S E1279: In Class with Carr, Ep. 279: "I Respectfully Dissent!"
This Is Karen Hunter
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🗓️ 28 July 2025
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Summary
In the 2025 Supreme Court term, Justice Ketanji Onyika Brown Jackson authored more dissents than any of her colleagues, offering a searing critique of expanding executive power and the erosion of constitutional norms and the Rule of Law. This week we focus on her dissent in Trump v. CASA, the White Nationalist frontal assault on birthright citizenship, placing Brown Jackson’s dissent in historical context. Her dissents represent a form of intellectual resistance—urgent, unflinching, and deeply rooted in the very framework and principles now being overtly obviated by the Supreme Court’s majority and more accommodated by those who oppose them less directly. Her words offer lessons for integrity in a moment where both the concept of “America” and the reconfiguration of the United States’ role in the Contemporary World System is increasingly marked by institutional instability and authoritarian retreat.
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| 0:00.0 | this is karen hunter and welcome to in class with car this is a space where during the pandemic |
| 0:07.7 | we imagined what it would look like to teach a class online that would be for the world and it |
| 0:14.4 | started with a simple question can i press record it was a question that i asked of the people's professor |
| 0:19.9 | dr gray car At the time, |
| 0:22.0 | he was the head of Africana Studies at Howard University. He's still teaching the world. And in this |
| 0:26.8 | space, we have been going strong since 2020. And it has been amazing. So tune in to In Class |
| 0:33.8 | with Carr. And thank you for joining us. You can follow us by the way at |
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| 0:52.5 | The court means that you are sometimes in the minority. |
| 0:56.0 | Sometimes. |
| 0:57.0 | How do you decide when you're going to issue a dissent? |
| 1:03.0 | You know, I dissent, well, first of all, just in terms of the sheer mechanics, |
| 1:11.6 | there are nine justices on the court, |
| 1:13.6 | and when we do our conference vote, |
| 1:16.6 | we know within a few days of the oral argument |
| 1:20.6 | how the court has voted in the case. |
| 1:22.6 | And sometimes it'll take months |
| 1:24.6 | for us to get the opinion out, but we know internally. |
| 1:28.3 | And the most senior, the justice with the most seniority on the majority side and on the minority side |
| 1:38.3 | is responsible for making the assignments. So, you know, in a case that we have a lot of unanimity, actually, |
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