Heidi Schreck
speaker
91 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 30 Jun
Heidi Schreck’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
Trend
recordings per month · last 12 monthsRecordings per month over the last 12 months — 1 in all, peaking in Jun 2026 with 1.
Appearances
The word itself means the space between like the full light and the darkness, right?
Or it's actually between the full light and the kind of shadow.
So it's this kind of half light, half dark, very shadowy, murky place.
Griswold v. Connecticut, which is the case that made birth control legal for all people in this country in 1965, pretty late.
The Due Process Clause of the 14th Amendment and The most magical and mysterious amendment of them all, Amendment 9.
Amendment 9 says, The enumeration in the Constitution of certain rights shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.
basically that talks about unenumerated rights.
It says just because a right isn't listed in the Constitution, it doesn't mean you don't have that right.
The fact is, there was no way for the Framers to put down every single right we have.
I mean, the right to brush your teeth.
Yes, you've got it.
But how long do we want this document to be?
Think about it for a moment.
Our Constitution doesn't tell you all the rights that you have because it doesn't know.
And I love that amendment because it does speak to the, like, living, breathing nature of the document.
And also, it's just a very weird, mysterious thing.
Like, everything else is rather concrete, and it's very confusing, this amendment.
Justice William O. Douglas, the great Supreme Court justice, when he talked about Amendment 9, he used the word penumbra.
I read about how that case was partially decided with the help of the Ninth Amendment, as was Roe v. Wade, with this idea that, like, okay, we don't know, given the tools we have with this Constitution, we don't know how to say exactly that, like, a person is entitled to use birth control or a person is entitled to have an abortion.
So we're going to locate it in this right to privacy, which is not enumerated in the Constitution exactly, but we're going to say it's, like,
Showing 61–80 of 91 · page 4 of 5
← Previous
Next →