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We the People

The Supreme Court’s next term

We the People

National Constitution Center

News Commentary, News, History

4.61.1K Ratings

🗓️ 21 September 2017

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

Michael Dorf and Ilya Shapiro join National Constitution Center president and CEO Jeffrey Rosen to preview a potentially blockbuster Supreme Court term starting in early October.

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0:00.0

I'm Jeffrey Rosen, president and CEO of the National Constitution Center, and welcome to We

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the People, a weekly show of constitutional debate.

0:11.6

The National Constitution Center is the only institution in America,

0:15.5

chartered by Congress to disseminate information about the U.S. Constitution on a nonpartisan

0:21.2

basis. And this week we look at a blockbuster Supreme Court term

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and the exciting cases on the docket

0:29.1

and that may be added to the docket soon.

0:31.6

The Supreme Court will hear arguments ranging from

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partisan redistricting to President Trump's travel ban to important cases involving

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the future of free speech and joining us to discuss these important

0:43.8

questions are two of America's leading scholars of constitutional law,

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National Constitution Center, Friends, and are We The People, Dream Team team Michael Dorf is the Robert S

0:55.1

Stephen's professor of law at Cornell Law School Ilia Shapiro is senior fellow

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in constitutional studies at the Cato Institute and editor-in-Chief of the Cato Supreme Court review.

1:05.0

Michael Eilia, thank you so much for joining.

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Good to be here as always.

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Good to be here, especially during Constitution Week,

1:11.0

and we did put out the new issue of the Supreme Court review. during Constitution Day conference

1:15.0

at Cato just yesterday, Monday.

1:19.6

So I'm Raring to go.

1:21.7

Thank you so much for reminding us to say happy 230th birthday,

1:25.6

US Constitution.

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