On July 9 , 2018 President Trump nominated D.C. Circuit Judge Brett Kavanaugh to replace retiring Justice Anthony Kennedy, often called the “swing justice”. Kavanaugh is President Trump’s second appointee to the Court after Justice Neil Gorsuch was confirmed in 2017. Should Judge Kavanaugh be confirmed, this may mark a momentous change to the Court’s ideological balance and jurisprudence. This episode explores what the appointments of Kavanaugh and Gorsuch might mean for the future of the Supreme Court and constitutional law.
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Brianne Gorod is the Constitutional Accountability Center’s chief counsel. She previously served as CAC’s Appellate Counsel.
Elizabeth Slattery is a legal fellow and appellate advocacy program manager at the Meese Center for Legal and Judicial Studies and Institute for Constitutional Government at the Heritage Foundation.
Jeffrey Rosen is the President and Chief Executive Officer of the National Constitution Center, the only institution in America chartered by Congress “to disseminate information about the United States Constitution on a nonpartisan basis.”
Related Decisions and Documents
- Opinion in Wisconsin Central Ltd. v. United States 585 U.S. ___ (2018) U.S. Supreme Court, June 21, 2018
- Opinion in Epic Systems Corp. v. Lewis 584 U.S. ___ (2018) U.S. Supreme Court, May 21, 2018
- Opinion in Carpenter v. United States 585 U.S. ___ (2018) U.S. Supreme Court, June 22, 2018
- Opinion in PHH Corp. v. CFPB, No. 15-1177 (2016) D.C. Circuit Court, October 11, 2016
- Opinion in Jones v. United States, No. 15-CF-322 (2017) D.C. Circuit Court, September 21, 2017
- Opinion in Garza v. Hargan, No. 17-5236 (2017) D.C. Circuit Court, October 24, 2017
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