First Monday in October — Previewing the Supreme Court’s 2014 term
ListenGuests: Lisa McElroy and Kermit Roosevelt
The Supreme Court’s 2014-2015 term begins on Monday. We’ll take a look at the cases on the docket and those the Court is likely to consider –everything from religious freedom in prison and threatening language on Facebook to same sex marriage and pregnancy discrimination. Our guests are constitutional law professors LISA McELROY of Drexel University’s Thomas R. Kline School of Law and KERMIT ROOSEVELT from University of Pennsylvania Law School.
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