Live at America's Town Hall: George F. Will

Check out this crossover episode from our companion podcast Live at America’s Town Hall! This week’s episode features a Town Hall program here at the National Constitution Center with Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist George F. Will. Will discusses his new book The Conservative Sensibility and his political and constitutional philosophy with Jeffrey Rosen.

The nation’s best-known transgender student, Gavin Grimm, has won his discrimination case against his old high school—for the second time. The new victory came on August 9, four years after he first filed his lawsuit, three years after his first court victory, more than two years after the Supreme Court opted not to decide the case, and two years after his high school graduation.

On August 12, 1937, President Franklin D. Roosevelt nominated then-Senator Hugo Black of Alabama to the Supreme Court.

As the Panama Canal celebrates its birthday, August 15, the bold act of one U.S. president still resonates as a stroke of policy genius or a grand expansion of executive power.

The Supreme Court will hear New York State Rifle & Pistol Association Inc. v. City of New York—a challenge to New York's ban on transporting a licensed, locked and unloaded handgun to a home or shooting range outside city limits—this fall. Challengers argue that the law violates the Second Amendment, the Commerce Clause, and the constitutional "right to travel." This week, Solicitor General Noel Francisco asked for argument time at the Court to support the challenge on behalf of the Trump administration. Meanwhile, Senators Sheldon Whitehouse, Mazie Hirono, Richard Blumenthal, Richard Durbin, and Kirsten Gillibrand filed an amicus brief in support of the city of New York's regulation.

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"The Citizens of each State shall be entitled to all Privileges and Immunities of Citizens in the several States. A Person charged in any State with Treason, Felony, or other Crime, who shall flee from Justice, and be found in another State, shall on Demand of the executive Authority of the State from which he fled, be delivered up, to be removed to the State having Jurisdiction of the Crime..."

Article IV, Section 2 by Ariela Gross and David R. Upham

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Former U.S. Solicitor General Paul Clement, legal scholars Erwin Chemerinsky and Frederick Lawrence, and Slate’s Dahlia Lithwick, examine the Supreme Court’s 2018-19 term, which includes significant cases regarding religious displays, the death penalty, partisan gerrymandering, the census, and more. Melissa Garlick, civil rights national counsel for the Anti-Defamation League, moderates. This program was presented in partnership with the Anti-Defamation League.

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In his new book, If We Can Keep It: How the Republic Collapsed and How It Might be Saved, Daily Beast special correspondent Michael Tomasky offers an original account of the deep roots of political polarization in America and—in a refreshing and hopeful twist—offers an agenda for how to fix it. Jeffrey Rosen, president and CEO of the National Constitution Center, moderates.

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