreme Court
0:39.0	with the sudden passing of Justice Antonin Scalia
0:42.0	and several important rulings or non-rulings on hot-button issues.
0:48.7	In Aspen, Jeff was joined by several leading Supreme Court observers to review the term, all of the speakers have
0:55.2	previously been guests on We The People or speakers here at the center in Philadelphia.
1:01.5	Here's Jeff to get us started.
1:03.0	It is now my great pleasure, ladies and gentlemen, to introduce one, two, three, four, five of the
1:09.6	greatest court watchers and scholars of the Constitution in the United States and I will do that
1:14.8	with alacrity.
1:17.4	Larry Lussig, professor at Harvard Law School, Cyber Guru, foe of corruption, constitutional profit, and my law school teacher.
1:27.0	Jeff Stone, University of Chicago, America's leading First Amendment
1:33.1	defender.
1:33.5	You've heard him in every venue here on the First Amendment
1:37.2	on privacy.
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