SUPD 983 Con Law Professor Eric Segall on new threats to the Voting Rights act and lots more
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🗓️ 29 November 2023
⏱️ 75 minutes
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Eric J. Segall graduated from Emory University, Phi Beta Kappa 27 and summa cum laude, and from Vanderbilt Law School, where he was the research editor for the Law Review and member of Order of the Coif. He clerked for the Chief Judge Charles Moye Jr. for the Northern District of Georgia, and Albert J. Henderson of the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals. After his clerkships, Segall worked for Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher and the U.S. Department of Justice, before joining the Georgia State faculty in 1991.
Segall teaches federal courts and constitutional law I and II. He is the author of the books Originalism as Faith and Supreme Myths: Why the Supreme Court is not a Court and its Justices are not Judges. His articles on constitutional law have appeared in, among others, the Harvard Law Review Forum, the Stanford Law Review On Line, the UCLA Law Review, the George Washington Law Review, the Washington University Law Review, the University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law, the Northwestern University Law Review Colloquy, and Constitutional Commentary among many others.
Segall’s op-eds and essays have appeared in the New York Times, the LA Times, The Atlantic, SLATE, Vox, Salon, and the Daily Beast, among others. He has appeared on CNN, Fox News, MSNBC, and France 24 and all four of Atlanta’s local television stations. He has also appeared on numerous local and national radio shows.
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| 0:00.0 | Well, I don't know how old I was or what Supreme Court case decision was the one that got me really |
| 0:11.2 | interested in the history of the Supreme Court and the different |
| 0:15.1 | interpretations of the United States Constitution. But when Eric Siegel came |
| 0:19.6 | into my life, our life, so much change because I really feel like we kind of went through |
| 0:26.4 | our own constitutional law course and have been ongoing as long as I've been talking to him and it's for that reason that I continue |
| 0:36.0 | having these conversations with Eric Seagull and I think I'm just going to continue |
| 0:41.0 | to make them exclusives just the interview if you will |
| 0:44.4 | this doesn't really fit in with a can you talk real quick where I'm talking to |
| 0:48.3 | one person about a specific issue that might be relevant to the time and I don't know how to make the rules around and brand these shows |
| 0:57.0 | but I do think that when I talk to Eric Seagull it's almost always special. I always always learn a lot from them and so many of you I think in no small part |
| 1:06.7 | subscribe to this program because you love the conversations that we have but today's is really really fascinating. I actually think I made some pretty |
| 1:15.9 | good smart points during this conversation. Usually I'm asking more questions. Sometimes we |
| 1:21.2 | argue a little bit, but we talked about economics and other issues |
| 1:27.0 | around democracy as well as the fact that he got into a fight with the Scalia family got very ugly on Twitter. |
| 1:36.0 | We start there. |
| 1:36.7 | We also talked about a very important case that the Eighth Circuit just decided about |
| 1:41.7 | voting rights and how that will most likely go to the Supreme |
| 1:45.8 | Court. |
| 1:46.8 | The history of voting rights, always important to be reminded by Siegel or anybody about |
| 1:52.2 | the history of voting rights in America and the threat |
| 1:54.6 | that they continue to be under by Republicans. And we also talked about a case |
| 1:59.5 | that will be argued today in front of the Supreme Court that deals with the ability for the SEC and other |
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