Episode Details

We’re all too familiar with the phrases by now: “constitutional crisis,” “slide toward authoritarianism” and “erosion of the rule of law.”

Today, Due South delves into what those words really mean — and what’s at stake for our nation — with two local legal experts.

Our conversation begins with the Honorable Allyson K. Duncan. When Judge Duncan was a child growing up in Durham, she spent afternoons after school at North Carolina Central University's law library, where her mother worked.

While Duncan watched future lawyers study, a seed was planted that grew into a career of firsts, including being the first African American woman to serve on the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit.

Now retired from the federal bench, she talks with co-host Jeff Tiberii about challenges she sees today to the separation of powers and the rule of law.

Then, a conversation with constitutional law professor Marcus Gadson about his book, ‘Sedition: How America’s Constitutional Order Emerged From Violent Crisis’, and what constitutes a constitutional crisis.

Guests

Allyson K. Duncan, retired federal judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit; member, Keep Our Republic’s Article III Coalition

Marcus Gadson, Associate Professor of Law, Associate Professor of Law, University of North Carolina Law School