Two Federal Judges on How They Interpret the Constitution
We the People
National Constitution Center
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🗓️ 10 October 2019
⏱️ 56 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Jeffrey Rosen, president and CEO of the National Constitution Center, and welcome |
| 0:07.8 | to We The People, a weekly show of constitutional debate. |
| 0:11.8 | The National Constitution Center is a nonpartisan nonprofit chartered by Congress to increase awareness and understanding of the Constitution among the American people. |
| 0:22.0 | Last week, the National Constitution Center traveled to Washington, D.C. |
| 0:26.0 | to host Clerks at 100, a celebration of the 100th anniversary of the Supreme Court Clerickships. |
| 0:33.3 | We hosted a symposium featuring panelists who have worked as clerks for Supreme Court justices, |
| 0:38.6 | and I had the wonderful opportunity to sit down with two of America's greatest judges, Diane Wood and |
| 0:45.9 | Jeffrey Sutton. Judge Diane Wood is chief judge of the US Court of Appeals for |
| 0:50.4 | the Seventh Circuit. She clerked for Justice Harry Blackman, Judge Jeffrey Sutton sits |
| 0:56.1 | on the 6th Circuit, he clerked for Justice Lewis Powell and Justice Antonin Scalia. |
| 1:03.0 | In the conversation that follows, Judge Wood and Judge Sutton share how their time, working for their justices, |
| 1:10.0 | influenced their approach to judging, and to interpreting the Constitution. |
| 1:15.0 | The conversation was hosted at George Washington Law School in partnership with the |
| 1:19.1 | GW Law Review. |
| 1:20.8 | Here are Judges Wood and Sutton live from DC. |
| 1:25.0 | Welcome to the third of our panels in this rich and illuminating day long discussion celebrating the 100th anniversary of the Supreme Court clerkships. |
| 1:37.0 | Once again for those who were just tuning in I'm Jeffrey Rosen, the head of the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia and a law professor here at George |
| 1:44.6 | Washington University. |
| 1:46.3 | The Constitution Center is so honored to convene former Supreme Court clerks to discuss how |
| 1:51.4 | their clerkships influence their lives and I am so honored |
| 1:56.4 | and thrilled to sit here with two of America's greatest appellate judges to |
| 2:01.7 | distinguished legal intellectuals and jurists who I just had the |
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