Five Expert Takes on Two Big Issues This Term

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🗓️ 19 May 2022

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Today on We the People, we’re sharing a conversation from a private event hosted by the National Constitution Center this week in Coral Gables, Florida, recorded with permission from the speakers. In it, President and CEO Jeffrey Rosen moderates a conversation with five experts about two of the biggest issues before the Supreme Court this term: abortion and guns. Those five experts are: Melissa Murray of NYU Law, Akhil Amar of Yale Law School, Clark Neily of the Cato Institute, Kimberly Atkins Stohr of The Boston Globe, and David French of The Dispatch. Questions or comments about the show? Email us at podcast@constitutioncenter.org. Continue today’s conversation on Facebook and Twitter using @ConstitutionCtr. Sign up to receive Constitution Weekly, our email roundup of constitutional news and debate, at bit.ly/constitutionweekly.

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0:00.0	Hello, I'm Jeffrey Rosen, president and CEO of the National Constitution Center, and welcome
0:09.3	to We The People, a weekly show of constitutional debate.
0:13.0	The National Constitution Center is a nonpartisan nonprofit chartered by Congress to increase awareness
0:18.9	and understanding of the Constitution among the American people.
0:23.0	This week, the National Constitution Center convened in Coro Gables, Florida for a meaningful
0:28.7	series of conversations about the Constitution with speakers of diverse perspectives.
0:34.0	Today on We the People were sharing one of those conversations
0:37.1	with the permission of the speakers.
0:38.8	This is a conversation with five great scholars
0:41.8	about two of the biggest issues before the Supreme Court
0:44.5	this term abortion and guns. The scholars are Melissa Murray of NYU law,
0:51.2	Akila Marr of Yale Law School, Clark Neely of the Cato Institute, Kimberly
0:56.3	Atkins Store of the Boston Globe, and David French of the Dispatch.
1:00.8	It was an honor to host the conversation and I'm so glad to share it with you dear We The People listeners.
1:06.2	Enjoy the show.
1:08.2	We are going to begin with Dobbs, the abortion case, which raises the question, should
1:16.4	Roe v. Wade be overturned?
1:18.5	And we're honored to begin with Melissa Murray.
1:22.1	Should it be overturned, and why or why not?
1:24.7	I don't think that Roe versus Wade should be overturned.
1:28.5	I think the two best arguments for it being overturned are that it is not rooted in constitutional
1:35.3	tax that there is no enumerated right to an abortion and if you follow the
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