Michael Ramos: Supreme Court Integrity and the Midterm Elections

Policy Chats

In this episode, Former District Attorney of San Bernardino County Michael Ramos talks with students from the UC Riverside School of Public Policy about the Supreme Court going into the upcoming elections.

About Michael Ramos:

Michael A. Ramos was elected as San Bernardino County’s District Attorney in 2003 and served in the position until 2019. He currently serves as one of the External Relations Directors for the Robert Presley Center of Crime and Justice Studies at the UCR School of Public Policy.

Learn more about Michael Ramos via https://presleycenter.ucr.edu/about/people#external_relations_directors

Podcast Highlights:

“It will be interesting to me to see if that same energy after the decision on Roe v. Wade comes out in the ballot box. If it does, then that tells you that the decision by the United States Supreme Court lit a fire under the public.”

- Michael Ramos on the topic of Roe v. Wade and the response by the American public.

“My concern, and I think the public's concern, is judicial activism-the judges crossing the line to the political world, the legislative world.”

- Michael Ramos on the topic of justices potentially crossing the line and involving politics in their decisions.

“You may think your vote doesn't count, but it does. Every vote from a local school board race to the United States president is key to our society continuing to be what we are in the world.”

- Michael Ramos on the importance of voting.

Guest:

Michael Ramos (External Relations Director for the Center of Crime and Justice Studies)

Interviewers:

Kevin Karami (UCR Public Policy Major, Dean’s Chief Ambassador)

Jeanine Nassar (Associate Students of UCR Vice President of Internal Affairs)

Music by:

C Codaine

https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Xylo-Ziko/Minimal_1625

https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Xylo-Ziko/Phase

Commercial Links:

https://spp.ucr.edu/mpp

This is a production of the UCR School of Public Policy: https://spp.ucr.edu/

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