The recent passing of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg – and the nomination of Judge Amy Coney Barrett to fill her seat – has sparked a political firestorm mere weeks before the U.S. presidential election. What should we expect from the upcoming confirmation hearings? How would a Justice Barrett shift the court’s ideological composition for generations to come? And what about the proposal to add more justices to the Supreme Court?

Join the IOP as we welcome Jan Crawford (JD’93), CBS News chief legal correspondent, for a conversation on the future of the Supreme Court. Crawford is a recognized authority on the Supreme Court whose 2007 book, "Supreme Conflict: The Inside Story of the Struggle for the Control of the United States Supreme Court", gained critical acclaim and became an instant New York Times Bestseller. She began covering the Court in 1994 for the Chicago Tribune, and has reported on most of the major judicial appointments and confirmation hearings of the past 15 years.

This conversation will be moderated by Aziz Z. Huq, the Frank and Bernice J. Greenberg Professor of Law at the UChicago Law School. Prof. Huq’s teaching focuses on constitutional law, criminal procedure, federal courts, and legislation. He clerked for Judge Robert D. Sack of the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and for Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg of the Supreme Court of the United States. He recently reflected on Justice Ginsburg’s legacy for the Washington Post here.