Unpacking the Supreme Court’s Tech Term

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🗓️ 25 January 2024

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Several recent cases before the Supreme Court have raised important questions at the intersection of technology and law. In this episode, Alex Abdo of the Knight First Amendment Institute, Clay Calvert of the American Enterprise Institute, and David Greene of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, join Jeffrey Rosen for a conversation exploring key tech cases, including Netchoice v Paxton, Murthy v. Missouri, Lindke v. Freed, and O’Connor-Ratcliff v. Garnier. This program was streamed live on January 16, 2024. Resources: Knight Institute amicus brief (in support of neither party) Moody v. NetChoice & NetChoice v. Paxton Clay Calvert, “Friends of the Court, Friends of the First Amendment: Exploring Amicus Brief Support for Platforms’ Editorial Independence,” AEI (Dec. 22, 2023) Knight Institute amicus brief in Murthy v. Missouri (in support of neither party) Clay Calvert, “Persuasion or Coercion? Understanding the Government’s Position in Murthy v. Missouri, Part I,” AEI (Jan. 8, 2024) David Greene, “In Jawboning Cases, there’s no getting away from textual analysis,” Knight First Amendment Institute (Nov. 7, 2023) David Greene, EFF Amicus Brief in O’Connor-Ratcliff v. Garnier and Lindke v. Freed (in support of Lindke and Garnier) Miami Herald Publishing Company v. Tornillo (1974) Questions or comments about the show? Email us at [email protected].  Continue today’s conversation on Facebook and Twitter using @ConstitutionCtr.  Sign up to receive Constitution Weekly, our email roundup of constitutional news and debate, at bit.ly/constitutionweekly.  You can find transcripts for each episode on the podcast pages in our Media Library.

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0:00.0	Hello friends. I'm Jeffrey Rosen, president and CEO of the National Constitution
0:06.8	Center and welcome to We The People, a weekly show of constitutional debate.
0:11.2	The National Constitution Center is a nonpartisan nonprofit chartered by Congress to increase
0:16.2	awareness and understanding of the Constitution among the American people.
0:21.0	There are several cases before the Supreme Court that raise important questions at the intersection of law and technology.
0:27.0	In this episode, I was honored to have Alex Abdo, Clay Calvert, and David Green join me for a wide-ranging conversation exploring the key
0:35.0	tech cases before the court this term.
0:38.1	This episode was originally aired on America's Town Hall.
0:41.8	Please enjoy the conversation.
0:45.0	This is the beginning of our 2024 winter town hall season.
0:50.0	We've got some great programs coming up including conversations on David Hume, Harriet
0:56.2	Tubman, Abraham Lincoln, the state of American democracy and more.
1:02.3	I'm thrilled to share as well that on President's day I'm
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1:09.4	pursuit of happiness how classical writers on virtue inspired the lives of the founders and defined America.
1:17.2	Jeffrey Goldberg, the editor-in-chief of the Atlantic, will join me in a conversation at the
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1:27.7	about it throughout the winter. So excited to talk with you about the pursuit of
1:32.2	happiness and this wonderful moral philosophy that inspired
1:36.0	the founders to think of happiness not as feeling good but being good, not the pursuit of pleasure,
1:41.5	but the pursuit of virtue.
1:43.4	We will have a great discussion today about a crucial topic,
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