The Justice Dialogues on Constitutional Values
It is not often that a sitting US President describes the Supreme Court of the United States as “not a normal court.” Words like “assault” and “attack,” which were not until long ago used primarily to define extra-judicial intrusions of individual states into the realm of civil rights, have now come to define actions taken by highest court of the land.
When did the Constitution—and the final interpreter of its word and spirit, the Supreme Court of the United States—transform from being a judicial and moral arbiter of our civic conflicts to itself becoming a partisan actor in our political strife?
On the occasion of Constitution Day in September 2023, The Justice Dialogues at Ahimsa Center hosted an event that examined the changing forms of our constitutional compact and its contemporary challenges, posed by new liberal democratic realities.
110 students and faculty attended the event.