Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Brenda Hale: Creating law from the bench; Podcast on the morality of 'Joker'.
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Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Brenda Hale: Creating law from the bench
By Trey Dimsdale • October 23, 2019
Justice Ginsburg and Lady Hale give a talk at Georgetown University ([link removed] )
Most judges never attain celebrity status, but Lady Brenda Hale -- president of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom -- has secured a rare popular prominence that is not unlike that of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, an American judge of similar jurisprudential and social sensibilities. Lady Hale is more than a decade Justice Ginsburg’s junior, but the similarities between them are remarkable. Both were law professors at some of the most prestigious institutions in their countries, both married eminent legal scholars, and both served as judges on lower courts before being seated on their nations’ highest courts. Both are peculiarly noted for unique fashion trends -- Lady Hale for her brooches and Justice Ginsburg for her jabots. Plenty of judges have idiosyncrasies, but what is it about these two that have resulted in this type of status? Among so many commonalities there is the “x factor” in the formula for celebrity -- both Hale and Ginsburg have proven willing to use their positions to advance social positions of the left that require the creation of law rather than deference to it.
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Acton Line podcast: The morality of 'Joker'; How Clarence Thomas is changing SCOTUS
October 23, 2019
Joaquin Phoenix as Arthur Fleck in Joker ([link removed] )
The new super villain drama 'Joker' has shattered box office records and gained much controversial media attention along the way. Set to top $900 million worldwide, the dark film from director Todd Phillips and actor Joaquin Phoenix is already being heralded as the biggest R-rated movie ever. So why has 'Joker' been such a hit? Christian Toto, award winning movie critic and editor at Hollywood in Toto, breaks it down, explaining how the film touches on themes like mental illness, morality and even empathy. After that, Myron Magnet, editor at large at City Journal, joins the show to talk about his newest book, “Clarence Thomas and the Lost Constitution,” which explores the life of Justice Thomas and how the Justice's approach to the Constitution is changing the Supreme Court.
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