Article III and the future of the Supreme Court

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🗓️ 6 October 2016

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Daniel Farber of the University of California, Berkeley, and Barry McDonald of Pepperdine University discuss how Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump would appoint judges and change constitutional law. Get the latest constitutional news, and continue the conversation, on Facebook and Twitter. We want to know what you think of the podcast! Email us at [email protected]. Please subscribe to We the People and Live at America’s Town Hall on iTunes, Stitcher, or your favorite podcast app. We the People is a member of Slate’s Panoply network. Check out the full roster at Panoply.fm. 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 engineered by Jason Gregory and produced by Nicandro Iannacci. Research was provided by Lana Ulrich and Tom Donnelly. The host of We the People is Jeffrey Rosen. Special thanks to Matt Stanford and Joe Spence at the University of California, Berkeley, for arranging this event.

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0:00.0	I'm Jeffrey Rosen, president and CEO of the National Constitution Center, and welcome
0:07.8	to We The People, a weekly show of constitutional debate.
0:11.4	The National Constitution Center is the only institution in America, chartered by Congress to disseminate information about the U.S. Constitution on a non-partisan basis. This week we have a very special edition of We The People, the phenomenal students at Berkeley Law School reached out and said,
0:27.0	hey, why don't you have your first We The People on the road?
0:30.0	And just last week I went out to Berkeley. We had this magnificent live debate, about 100 students and community members showed up.
0:39.0	And afterward, members of the Federalist Society and the American Constitution Society which co-sponsor the debate
0:44.4	and chose the debaters, joined for lunch and talked about how important and meaningful civil dialogue
0:50.3	is.
0:51.3	So grateful to the great Berkeley students who organize this and I'm issuing a call
0:55.2	as you'll hear later in the show for law schools around the country to invite we the people to
0:59.2	visit your campuses so we can continue to take this great show on the road.
1:04.0	And now, over to We the People in Berkeley.
1:07.0	Ladies and
1:13.0	greetings from Philadelphia.
1:16.0	I am here in beautiful Berkeley, California at the Bolt-Paul Law School,
1:20.0	and welcome to the first episode of We the People on the Road.
1:25.7	We the People is sponsored by the National Constitution Center, which, as all of you know, is the only
1:31.1	institution in America chartered by Congress to disseminate
1:34.6	information about the US Constitution on a non-partisan basis. And in these
1:39.8	polarized times the Constitution Center is the one place where people from across the
1:44.1	political spectrum can come together to learn about, debate and celebrate this one great document
1:50.6	of freedom that unites us the US Constitution.
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