U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer (left) speaks with retired U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor (right) at the 2009 Aspen Ideas Festival in Aspen, Colorado. (Michael Brands, courtesy of the Aspen Ideas Festival)
The 2011 Ideas Festival, sponsored by the Aspen Institute and Atlantic Magazine, gathered scientists, artists, politicians, historians, educators, activists, and other great thinkers for a week in late June and early July. MPR's Midday broadcast several of the presentations.
Does the Supreme Court follow the will of the people?
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Does constitutional change come from grassroots activism, or do the courts set change in motion? Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer and former Justice Sandra Day O'Connor reflected on that question at this summer's Aspen Ideas Festival.
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