#BESTOF2022: TRICK QUESTION: 2/2: #Constitution: #SCOTUS: Is the Constitution adequate for these troubled days? Richard Epstein, Hoover Institution
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🗓️ 13 October 2023
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| 0:53.6 | A colony of the United Kingdom in the late 18th century. |
| 0:57.2 | I summarized the dissenting, but quickly, the dissenters would like more judges on the supreme court. |
| 1:04.1 | The dissenters would like new states formed out of old states. |
| 1:07.8 | They would, the dissenters speak of abolishing their electro-college, |
| 1:12.0 | and the dissenters speak of shifting power to the elected away from the appointed. |
| 1:17.3 | Professor, does all this add up to a criticism of federalism? |
| 1:20.9 | Is that what is the disturbing aspect? |
| 1:23.6 | Well, no, I think it's a criticism of conservative Americans. |
| 1:27.0 | This is all prompted not by any abstract philosophical concern. |
| 1:30.9 | I think more than anything else, some of the decisions in the recent term at the supreme court |
| 1:35.8 | have galvanized the progressive movement to say that we can't win under the current system. |
| 1:40.0 | We know we're right on the substance, so we have to change everything from structure. |
| 1:44.0 | Obviously, the biggest case on this is DOBS, which overturns the decision in Roe v. Wade, |
| 1:49.1 | having to do with a constitutional right of abortion. |
| 1:51.8 | But there are other cases, including the case which sort of allowed, in this case, |
| 1:55.3 | popular majorities, not to prohibit proper majorities from regulating gun use. |
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