Major Decisions Ahead for the Supreme Court

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🗓️ 7 October 2022

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

In its last term, the Supreme Court dropped bombshell after bombshell—marking major conservative advances on gun rights, separation of church and state, environmental protection, and reproductive rights. “The Court is not behaving as an institution invested in social stability,” the contributor Jeannie Suk Gersen wrote in July. She joins David Remnick to preview the Court’s fall term.

Plus, after covering the landslide victory for pro-choice forces in Kansas this summer, the contributor Peter Slevin has been following midterm races in Michigan, where voters this fall will decide not only on state and congressional races but also on a constitutional amendment that would guarantee the right to an abortion in the state.

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0:00.0	This is The New Yorker Radio Hour, a co-production of WNYC Studios and The New Yorker.
0:10.1	This is The New Yorker Radio Hour, I'm David Remdick.
0:13.2	In its last term, the Supreme Court dropped one bombshell after another.
0:17.3	The new 6-3 conservative majority left John Roberts' more or less incremental approach
0:23.6	firmly behind the court.
0:25.6	And the court now advanced major conservative positions on gun rights, the separation of
0:30.7	church and state, environmental protection, and of course the decision in dobs which
0:36.1	overturned Roe v Wade.
0:38.2	The court is not behaving as an institution invested in social stability, our contributor
0:43.3	Jeanne Sukersen wrote in July, and that was putting it politely.
0:47.8	I wanted to talk with Jeanne now about the court's new term, which just began, and what
0:52.7	other bombshells may fall.
0:54.6	Jeanne Sukersen is a professor at Harvard Law School, and she was once a clerk herself
0:58.9	on the Supreme Court working for Justice David Souter.
1:03.1	Jeanne of the many cases on the docket for the Supreme Court, what are you watching
1:07.2	most closely?
1:08.2	Well, I'm watching most closely the affirmative action cases that the court will hear at the
1:14.0	end of this month.
1:16.1	And those are cases against Harvard and a University of North Carolina.
1:19.8	I can help, but ask, you're at Harvard.
1:22.2	Yes.
1:23.2	And in law school, it's got to be the talk of the law school.
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