This week I sit down with one of my favorite guests, Tom Keck of Syracuse University and CNY Solidarity. Professor Keck is one of the foremost area expert on the Supreme Court. We talk about the controversial decisions from the last term as well as some of the ethical scandals surrounding the court. Enjoy.
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Dustin M. Czarny 
Please forward to Tom, I don’t have his email.
Hi Dustin, I just watch your show with Tom. It was really important and informative.
However, I feel like Tom, a lot, used the words “right and left” in the beginning” and during and you both used the words conservatives. I don’t remember if the opposite of “conservative “ was used…but I feel like they are buzz words these days and people identify and turn off. While the terms are “self-evident” in some ways, I am not sure they are helpful. One, we have social conservatives and economic and political conservatives. They do most often overlap. But do we need right and left and conservative defined more clearly and not be “hemmed in” by the words. Are we talking about states rights vs. federal rights? And as they say ‘States Rights for WHO?”
In the post Civil War era States Rights became code for White Privilege and domination. The Confederacy leaders were quite clear that state’s rights meant slavery as we can see by how many times they used the right to have have slaves and own Black Americans was used in their justifications for the war.
But what does conservativism mean and state’s rights mean now? We are having a fight now between what role the Federal government CAN /SHOULD play and what roles it HAS played? It is not like the feds are the good guys and the states are the bad guys historically.
Anyway, I am wandering but feel we should try to help define those words even though it takes longer. Mary Cunningham. Thank you for both taking the time to work through this morass.
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