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We the People

National Constitution Center

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🗓️ 29 June 2017

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Brianne Gorod of the Constitutional Accountability Center and Ilya Shapiro of the Cato Institute break down the busy final days of the Court's 2016-2017 term. Continue today’s conversation on Facebook and Twitter using @ConstitutionCtr. We want to know what you think of the podcast! Email us at editor@constitutioncenter.org. Sign up to receive Constitution Weekly, our email roundup of constitutional news and debate. Subscribe to We the People and our companion podcast, Live at America’s Town Hall, on iTunes, Stitcher, or your favorite podcast app. We the People is a member of Slate’s Panoply network. Check out the full roster of podcasts at Panoply.fm. Despite our congressional charter, the National Constitution Center is a private nonprofit; we receive little government support, and we rely on the generosity of people around the country who are inspired by our nonpartisan mission of constitutional debate and education. Please consider becoming a member to support our work, including this podcast. Visit constitutioncenter.org to learn more. Today’s show was engineered by Jason Gregory and produced by Nicandro Iannacci. Research was provided by Lana Ulrich and Tom Donnelly. The host of We the People is Jeffrey Rosen.

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0:00.0	I'm Jeffrey Rosen, president and CEO of the National Constitution Center, and welcome to We
0:08.3	the People, a weekly show of constitutional debate.
0:12.0	The National Constitution Center is the only
0:14.4	institution in America chartered by Congress to disseminate information about
0:18.9	the US Constitution on a nonpartisan-partisan basis.
0:23.0	And on today's show, we recap the busy final weeks
0:26.2	of the 2016 Supreme Court term.
0:29.4	The court just announced big decisions
0:30.9	on religious liberty, racial gerrymandering, and free speech, and the justices
0:35.2	accepted a series of blockbuster cases for next year, including challenges to President Trump's
0:41.7	travel and refugee ban.
0:43.2	Joining me to make sense of this whirlwind cascade of constitutional news are two of America's
0:48.9	leading court watchers, friends of We The People, a veritable constitutional dream team.
0:54.2	Brienne Gorod is Chief Counsel of the Constitutional Accountability Center in Washington, D.C.
1:00.2	and Ilia Shapiro's Senior Fellow in Constitutional Studies at the Cato Institute
1:04.2	and Editor-in-Chief of the Cato Supreme Court Review.
1:07.1	Brian, Ilia, thank you so much for joining.
1:09.4	Thanks for having us.
1:10.8	Good to be back.
1:11.8	Let us jump right in on the question of your overall impressions
1:18.2	of the term.
1:19.9	It was a remarkable to see this eight member court reaching consensus rather than division
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