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Stand Up! with Pete Dominick

Con Law Scholar Eric Segall on Supreme Court : Affirmative Actionm LGBT rights, College Loan Debt Forgiveness

Stand Up! with Pete Dominick

Pete Dominick

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4.91.2K Ratings

🗓️ 30 June 2023

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Welcome to my new Series "can you talk real quick?" This is a short, efficiently produced conversation with someone who knows stuff about things that are happening and who will let me record a quick chat to help us all better understand an issue in the news or our lives as well as connect with each other around something that might be unfolding in real time.

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Eric J. Segall graduated from Emory University, Phi Beta Kappa 27 and summa cum laude, and from Vanderbilt Law School, where he was the research editor for the Law Review and member of Order of the Coif. He clerked for the Chief Judge Charles Moye Jr. for the Northern District of Georgia, and Albert J. Henderson of the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals. After his clerkships, Segall worked for Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher and the U.S. Department of Justice, before joining the Georgia State faculty in 1991.

Segall teaches federal courts and constitutional law I and II. He is the author of the books Originalism as Faith and Supreme Myths: Why the Supreme Court is not a Court and its Justices are not Judges. His articles on constitutional law have appeared in, among others, the Harvard Law Review Forum, the Stanford Law Review On Line, the UCLA Law Review, the George Washington Law Review, the Washington University Law Review, the University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law, the Northwestern University Law Review Colloquy, and Constitutional Commentary among many others.

Segall’s op-eds and essays have appeared in the New York Times, the LA Times, The Atlantic, SLATE, Vox, Salon, and the Daily Beast, among others. He has appeared on CNN, Fox News, MSNBC, and France 24 and all four of Atlanta’s local television stations. He has also appeared on numerous local and national radio shows.

Listen and Subscribe to Eric's Podcast Supreme Myths and follow him on Tik Tok!

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to another episode of Can You Talk real quick?

0:05.1

This is where I reach out to a very expert guest on a very important and impactful issue

0:10.9

and interview them, get it turned around quickly for you to listen to, digest and understand

0:16.3

how it impacts you, your family, community, country or the planet today.

0:21.0

It's our good friend, Professor Eric Siegel of Georgia State University, the host of the

0:24.6

Supreme Myths, a podcast, constitutional law scholar has written two very important

0:29.1

books, Originalism is Faith and of course Supreme Myths always held that the court is not

0:34.5

a court, the justices are not judges, more proof of that today.

0:39.1

We talked about three specific cases, the court decided here at the end of their term

0:44.2

in June and of June 2023.

0:46.6

We talked first about the affirmative action case, then we talked about a case affecting

0:52.1

LGBT hiring or firing and finally we discussed the affirmative action case.

0:57.4

Without further ado, because that's what I do with Can You Talk real quick, get there

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to you real quick, very little production, turn around, get it posted for you to listen

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to.

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We actually went live on Twitter for this as well.

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So follow him at eSpin Siegel.

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I'm of course, Pete Dominick and I can't do it without your support.

1:14.9

So please consider a subscription patreon.com size Pete Dominick.

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So we can keep doing this kind of really enlightening, informative and sometimes maybe not today,

1:24.5

but inspiring content.

1:26.3

Let's do it.

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