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The episode discusses recent Supreme Court rulings on gun rights and the role of race in constitutional law.

If its June, its time for Supreme Court decisions. On today’s show we will explore recent rulings on two large topics. The first is the extent of the second amendment. That’s the gun rights Amendment and the right to bear arms. Then we will turn to the broad question, is the Constitution colorblind? What role does and should race play in Supreme Court decisions? [ dur: 58mins ] Robert J. Spitzer is Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus of Political Science Department at SUNY Cortland, New York. He is the author of Guns Across America: Reconciling Gun Rules And Rights , The Politics of Gun Control , and The Gun Dilemma . Eric J. Segall, Ashe Family Chair Professor of Law and the Executive Director of Emmet J. Bondurant Center for Constitutional Law, Practice and Democracy at Georgia State University. He is the author of Originalism as Faith and Supreme Myths: Why the Supreme Court Is Not a Court and Its Justices Are Not Judges . Carlton Larson is Martin Luther King Jr. Professor of Law at the University of California at Davis. He is the author of The Origins of Adversary Criminal Trial in America and One Nation Under Law: The Meaning of the Declaration of Independence . This…

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Guests: Robert J. Spitzer, Eric J. Segall, Carlton Larson

Topics covered

• Supreme Court decisions
• gun rights
• colorblind justice
• race in law
• Second Amendment

Keywords

• Supreme Court
• gun rights
• Second Amendment
• colorblind justice
• race
• law
• politics

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Organizations: SUNY Cortland, Georgia State University, University of California at Davis

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