2022.12: No One Should Have Life Terms...Except Tenured Professors

Professor Chris Bonneau (Political Science), University of Pittsburgh

Episode Transcript

Selected publications by Professor Bonneau

• "Voters’ Verdicts: Citizens, Campaigns, and Institutions in State Supreme Court Elections," with Damon M. Cann (2015)

• "In Defense of Judicial Elections," with Melinda Gann Hall (2009)

• "Strategic Behavior and Policy Choice on the U.S. Supreme Court," with Thomas H. Hammond and Reginald S. Sheehan (2005)

• "Judicial Elections in the 21st Century," co-edited with Melissa Gann Hall (2016)

Inside-Out Program

• Pitt Prison Education Project

• Inside-Out Prison Exchange Program

First Step Act

• Bureau of Prisons overview

• Effect of Kim Kardashian West

Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson's US Supreme Court confirmation hearings

• Judge Jackson's opening statement

• Ted Cruz

• Cory Booker

Sexual harassment/assault allegations

• Clarence Thomas

• Joe Biden chaired Senate Judiciary Committee

• Professor Anita Hill - accusation of sexual harassment

• Judge Thomas' response

• Brett Kavanaugh

• Dr. Christine Blasey Ford - accusation of sexual assault

• Judge Kavanaugh's response

University governance

• University Senate (University of Pittsburgh)

• UIC Senate (University of Illinois at Chicago)