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The Making of the Supreme Court's Conservative 'Supermajority'

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KQED

News Commentary, News, Politics

4.2 • 727 Ratings

🗓️ 26 June 2023

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

The Supreme Court radically changed the country in just three days last June when it eliminated Americans’ constitutional right to an abortion and weakened popular gun laws. That’s according to Brennan Center for Justice president Michael Waldman, who says the Court is poised to do so again this term by employing its own extreme version of originalism. We’ll talk to Waldman about major cases on voting and affirmative action and the political forces that empower the Court’s hard right faction. Waldman’s new book is “The Supermajority: How the Supreme Court Divided America.” Guests: Michael Waldman, president of the Brennan Center for Justice, NYU School of Law; author, "The Supermajority: How the Supreme Court Divided America" Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Coming up on forum, in just three days last June, the Supreme Court radically changed the country. It eliminated Americans' 50-year-old constitutional right to an abortion and weakened popular gun laws.

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That's according to NYU's Michael Waldman, who says the court is poised to do so again as it weighs in on affirmative action,

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voting, and other national issues this term.

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Waldman joins us to talk about the political forces that empower the court's hard right

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wing and why he thinks the court is heading toward a catastrophic loss of institutional legitimacy.

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Waldman's new book is The Supermajority, How the Supreme Court Divided America.

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That's next after this news.

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This is Forum. I'm Marisa Lagos and Formina Kim. It has been one year since Dobbs when the

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Supreme Court took away Americans constitutional right to an abortion,

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