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17: Recap of DNC Convention Day 1 Oct 02, 2020

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Jill Wine-Banks and Victor Shi, both delegates for Vice President Joe Biden in Illinois recap day 1 of the DNC Convention.

16: DNC Convention Preview with Jill and Victor Oct 02, 2020

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In this episode, co-hosts Jill Wine-Banks, the only woman on the Watergate Trial Team, MSNBC Legal Analyst, author of "The Watergate Girl," and delegate for Joe Biden, and Victor Shi, the youngest Biden delegate in Illinois and incoming student at UCLA, sit down to share their thoughts on the DNC Convention, their experience running as a delegate, and what they are looking forward to as the DNC Convention unfolds.

You can tune into the DNC Convention and see the planned speakers and events here: https://www.demconvention.com/schedule-and-speakers/

Stay tuned for more special DNC Convention coverage with Jill, Victor, and other exciting guests lined up later this week.

15: Kamala Harris, the First Amendment, and Cancel Culture with Kathy Griffin Oct 02, 2020

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In this episode, we sit down with Kathy Griffin, a two-time Grammy and Emmy award winner and a trailblazer for women in comedy, to discuss her thoughts on Kamala Harris being selected as Joe Biden's running mate, the fragility of the First Amendment in our current political climate, cancel culture, and Kanye West running for president. To watch Kathy's new film, "A Hell of a Story," click here: https://www.amazon.com/Kathy-Griffin-Hell-Story/dp/B07VVWGC85

Intergenerational Politics is a podcast created by Jill Wine-Banks and Victor Shi dedicated to engaging all generations in politics with weekly unfiltered conversations with experts across the nation.

14: Reopening Schools with Elaine Maimon Oct 02, 2020

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In this episode, we sit down with Elaine Maimon to discuss reopening schools and the future of higher education amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Elaine was the president of Governors State University (GSU), the only public university in the South Suburbs of Chicago. Through her thirteen years as its president, she helped lead GSU through the Great Recession of 2008-9, the Illinois budget crisis and in the last months of her presidency, the first phase of the COVID-19 pandemic. Before heading GSU, Dr. Maimon was Chancellor of the University of Alaska Anchorage and Vice President of Arizona State University, where she led the West Campus. She has also served on the boards of the American Council on Education (2015-20), the American Association of Colleges and Universities (AAC&U), and will soon be at the American Council on Education (ACE) as a special advisor to its President. She is a prolific writer in professional publications and is the author of Leading Academic Change: Vision, Strategy, Transformation. To read her latest article, click here: https://www.insidehighered.com/views/2020/07/30/higher-ed-institutions-should-use-covid-crisis-rethink-their-systems-and-create-new#.XyKy4rxfwaw.email

13: Racial Justice and Equality with Rashawn Ray Oct 02, 2020

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In this episode, we discuss the ways we can achieve racial justice and equality in the United States with Rashawn Ray, a David M. Rubenstein Fellow in Governance Studies at The Brookings Institution and Professor of Sociology and Executive Director of the Lab for Applied Social Science Research (LASSR) at the University of Maryland, College Park.

12: Unpacking Bill Barr's Testimony with Asha Rangappa Oct 02, 2020

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In this episode, we talk with Asha Rangappa, CNN Legal Analyst, Senior Lecturer at Yale University's Jackson Institute for Global Affairs, former FBI Special Agent, and former Associate Dean at Yale Law School, about Attorney General Bill Barr's recent testimony to the House Judiciary Committee and the consequences of Barr's testimony in 2020 and beyond.

11: Federal Troops in Portland from the Perspective of 2 Portland Protesters Oct 02, 2020

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In this episode, we talk to two protesters from Portland Oregon, Joel Barker and Sharon Meieran, about their experience protesting in Portland as well as their thoughts on federal troops coming into Portland and other cities across America. Joel is the head of communications for the Multnomah County Democratic Party in Portland and Sharon is a county commissioner in Portland.

10: SCOTUS Debrief Part 2 with Leah Litman, University of Michigan Law Professor Oct 02, 2020

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In this 2nd part of our Supreme Court debrief installment, with University of Michigan Law Professor Leah Litman, we discuss the DACA case, in which the Supreme Court ruled against the Trump administration’s rescission of the Obama DACA program because it was “arbitrary and capricious.” We also discuss Little Sisters of the Poor v. Pennsylvania, also known as the Contraceptive Coverage case. We finally take a broader look at where the Roberts court stands on a crucial issue for America’s future in the 2020 election and beyond: voting rights.

Professor Litman teaches and writes about constitutional law, federal post-conviction review, and federal sentencing at the University of Michigan Law School. In addition, she is one of the co-hosts and creators of Strict Scrutiny, a podcast about that examines the U.S. Supreme Court and other legal decisions. Professor Litman was also part of the litigation team in Garcia v. United States, one of the challenges to Trump’s rescission of the DACA program and was on the brief for Whole Woman's Health v. Hellerstedt.

9: Federal Troops in Cities Across America with Juliette Kayyem Oct 02, 2020

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In this episode, with Juliette Kayyem, we discuss the recent disturbing events involving federal agents from the Department of Homeland Security and other governmental agencies going into the city of Portland, Oregon and now threatening to come to Chicago, Illinois and other cities. We also talk about whether this use of federal force is legal, whether it is a wise policy, whether it is an appropriate response to protests in the aftermath of the devastating killings of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and other Black lives in America.

We are joined by Juliette Kayyem, who is currently the Senior Belfer Lecturer in International Security at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, where she is faculty chair of the Homeland Security and Security and Global Health Projects. She is also the author of Security Mom, a memoir that explores the intersection, and commonalities, of her life in homeland security and her life as a mother and appears frequently on CNN as their on-air national security analyst. Most recently, she was President Obama’s Assistant Secretary for Intergovernmental Affairs at the Department of Homeland Security. There she played a pivotal role in major operations including handling of the H1N1 pandemic and the BP Oil Spill response; she also organized major policy efforts in critical infrastructure protection and community resiliency. Juliette has also served as a member of the National Commission on Terrorism, a legal advisor to US Attorney General Janet Reno, and a trial attorney and counselor in the Civil Rights Division at the Justice Department.

Intergenerational Politics is a video series created by Jill Wine-Banks and Victor Shi dedicated to engaging all generations in politics with weekly unfiltered conversations with experts across the nation.

8: SCOTUS Debrief Part 1 with Geoffrey Stone, University of Chicago Law School Professor Oct 02, 2020

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This episode, with former University of Chicago Law School Dean and University of Chicago Provos Geoffrey Stone, is part 1 of our Supreme Court Debrief. We discuss two cases this episode — Harris Funeral Home vs EEOC, which involved whether employers could fire transgender employees for how they sexually identify, and June Medical, which looked at whether a Louisiana law that required doctors who perform an abortion in a clinic to have admitting privileges in a nearby hospital was unconstitutional — along with Professor Stone's latest book, "Democracy and Equality: The Enduring Constitutional Vision of the Warren Court."

Professor Geoffrey R. Stone is the Edward H. Levi Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago. Professor Stone joined the faculty in 1973, after serving as a law clerk to Supreme Court Justice William J. Brennan, Jr. Professor Stone was appointed by President Obama to serve on the President’s Review Group on Intelligence and Communications Technologies, which evaluated the government’s foreign intelligence surveillance programs in the wake of Edward Snowden’s leaks. He has also written amicus briefs for constitutional scholars in a number of Supreme Court cases, including Obergefell v. Hodges, the marriage equality case, and Whole Woman’s Health v. Hellerstadt, the abortion case involving admitting privileges for doctors in Texas.

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