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Aug 2023
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Justice Alito Sparks Another Controversy

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Constitutional law scholar David Super, a professor at Georgetown Law School, discusses the controversy around recent comments by Justice Samuel Alito that Congress can’t regulate the Supreme Court. June Grasso hosts.

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