The Politics of the Supreme Court: From RBG to Amy Coney Barrett

Let's Find Common Ground

USC Dornsife Center for the Political Future

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🗓️ 25 January 2022

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Center Co-Directors Bob Shrum and Mike Murphy join the Spring 2022 CPF Fellows to unpack the latest SCOTUS headlines and trends. They discuss everything from the Supreme Court’s denial of President Trump's executive privilege over the January 6 insurrection to their upholding Texas' abortion law to their blocking Biden’s federal vaccine mandate. They also explore what the growing division among the Justices means for the future of the majority conservative court.

Ralph Neas - Former Executive Director, The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights; Senior Counsel on Voting Rights, The Century Foundation; Spring 2022 Fellow, Center for the Political Future
Todd S. Purdum - Journalist, Former National Editor and Political Correspondent for Vanity Fair; Spring 2022 Fellow, Center for the Political Future
Amy Turk, LCSW - Social Worker; CEO, Downtown Women’s Center; Spring 2022 Fellow, Center for the Political Future
Bob Shrum - Director, Center for the Political Future; Warschaw Chair in Practical Politics, USC Dornsife
Mike Murphy - Co-Director, Center for the Political Future; NBC Political Analyst

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0:00.0	Welcome to the bully pulpit from the University of Southern California Center for the Political Future.
0:11.7	Our podcast brings together America's top politicians, journalists, academics, and strategists from across the political spectrum for discussions on hot button issues where we
0:21.5	respect each other and respected truth. We hope you enjoy these conversations.
0:29.2	Good afternoon. I'm Bob Shrum, the Warshaw Professor of Politics at USC Dorncite, the director of
0:36.9	the Center for the Political Future.
0:38.9	I'm here with Mike Murphy, the co-director of the center, for our first bully pulpit of the second
0:44.8	semester, the politics of the Supreme Court, from RBG to Amy Coney-Berick.
0:51.0	I want to introduce our panelists, Ralph Nees, senior counsel on voting rights
0:55.4	at the Century Foundation. He's directed two dozen national campaigns that strengthen the nation's
1:01.9	major civil rights laws, going all the way back to the Reagan and Bush administration,
1:06.2	even before that. He's a spring 22 fellow at the Center for the Political Future.
1:11.5	His course is called Democracy at Risk.
1:14.6	What happened and where do we go from here?
1:17.7	It's taught Mondays from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m., interested students can register on our website.
1:24.8	Todd Purdom is a veteran political journalist. He's written for the Atlantic. He was a
1:29.6	senior writer for Politico, a contributing editor at Vanity Fair, and one of the great New York
1:35.1	Times reporters. He's teaching a course in Dornsychef this semester, media and message,
1:41.3	great races from the Senate to the White House on Tuesdays and Thursdays from
1:45.5	2 p.m. to 320, and it's already filled up. Amy Turk is the CEO of the Downtown
1:51.9	Women's Center, which deals with homeless women on Skid Row. She's a spring 2022 fellow at the
1:58.9	Center for the Political Future. Her course, Solutions to Homelessness
2:02.9	through a racial and gender equity lens will be taught Wednesdays from 3.30 p.m. to 4.50
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