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Ave Maria in the Afternoon – October 28, 2024 – Hour 1

We discuss partisan attacks on the Supreme Court with John McGinnis.

 

Marcus’s Monologue: The Price of Liberty

The Statue of Liberty was dedicated on this day in 1886. Marcus looks back on the story and the meaning of liberty today.

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What we can learn from a middle-school election

With election a week away, many Americans are lamenting the state of our politics. When’s the last time you watched a debate or campaign speech that actually told you something about the candidate? Peter Laffin joins us with an example of how a middle-school election may have a lesson we can all learn.

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The Choice in This Election Is Clear: I Endorse My Nephew for Class Secretary

Peter Laffin is a staff writer for the National Catholic Register and a contributor at the Washington Examiner. His work has appeared in The Catholic Herald, The Catholic Thing, and RealClearPolitics

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Illegitimate Attacks on the Court’s Legitimacy

Journalists and professors have formed a ululating chorus mourning the loss of the Supreme Court’s legitimacy. Their laments often include suggestions about how that legitimacy might be regained. However, they conspicuously neglect to mention that the greatest threat to the Court comes not from within but from the baseless assaults that many of their colleagues have launched. We talk about it with John McGinnis.

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Illegitimate Attacks on the Court’s Legitimacy

 

John O. McGinnis is the George C. Dix Professor in Constitutional Law at Northwestern University and a Contributing Editor at Law & Liberty. His book Accelerating Democracy was published by Princeton University Press in 2012. McGinnis is also the coauthor with Mike Rappaport of Originalism and the Good Constitution published by Harvard University Press in 2013 . He is a graduate of Harvard College, Balliol College, Oxford, and Harvard Law School. He has published in leading law reviews, including the Harvard, Chicago, and Stanford Law Reviews and the Yale Law Journal, and in journals of opinion, including National Affairs and National Review.

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