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Textual Healing? Gorsuch, Scalia, Hugo Black and the Words of Law on the Supreme Court

Textual Healing? Gorsuch, Scalia, Hugo Black and the Words of Law on the Supreme Court

FromMy History Can Beat Up Your Politics


Textual Healing? Gorsuch, Scalia, Hugo Black and the Words of Law on the Supreme Court

FromMy History Can Beat Up Your Politics

ratings:
Length:
66 minutes
Released:
Apr 13, 2017
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

The textualism of conservative Justice Scalia and liberal Justice Hugo Black is contrasted and compared as we anticipate the arrival of Neil Gorsuch to the Court.  Gorsuch is a committed textualist.  What does that mean?  We look at that, we look at all of the different ways judges think, and the (often straw-manned) concept of a […]
Released:
Apr 13, 2017
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (100)

Since 2006, this podcast has been using history to elevate today's political debates. Bruce Carlson applies as much historical context as possible to politics and while he's at it, tells a few stories.