Amarica's Constitution
Professor Akhil Reed Amar, Sterling Professor of Law and Political Science at Yale University and one of the nation's leading authorities on the Constitution, offers weekly in-depth discussions on the most urgent and fascinating constitutional issues of our day. He is joined by co-host Andy Lipka and guests drawn from other top experts including Bob Woodward, Nina Totenberg, Neal Katyal, Lawrence Lessig, Michael Gerhardt, and many more.
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President Trump likes being president. He doesn’t like the 22nd amendment so much, and has spoken, with increasing seriousness, of his conviction that he could remain president beyond the end of his second term. Various pundits have weighed in, some dismissively, others with grave declarations that Trump can accompli
We’re a bit late this week, because following our recent conversation with Justice Breyer, we had the opportunity to speak at length with Judge William Pryor, Chief Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit, former Alabama Attorney General, and an important member of the Judicial Conference the “
President Trump has been firing various Federal officials, many of whom serve pursuant to statutes that claim to provide protection against firing without cause. One of the most prominent, Hampton Dellinger, who served as Special Counsel of the United States, took the President to Court, winning at the Federal Distric
Our recent episodes on constitutional questions such as the unitary executive have looked at founding history, but less so the cases of the founding period. In this episode we take a look at one of the most famous cases of all, Marbury v. Madison. But this isn’t primarily a look at judicial review, but instead Marbur
President Trump continues to wield the ax in a manner consistent with Unitary Executive theory. The question is, is it also consistent with the Constitution, and with the various statutes on the books that are at odds with that theory? Professor Calabresi returns for more discussion of this crucial question; in this
We are joined by Professor Steven Calabresi, the co-founder and co-president of the Federalist Society, for three big topics. First, he offers insights for this fraught moment in our history with a new book on a key figure from an earlier era. Second, he finds himself on the other side from our current president on a
