A Word: Supreme Court Showdown

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4.5 • 6K Ratings

🗓️ 6 March 2022

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

President Joe Biden’s nomination of Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court made history. But according to MSNBC legal analyst Elie Mystal, it will take a lot more than her confirmation to break the conservative hold on the nation’s judiciary. On today’s episode of A Word, he talks with Jason Johnson about the confirmation battle ahead, and about his new book Allow Me to Retort: A Black Guy’s Guide to the Constitution. Guest: Elie Mystal, MSNBC political analyst and the justice correspondent for The Nation. His new book Allow Me to Retort: A Black Guy’s Guide to the Constitution is out now. Podcast production by Jasmine Ellis You can skip all the ads in A Word by joining Slate Plus. Sign up now at slate.com/awordplus for just $1 for your first month. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:35.5	This is a word, a podcast from Slate.
0:37.7	I'm your host, Jason Johnson.
0:39.6	With the nomination of Katanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court,
0:42.7	the debate about what the Constitution means and who gets to decide that
0:47.2	is again at the center of national debate.
0:49.6	But as much as Americans and an out of politics love to invoke the Constitution,
0:54.6	a lot of them don't know what it means.
0:57.0	So black people, women, minorities, we have never not for a day
1:02.0	been a full and equal partner in writing or interpreting the laws under which we live.
1:08.4	We could change that.
1:10.2	Legal analyst Ellie Mistal on his new book, Allow Me to Retort,
1:14.0	a black guy's guide to the Constitution coming up on a word.
1:16.8	With me, Jason Johnson, stay with us.
1:29.8	Welcome to a word, a podcast about race, impolitics, and everything else.
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