More Statesmanship, and State Constitutions - Special Guests Steven B. Smith and Vikram D. Amar
About this episode
The episode discusses the Missouri legislature's attempt to manipulate state constitution provisions and features interviews with Vikram D. Amar and Steven B. Smith.
The big issue in the news today is the Missouri legislature’s attempt to avoid the state constitution’s referendum provisions in order to impose a legislative map that would advantage Republicans to the tune of all but one of the state’s seats in the US House. The Supreme Court is asked to intervene, and Justice Kavanaugh - after we taped - declined to do so. This may not be end of the story, but our guest Vik Amar is on top of it together with Akhil. Listen to get the details, and check out Scotusblog.com to stay updated - Akhil and Vik have a new column there. Meanwhile, our interview with Professor Steven Smith discussing his new book, On Statesmanship, precedes this discussion this week - don’t miss that, either! CLE credit is available for lawyers and judges from podcast.njsba.com.
People in this episode
Host: Akhil Reed Amar
Guests: Vikram D. Amar, Steven B. Smith
Topics covered
- state constitutions
- legislative maps
- Supreme Court
- statesmanship
- political advantage
Keywords
- Missouri legislature
- referendum provisions
- legislative map
- Supreme Court
- statesmanship
- politics
- Akhil Reed Amar
- Vikram D. Amar
- Steven B. Smith
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: Supreme Court, Scotusblog.com
Books & works: On Statesmanship
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