Should Neil Gorsuch be confirmed to the Supreme Court?

We the People

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🗓️ 9 February 2017

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Michele Jawando of the Center for American Progress and John Malcolm of the Heritage Foundation discuss the judge's record and potential to shape the Court. It's time for another edition of "Ask Jeff"! Submit your questions anonymously at bit.ly/askjeffpodcast or tweet them using #AskJeffNCC. Get the latest constitutional news, and continue the conversation, on Facebook and Twitter. We want to know what you think of the podcast! Email us at [email protected]. Please subscribe to We the People and our companion podcast, Live at America’s Town Hall, on iTunes, Stitcher, or your favorite podcast app. We the People is a member of Slate’s Panoply network. Check out the full roster at Panoply.fm. Despite our congressional charter, the National Constitution Center is a private nonprofit; we receive little government support, and we rely on the generosity of people around the country who are inspired by our nonpartisan mission of constitutional debate and education. Please consider becoming a member to support our work, including this podcast. Visit constitutioncenter.org to learn more. This show was engineered by Jason Gregory and produced by Nicandro Iannacci. Research was provided by Lana Ulrich and Tom Donnelly. The host of We the People is Jeffrey Rosen.

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0:00.0	Hello We the People listeners. It's time for another edition of Ask Jeff and has there ever been a better time?
0:06.0	Send me your questions about the Constitution and I'll do my best to answer them in a future episode
0:11.0	Go to bit.ly y forward slash ask Jeff podcast to submit your questions
0:17.1	that's bit dot y forward slash ask Jeff podcast you can also tweet them using the has tag Ask Jeff Podcast
0:27.0	Podcast.
0:28.0	Podcasts.
0:31.0	Podcasts. It's an amazing time to educate ourselves about the Constitution,
0:34.3	and I look forward to hearing from you.
0:37.0	I'm Jeffrey Rosen, President and CEO of the National Constitution Center, and welcome to We the People, a weekly show of constitutional debate.
0:48.0	The National Constitution Center is the only institution in America, chartered by Congress to disseminate information about the U.S. Constitution
0:57.4	on a non-partisan basis. And this week we tackle the hottest constitutional news of the day,
1:03.4	President Trump's nomination of Judge Neil Gorsuch
1:06.6	to replace Justice Antonin Scalia on the US Supreme Court.
1:11.0	Joining me to discuss the prospects for his confirmation and how he would reshape the
1:16.2	Supreme Court and to have a great deep dive into his judicial philosophy are two good friends
1:21.5	of We The People and two of America's leading constitutional advocates
1:25.2	who are on the front lines of the confirmation debate.
1:28.6	John Malcolm is director of the Edwin Meese, the third center for legal and judicial Studies, and the Ed Gilbertson and Sherry
1:34.8	Lindbergh-Gilbertson Senior Legal Fellow at the Heritage Foundation.
1:38.8	Michelle Joondo is Vice President for Legal Progress at the Center for American Progress.
1:43.8	John, Michelle, thank you so much for joining and welcome back.
1:47.0	Good to be with you.
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