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Sharon McMahon

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
964 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Sharon McMahon (law and government teacher)

You actually don't have to be a lawyer. I could be on the Supreme Court. You could be on the Supreme Court.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Sharon McMahon (law and government teacher)

All three of us can be on the Supreme Court. There are literally no constitutional requirements to be on the court.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Sharon McMahon (law and government teacher)

All three of us can be on the Supreme Court. There are literally no constitutional requirements to be on the court.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Sharon McMahon (law and government teacher)

All three of us can be on the Supreme Court. There are literally no constitutional requirements to be on the court.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Sharon McMahon (law and government teacher)

The constitutional requirement is you have to be able to get approved by the Senate. That's it. And so if the Senate says you're good, then you're golden.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Sharon McMahon (law and government teacher)

The constitutional requirement is you have to be able to get approved by the Senate. That's it. And so if the Senate says you're good, then you're golden.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Sharon McMahon (law and government teacher)

The constitutional requirement is you have to be able to get approved by the Senate. That's it. And so if the Senate says you're good, then you're golden.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Sharon McMahon (law and government teacher)

It's too late for you.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Sharon McMahon (law and government teacher)

It's too late for you.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Sharon McMahon (law and government teacher)

It's too late for you.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Sharon McMahon (law and government teacher)

Anyway, Earl Warren gets on the Supreme Court. He gets appointed by Dwight Eisenhower. Dwight Eisenhower kind of later regretted appointing Earl Warren because Earl Warren went about changing some stuff. He had been in charge of the state of California during the time period that the United States was actively incarcerating Japanese Americans during World War II.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Sharon McMahon (law and government teacher)

Anyway, Earl Warren gets on the Supreme Court. He gets appointed by Dwight Eisenhower. Dwight Eisenhower kind of later regretted appointing Earl Warren because Earl Warren went about changing some stuff. He had been in charge of the state of California during the time period that the United States was actively incarcerating Japanese Americans during World War II.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Sharon McMahon (law and government teacher)

Anyway, Earl Warren gets on the Supreme Court. He gets appointed by Dwight Eisenhower. Dwight Eisenhower kind of later regretted appointing Earl Warren because Earl Warren went about changing some stuff. He had been in charge of the state of California during the time period that the United States was actively incarcerating Japanese Americans during World War II.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Sharon McMahon (law and government teacher)

where we rounded up more than 100,000 people of Japanese ancestry and moved them into incarceration camps away from the Pacific coast because of the attack on Pearl Harbor. And those people were, by and large, U.S. citizens who had been accused of absolutely no crime. Many of them were children. They received no due process whatsoever.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Sharon McMahon (law and government teacher)

where we rounded up more than 100,000 people of Japanese ancestry and moved them into incarceration camps away from the Pacific coast because of the attack on Pearl Harbor. And those people were, by and large, U.S. citizens who had been accused of absolutely no crime. Many of them were children. They received no due process whatsoever.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Sharon McMahon (law and government teacher)

where we rounded up more than 100,000 people of Japanese ancestry and moved them into incarceration camps away from the Pacific coast because of the attack on Pearl Harbor. And those people were, by and large, U.S. citizens who had been accused of absolutely no crime. Many of them were children. They received no due process whatsoever.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Sharon McMahon (law and government teacher)

And Earl Warren cooperated with the Department of Justice and cooperated with FDR in the removal orders to move Japanese Americans to these camps. Later, he wrote about in his autobiography how deeply he regretted those actions. And then he spent the rest of his life on the Supreme Court trying to make up for the fact that he had deprived hundreds of thousands of people of their due process. Oh.