The Home Stretch of the 2020–21 Supreme Court Term

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🗓️ 11 June 2021

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

As the Supreme Court approaches the home stretch of the 2020-2021 term, it’s released some opinions with unanimous decisions and others with split votes composed of unusual alignments of justices. Supreme Court experts Kate Shaw, cohost of the podcast Strict Scrutiny and professor at Cardozo Law, and Jonathan Adler, contributing editor of National Review and professor at Case Western Reserve University School of Law, join host Jeffrey Rosen to recap those decisions and detail why they’re important, as well as what to look out for in the rest of the outstanding cases still left in this term, and new cases in the next. Some terms that will be helpful to know this week: Textualism: a method of interpreting laws and/or the Constitution whereby the plain text is used to determine the meaning, and/or a set of techniques used by judges and justices to determine the application of a statute through close consideration of its text. Stare decisis: Latin for “to stand by things decided.” The doctrine of adhering to precedent i.e. cases previously decided. Questions or comments about the show? Email us at podcast@constitutioncenter.org.

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0:00.0	I'm Jeffrey Rosen, president and CEO of the National Constitution Center, and welcome to We
0:08.0	the People, a weekly show of constitutional debate.
0:11.4	The National Constitution Center is a nonpartisan nonprofit chartered by Congress to increase
0:16.7	awareness and understanding of the Constitution among the American people.
0:21.2	The Supreme Court is in the home stretch of its 20 term. Today
0:25.9	will look at the opinions released so far and explore what they teach us about
0:31.0	the court today.
0:32.7	I'm joined by two of America's leading experts on the Supreme Court and the Constitution.
0:37.2	Kate Shaw is professor of law and co-director of the Florsheimer Center for
0:41.0	constitutional democracy at Cardozo Law.
0:43.7	She's also a contributor for ABC News
0:45.8	and a co-host of the Supreme Court podcast,
0:48.3	Strict scrutiny.
0:49.6	Kate, it is wonderful to have you back on the show.
0:51.8	Hi Jeff, thanks so much for having me.
0:53.7	And Jonathan Adler is the inaugural Johann Verheim Memorial Professor of Law and director of the
0:58.9	Coleman P. Burke Center for Environmental Law at the Case Western Reserve University School of Law.
1:04.9	He's also a contributing editor to National Review online and a regular contributor to The
1:09.7	Volik Conspiracy.
1:10.9	Jonathan, it is wonderful to have you back on the show.
1:13.4	Great to be here.
1:15.4	The virtue of discussing cases early in June is we have a series of lower profile cases,
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