America's First Civil Rights Movement
Strict Scrutiny
00:00
The Non-Normal Phase of the Supreme Court
The Supreme Court justice is giving interviews with a lawyer before the court in the opinion pages of an obviously ideological journal. The interview signals that this court has moved into like a completely non-normal phase, and we shouldn't regard it as business as usual. In addition to being regular on the journalism interview, Sam Alito is also an historian, someone who favors a history and tradition approach to the Constitution. And so listeners, what's up next is an interview with an actual award-winning historian who does methodologically sound legal history.
Transcript
Play full episode
