Lawfare Archive: Justice Stephen Breyer on ‘The Court and the World’
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🗓️ 29 January 2022
⏱️ 92 minutes
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From January 30, 2016: Last week at The Brookings Institution, United States Supreme Court Associate Justice Stephen Breyer participated in a discussion with Lawfare’s Benjamin Wittes and Newsweek’s Dahlia Lithwick about his new book, "The Court and the World: American Law and the New Global Realities." During their conversation, Justice Breyer provides an overview of how in a globalizing world, the steady operation of American laws depends more on the cooperation of other jurisdictions than at any other time. He also examines how the Court's decisions regarding presidential power in national security have evolved throughout American history, and weighs how the Court can balance national security objectives in an increasingly connected world.
Strobe Talbott, President of the Brookings Institution, introduced Justice Breyer and the panel.
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast contains advertising to access an ad-free version of the LawFair |
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| 0:25.6 | no bull and the aftermath. |
| 0:39.4 | I'm Katherine Pompelio with an episode from the LawFair archive for January 29, 2022. |
| 0:45.6 | This week, Justice Steven Breyer formally announced his plans to retire after serving |
| 0:49.6 | for over 27 years on the Supreme Court. |
| 0:52.4 | He is 83 and is the oldest member of the Supreme Court. |
| 0:56.3 | President Biden has confirmed that he will nominate a black woman to the Supreme Court to |
| 0:59.9 | replace Justice Breyer and will announce his nominee by the end of February. |
| 1:04.5 | For today's archive episode, I picked an episode from January 2016 in which Justice |
| 1:09.6 | Breyer sat down with LawFair's Benjamin Woodes and Newsweek's Dolly Alithwick. |
| 1:14.3 | During their conversation, Justice Breyer provided an overview of how, in a globalizing world, |
| 1:19.4 | steady operation of American laws depend more on the cooperation of other jurisdictions |
| 1:23.6 | than any other time and weighed how the Corcoran balanced national security objectives |
| 1:28.0 | been increasingly connected world. |
| 1:33.0 | I'm Cody Poplin and this is the LawFair podcast January 30, 2016. |
| 1:39.4 | That was United States Supreme Court Justice Steven Breyer discussing how the course decisions |
| 1:43.5 | regarding presidential power and national security have evolved throughout American history. |
| 1:49.2 | Last week at the Brookings Institution, Breyer participated in a discussion with LawFair's |
| 1:53.4 | Benjamin Woodes and Newsweek's Dolly Alithwick about his new book, The Court and the World, |
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