Donald Trump and the Supreme Court

We the People

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🗓️ 17 November 2016

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Dahlia Lithwick of Slate and Jonathan Adler of Case Western Reserve University explain how new appointments to the Court could 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! Go to bit.ly/wethepeoplepodcast to share your feedback. Please subscribe to We the People and our companion podcast, 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 Kevin Kilbourne and produced by Nicandro Iannacci. Research was provided by Lana Ulrich and Tom Donnelly. The host of We the People is Jeffrey Rosen.

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0:00.0	Hello We the People listeners. We need your help to make this podcast even better.
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0:24.8	Thanks so much.
0:26.5	I'm Jeffrey Rosen, president and CEO of the National Constitution
0:31.0	Center, and welcome to We The People, a weekly show of constitutional development. National Constitution
0:37.0	is the only institution in America chartered by Congress to disseminate
0:41.5	information about the US Constitution on a
0:44.4	nonpartisan basis. And this week we look ahead to the future of the Supreme
0:49.0	Court during the presidency of Donald Trump.
0:53.1	With Trump's victory and with Republican control of the Senate, it appears likely that the new
0:58.9	president will make a Supreme Court appointment soon. This and other appointments have the potential to reshape
1:05.2	important areas of the Court and the Constitution for years to come.
1:09.4	Joining me to discuss the future of the Court and the Constitution are two of America's leading constitutional
1:14.2	commentators.
1:15.2	We're so thrilled to have them on this special podcast.
1:17.8	Dahlia Lithwick writes about the courts and the law for slate and hosts the podcast Amicus, at which I've had the honor of appearing on. Slate and
1:25.0	Jonathan Adler is the inaugural
1:26.0	so thrilled to have her.
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