Hazards Ahead: How Will the New Supreme Court Change America?
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with Jeffrey Toobin, Jennifer Rubin, and Kimberly Atkins Stohr
Wednesday, August 24, 2022 5:00-6:00 PM EST
We are thrilled to host Supreme Court expert Jeffrey Toobin of CNN and Washington Post political columnist, Jennifer Rubin, with our moderator, attorney and reporter, Kimberly Atkins Stohr. Recent Supreme Court decisions have upended the legal, political, and cultural landscape - and more dramatic change is certainly ahead. Join our TCG panel as they discuss the vast potential impact of this new court on privacy, personal freedoms, government regulation, reproductive rights, the environment, gun control, access to voting, and other charged issues.
Jennifer Rubin is a lawyer, political commentator and columnist for the Washington Post, Rubin is the author of “Resistance: How Women Saved Democracy from Donald Trump.” Rubin was long known as a conservative political commentator but switched in recent years and become an advocate for moderate Democrats. Her blog at the post, “The Right Turn,” has been called a “must read” for political watchers. Most recently she has been a critic of the Supreme Court on her blog, specifically regarding the partisanship of the Supreme Court.
Jeffrey Toobin is the chief legal analyst for CNN and has also worked at the New Yorker from 1993 to 2020. Toobin’s expertise on the Supreme Court stems from having reported and written about it extensively, including writing two books about the Court, “The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court,” and “The Oath: The Obama White House and the Supreme Court.” Before becoming a journalist, Toobin served as an Assistant U.S. Attorney in Brooklyn, and as an associate counsel in the Office of Independent Counsel Lawrence E. Walsh.
Kimberly Atkins Stohr is a Lawyer and senior opinion writer at The Boston Globe. Stohr is also an MSNBC contributor. She has served as the Boston Herald’s Washington bureau chief, guest host of CSPAN’s morning call-in show “Washington Journal,” and a Supreme Court reporter for Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly and it’s sister publications. Previously, Stohr was the first Washington, DC-based news correspondent for WBUR. Before launching her journalism career, she was a trial and appellate litigation attorney in Boston.
