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The Breyer Scale, Revisited

The Breyer Scale, Revisited

FromThe Citizen's Guide to the Supreme Court


The Breyer Scale, Revisited

FromThe Citizen's Guide to the Supreme Court

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Length:
49 minutes
Released:
Sep 25, 2016
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

This week's episode continues our weekly focus on individual Justices, with this week's Justice du jour being Stephen Breyer.  Brett and Nazim discuss Breyer's background and cover influential death penalty cases over the last four decades to see if there is traction on finding the death penalty unconstitutional.  Lastly, the current pending case of Moore v. Texas is covered, which asks whether or not the Court has the power to overturn State standards for instituting death that appear at face value to be out of touch.
Released:
Sep 25, 2016
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (100)

Brett and Nazim are two attorneys who hate being attorneys. In lieu of practicing law, they have instead developed a podcast to help make the Supreme Court more accessible to the average person. Each week, Brett and Nazim will discuss current Supreme Court cases and how they affect your daily life, while also ruminating on how their dreams of fame and fortune resulted in jokes about Star Wars and wondering how Ruth Bader Ginsburg thinks about Facebook. This Podcast is for entertainment purposes only and is not legal advice. If anything you hear leads you to believe you need legal advice, please contact an attorney immediately.