Battle Supreme: Politics, the Law and an Open Seat on the Nation’s Highest Court
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Channel: Vanderbilt University · 2016 · Education
Vanderbilt Chancellor Nicholas S. Zeppos hosts a roundtable discussion exploring the U.S. Supreme Court’s current vacancy and the controversy surrounding the nomination of a new justice, as well as constitutional responsibility and presidential-year politics, on Monday, May 2, in the final installment of the Vanderbilt Chancellor’s Lecture Series for 2015-16. In addition to Zeppos, “Battle Supreme: Politics, the Law and an Open Seat on the Nation’s Highest Court” features Andrew Napolitano, Fox News senior judicial correspondent and author; Jeffrey Toobin, CNN senior legal analyst and New Yorker staff writer; Audrey Anderson, Vanderbilt University general counsel and former Department of Homeland Security deputy general counsel; and Jon Meacham, Vanderbilt Distinguished Visiting Professor and a Pulitzer Prize-winning author. Follow Vanderbilt on Twitter: https://twitter.com/vanderbiltu, on Instagram: http://instagram.com/vanderbiltu and on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/vanderbilt. See all Vanderbilt social media at http://social.vanderbilt.edu.