Season 2, Episode 15 (Show 67): Rights and “Justice”

April 12, 2022

As Judge Jackson is confirmed, Akhil, our guest Vik Amar, and Andy discuss how the questioning could have resulted in a deep discussion of rights.  It didn’t, so we give it to you instead.

Judge Jackson – or is it Justice Jackson (we discuss) – is confirmed, but we aren’t done discussing it yet.  Distilling the non-nonsensical questioning down, it really was an attempt to probe into the question of rights; who decides, and how, what rights Americans have?  We listen to the colloquy and use it as a jumping-off point for a wide-ranging discussion of fundamental, enumerated, and unenumerated rights – among other things.