Live from the Aspen Ideas Festival: 2022-23 Supreme Court Review

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🗓️ 30 June 2023

⏱️ 55 minutes

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This week, NCC President and CEO Jeffrey Rosen moderated a panel live from the Aspen Ideas Festival featuring three of America’s leading legal scholars: former deputy solicitor general and Georgetown Law Professor Neal Katyal, Stanford Law Professor Pam Karlan, and Clark Neily of the Cato Institute. During the program, they discussed the major decisions from the Supreme Court’s most recent term, including Allen v. Milligan, in which the Court upheld Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act; Moore v Harper, where the Court rejected the independent state legislature theory; Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard, in which the Court struck down affirmative action programs in higher education as violating equal protection; and more. Resources: Aspen Ideas Festival 2023: Supreme Court Review Moore v. Harper (2023) Allen v. Milligan (2023) Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard (2023) 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. You can find transcripts for each episode on the podcast pages in our Media Library.

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0:00.0	Hello, friends. I'm Jeffrey Rosen, president and CEO of the National Constitution
0:06.6	Center and welcome to We The People, a weekly show of constitutional debate.
0:11.2	The National Constitution Center is a nonpartisan nonprofit nonprofit chartered by Congress to increase awareness and understanding of the Constitution among the American people.
0:20.0	This week I'm in Aspen, Colorado, and I'm talking to you from the Aspen Ideas Festival,
0:26.4	where we just held a great panel about the end of the Supreme Court term, from affirmative action to the independent state legislature,
0:35.0	theory, to the voting rights decision and much more.
0:37.6	This has been an important term and I was joined by three of America's leading legal scholars to discuss it.
0:45.0	Neil Kachiel, Pam Carlin, and Clark Neely are our panelists.
0:50.0	The program was recorded live at the Audience Festival and I'm thrilled to share it with you now.
0:54.6	Enjoy the show.
0:58.6	Hello friends and welcome to the Aspen Ideas Festival Supreme Court panel.
1:05.0	The Supreme Court as always has checked in with the organizers of the Aspen
1:12.2	ideas festival. checked in with the organizers of the Aspen Ideas Festival and has thoughtfully handed down its
1:16.7	affirmative action decision moments before we convene.
1:22.1	And we are here to discuss the momentous decisions that the court has
1:25.9	handed down in the past few weeks, including affirmative action, the future of
1:31.4	American elections, the future of the Voting Rights Act, and much more.
1:37.8	We have a remarkable panel of America's leading Supreme Court thinkers and litigators.
1:44.6	They have a diversity of views and our goal is both to help you understand the legal reasoning
1:50.6	of the decision and their implications implications both the majority opinions and the
1:54.7	dissents so that you can make up your own mind. So we're going to jump right into it. I am
1:59.6	thrilled to introduce first of all Neil Catjal of Georgetown Law School
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