The Supreme Court issued several influential rulings in its most recent session—and last week Justice Anthony Kennedy announced that he will be retiring. Host Dan Loney discusses the impact of the rulings on these cases and the potential makeup of the court’s political leanings moving forward now that Kennedy is stepping down, with Ted Ruger, Dean of Penn Law and Bernard G. Segal Professor of Law, and Randy Beck, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Justice Thomas O. Marshall Chair of Constitutional Law at the University of Georgia School of Law and former clerk to Justice Anthony Kennedy on Knowledge at Wharton.
July 2, 2018
• 32 min listen
Updated: July 3, 2018
with Ted Ruger and Randy Beck
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