A report card on week one of the Supreme Court’s new term
On Point with Meghna Chakrabarti
WBUR
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🗓️ 7 October 2022
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
In its last term the Supreme Court struck down Roe v. Wade, limited the authority of the EPA and expanded gun rights. In its new term, the court faces decisions on voting rights, affirmative action, gay rights. Amy Howe, Carolyn Shapiro and Erwin Chemerinsky join Kimberly Atkins Stohr.
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Kimberly Atkins-Store and this is on point. |
| 0:08.7 | A new term and a new associate justice on the Supreme Court this week. |
| 0:13.1 | If you have a neutral plan and someone comes in and upsets it to racially gerrymandered |
| 0:18.2 | in favor of one racial group, well necessarily you're going to be harming some other group |
| 0:22.3 | on account of race. |
| 0:23.3 | Why are you saying it's a neutral plan council? |
| 0:25.5 | I don't understand the jingles preconditions are designed to establish that there may actually |
| 0:32.7 | be race discrimination working in this particular situation. |
| 0:38.8 | Justice Katangi Brown Jackson wasted no time participating in oral arguments. |
| 0:43.7 | Jackson is the first black woman to serve on the court, replacing Justice Stephen Breyer. |
| 0:48.7 | What you heard was Jackson pushing back against Alabama solicitor general Edmund LeCurr |
| 0:54.1 | in oral arguments in a voting rights case this week. |
| 0:56.8 | Jackson points out that racial discrimination has already been baked in where congressional |
| 1:02.1 | lines are being drawn through segregated housing. |
| 1:05.4 | These are really tough things to establish and collectively they show that it's not neutral |
| 1:11.5 | the situation that we are approaching in this situation. |
| 1:14.8 | We're talking about a situation in which race has already infused the voting system. |
| 1:22.6 | We'll have more moments from inside the court throughout this hour. |
| 1:26.6 | We have a preview of what Jackson will bring to the court and the landmark cases it will |
| 1:31.1 | be hearing this term. |
| 1:32.9 | But let's begin with the cases it heard this week. |
| 1:36.6 | Joining us from Washington DC is Amy Howe. |
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