Miranda Warnings Roundtable: 2022 Decisions & the Future of the Supreme Court

New York State Bar Association General Counsel David Miranda hosts a lively roundtable with political strategist Liz Benjamin and constitutional law professor Vin Bonventre. They discuss the swing to the right of the US Supreme Court through its rulings handed down in the Spring of 2022.

Rulings on reproductive rights, gun rights and religious rights were just three of several issued the court decided this term. Liz Benjamin says no one should be surprised that the court moved to the political right.

“They have been chomping at the bit for years to do this. This is exactly what conservatives, I will say in their brilliance, have always played the long game. The conservatives have been playing chess while the democrats or liberals play checkers.”

Professor Bonventre says a Justices may change over time and it’s a move we have seen before.  “The same thing that happened to Sandra Day O’Conner and Anthony Kennedy has already happened with the Chief Justice pushing him over to the left. I think the same thing’s going to happen to Kavanaugh, maybe also to Amy Coney Barrett.”Join us for this lively discussion each month on Miranda Warnings: Roundtable.