Generation Alito
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This morning the Senate Judiciary Committee approved the nomination of Samuel Alito by a 10-8 vote. Now the nomination will move to the full Senate, with a vote expected as early as tomorrow. So as early as tomorrow we may have a new SCOTUS Justice. And with him, a very different looking court. As we say around here, how are you counting to five?
We’re following up our November SCOTUS show. But rather than talking to the usual grey-hairs, we’d like to have on a sample bunch of law students about to begin their careers. What does the conversation sound like amongst the next generation of lawyers, judges, and legal scholars, whose careers are about to be reshaped by the decisions the new court will ultimately hand down? They’re going to be the ones to uphold and/or test the law, maybe even before this very court. What are they talking about? And how are they counting to five?
Ann Althouse
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Robert W. & Irma M. Arthur-Bascom Professor of Law, The University of Wisconsin Law School
Open Source guest on the SCOTUS Fight Decoder Ring show
Blaine Evanson
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Third-year law student, Columbia University
Symposium Director, Columbia Federalist Society
Senior Editor, Columbia Law Review
Samantha Harper
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Second-year law student, Columbia University
Legal intern, Planned Parenthood
President and Co-founder, Columbia chapter of Law Students for Choice
Vice President of Student Fellowships, Public Interest Law Foundation at Columbia
Peter Romer-Friedman
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Third-year law student, Columbia University
Former Legislative Representative, United Steel Workers of America
Co-founder, The Worker Rights Consortium
Managing Editor, Columbia Journal of Law and Social Problems
Spencer Marsden
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Third-year law student, Columbia University
President, Federalist Society at Columbia
Former member, Judicial Confirmation Network
Jason Peilmeier
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Second-year law student, Yale University
Co-Author, The Alito Project
Soon to be Student Director, Yale Criminal Defense Clinic