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Common Ground with Jane Whitney

SCOTUS: Triumph or Tragedy?

This 12-episode series features deep-dive conversations with the nation’s leading thinkers, leaders and experts around the nation’s most important issues. It explores national public affairs issues from government and politics to the environment and global affairs, with a mission to inform and inspire communities through shared dialogue and providing thought-provoking suggestions and solutions.

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SCOTUS: Triumph or Tragedy?

Season 2 Episode 203 | 56m 46s | CC

Conservatives’ signature political achievement has been the expansion of the Supreme Court’s conservative majority. Case by case, the Supreme Court has rewritten the rules that have long structured the way we live, how we are governed, how we worship, even who we are. It's hard to find any aspect of daily life beyond the reach of the court's sticky tentacles.

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