Supreme Court Term Preview

We the People

National Constitution Center

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🗓️ 27 September 2018

⏱️ 54 minutes

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We take a deep dive into the upcoming Supreme Court term, set to begin Monday, October 1, and explore forthcoming cases that involve everything from double jeopardy and excessive fines to cemeteries and endangered frogs. Host Jeffrey Rosen is joined by Brianne Gorod of the Constitutional Accountability Center and Ilya Shapiro of the Cato Institute, who both filed amicus briefs in many of the cases discussed, and filed jointly in one of this term’s key cases, Gamble v. United States.

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0:00.0	I'm Jeffrey Rosen, president and CEO of the National Constitution Center, and welcome
0:09.9	to We The People, a weekly show of constitutional debate.
0:13.7	The National Constitution Center is a nonpartisan nonprofit chartered by Congress to increase
0:19.6	awareness and understanding of the Constitution among the American people.
0:25.4	These are polarized times.
0:27.4	It's all the more important that we the people bring together the best conservative libertarian
0:31.8	and progressive voices in the country not for
0:34.3	political but for constitutional debate and dear we the people listeners rest assured
0:38.8	that we will continue to hold that light in the weeks, months, and years ahead.
0:46.0	And in this episode, we preview the Supreme Court's upcoming October 2018 term,
0:52.0	which begins on Monday, October 1st.
0:54.8	And here to discuss the new term, our two of our dream team,
0:58.3	We The People, repeat guests, visitors and friends
1:01.4	of the National Constitution Center Center and two of America's
1:04.0	leading Supreme Court commentators and scholars.
1:07.0	Brian Gorod is chief counsel at the Constitutional Accountability Center and
1:11.4	she is here with me at our satellite studio in
1:14.2	Washington DC.
1:15.2	Grian it's such an honor to have you back.
1:16.8	Thank you for having me.
1:17.8	And Ilia Schiff-Piro is Senior Fellow in Constitutional Studies at the Cato
1:21.7	Institute and Editor-in-Chief of the Cato Supreme Court
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