Open Forum, Part 1
Viewers responded to the question “What is your view of the Justice Alito flag controversy?”
1,194 viewsViewers responded to the question “What is your view of the Justice Alito flag controversy?”
1,194 views“Congratulations on destroying the United States Senate Judiciary Committee,” said Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) to Committee Chair Dick Durbin (D-IL) during a tense meeting. The committee voted o…
7,197 viewsViewers commented on former President Donald Trump’s legal challenges and the Supreme Court.
1,071 viewsFormer Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor talked about her book, Out of Order: Stories from the History of the Supreme Court, in which she presents a history of the High Court and pro…
1,270 viewsFormer Justice Sandra Day O’Connor was interviewed as part of C-SPAN’s Supreme Court Week. She talked about the role the Founding Fathers envisioned for the Supreme Court. She also talked ab…
1,991 viewsSupreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett said the Court would benefit from a code of ethics. She spoke about this topic and many others during a conversation with faculty and students at the …
1,716 viewsFormer Washington Post executive editor Martin Baron (Collision of Power) and University of Texas law professor Stephen Vladeck (The Shadow Docket) discussed the impact of power, politics, a…
190 viewsViewers commented on the Supreme Court’s adoption of an ethics code for justices and the potential for a government shutdown on November 17, 2023.
1,343 viewsGreg Stohr talked about the ethics code for Supreme Court justices.
379 viewsJustice Elena Kagan acknowledged the Senate bill to establish a Supreme Court code of ethics, saying, “we’re not imperial,” and that, like other branches, the Court, too, is subject to check…
1,907 viewsLaw professor Stephen Vladeck argued that the Supreme Court increasingly uses obscure rulings to change the law with no accountability to the public. BookPeople in Austin, Texas, hosted this…
526 viewsBrian Fallon talked about Supreme Court reform and the state of the progressive legal movement.
631 viewsMichael Waldman talked about efforts to reform the Supreme Court and his book, The Supermajority: How the Supreme Court Divided America.
611 viewsSenate Judiciary Committee Chair Dick Durbin (D-IL) said he hopes Chief Justice John Roberts establishes a Supreme Court code of conduct. Senator Durbin’s floor remarks came one week prior t…
62 viewsAuthor and CNN Supreme Court analyst Joan Biskupic detailed the political and judicial transformation of the U.S. Supreme Court during and after the Trump administration. The Commonwealth Cl…
299 viewsViewers responded to the question “Should there be term limits for Supreme Court justices?”
1,188 viewsJoshua Kaplan talked about his report that says Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito took an unreported luxury trip with a Republican donor who later had business before the Court.
899 viewsUniversity of Texas law Professor Stephen Vladeck talked about his new book, The Shadow Docket, on the Supreme Court’s increasing use of emergency actions to change the law without public he…
1,245 viewsDemand Justice co-founder Brian Fallon talked about the progressive group’s push for a code of ethics for Supreme Court justices.
496 views“I’m doubly glad to be back,” said Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) as he and Senate Republican leadership spoke to the press following their weekly party lunch meeting. This marked Le…
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