What to expect at the Supreme Court this year

We the People

National Constitution Center

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🗓️ 29 September 2016

⏱️ 48 minutes

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John Malcolm of the Heritage Foundation and Michele Jawando of the Center for American Progress discuss recent news from the high court and cases to watch in the new term. Get the latest constitutional news, and continue the conversation, on Facebook and Twitter. We want to know what you think of the podcast! Email us at editor@constitutioncenter.org. Please subscribe to We the People and 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 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. This show was engineered by David Stotz 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
0:09.9	to We The People, a Weekly Show of Constitutional Debate.
0:13.8	One of our listeners objected that I was a little theatrical in reading our congressional
0:17.0	motto, so I'm now going to read it less enthusiastically.
0:20.3	The National Constitution Center is the only institution in America chartered by Congress to disseminate in the Congress cracking up,
0:27.0	to disseminate information about the U.S. Constitution on a nonpartisan basis.
0:32.0	And today we hit pause on our candidates in a Constitution series
0:35.0	to preview the upcoming term at the Supreme Court,
0:38.0	which promises to be unlike any we've seen in years.
0:41.0	As per tradition, the court will begin hearing cases on the first Monday in October.
0:45.3	31 cases have been accepted for review, fewer than half the cases that the court typically
0:50.0	sees in one term.
0:53.2	The court was also active over the summer releasing orders about voting rights and transgender
0:56.9	rights about other issues.
0:59.3	Joining me to discuss the latest news from the High Court are two of America's leading court watchers and
1:05.6	legal advocates.
1:06.9	John Malcolm is director of the Edwin Meese The Third Center for Legal and Judicial Studies
1:11.2	and the Ed Gilbertson and Sherry Lindbergh
1:13.7	and Sherry Lindbergh, Gilbertson, senior legal fellow at the Heritage
1:16.0	Foundation.
1:17.0	John will be here at the National Constitution Center on October 11th
1:21.2	for a wonderful program, Trump versus Clinton, the future of the Supreme Court.
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