Has the Roberts Court Arrived?
We the People
National Constitution Center
4.6 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 10 July 2020
⏱️ 67 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Jeffrey Rosen, president and CEO of the National Constitution Center and welcome |
| 0:08.0 | to We The People, a weekly show of constitutional debate. |
| 0:11.8 | The National Constitution Center is a nonpartisan |
| 0:14.3 | nonprofit chartered by Congress to increase awareness and understanding of the |
| 0:19.2 | Constitution among the American people. The Supreme Court term has just ended with a series of |
| 0:25.4 | blockbuster opinions involving presidential subpoenas, religious liberty, |
| 0:30.3 | abortion, the Electoral college, and more. |
| 0:34.0 | This is the term in which Chief Justice John Roberts put the institutional legitimacy of the court, |
| 0:39.2 | front and center, leading some observers to call him the most powerful chief since Charles Evans Hughes in |
| 0:46.2 | 1937. |
| 0:47.8 | On today's episode, we will recap the Supreme Court's historic opinions and look back at this unique term with two of America's |
| 0:57.0 | leading experts on the Supreme Court. We're so honored to have both of them. |
| 1:02.3 | Kate Shaw is Professor of law and co-director of the |
| 1:05.2 | Florsheimer Center for Constitutional Democracy at Cardozo Law School. She's |
| 1:09.8 | also a contributor with ABC News and a co-host of the Supreme Court |
| 1:14.2 | podcast Strict scrutiny. |
| 1:16.6 | Kate, it is wonderful to have you back on the show. |
| 1:19.3 | Thanks, Jeff. |
| 1:19.7 | Good to be here. |
| 1:20.7 | And Ilia Shapiro is the director of the Robert A. Levy Center for Constitutional Studies |
| 1:25.5 | at the Cato Institute and publisher of the Cato Supreme Court Review. He's the author of the forthcoming |
| 1:30.8 | book, Supreme Disorder, Judicial Nominations, and the politics of |
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