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Podcast: Commonwealth Club of California Podcast
Episode: Justice Stephen Breyer: Reading the Constitution
Description: What is a textualist, and why does that judicial philosophy dominate the current U.S. Supreme Court?Join us for a special online event as recently retired Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer gives us his provocative analysis that deconstructs the textualist philosophy of the current Supreme Court’s supermajority and makes his case for a better way to interpret the Constitution. Textualists claim that the right way to interpret the Constitution and statutes is to read the text carefully and examine the language as it was understood at the time the documents were written.This, ho...