Podcast Episodes

Kavanaugh Special Episode

Some of the Constitutional considerations of the Kavanaugh confirmation process. Recorded October 2, 2018.

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7 years, 11 months ago

Treason

When Trump tweets just the single word “Treason?”, probably in reference to the anonymous New York Times Op-Ed, is he using that word correctly? What…

7 years, 11 months ago

Roe

Trump has a second Supreme Court pick and that has a lot of people wondering about the future of Roe v. Wade. Here we look at the constitutional basi…

8 years ago

Justice Kennedy

Justice Kennedy decided to retire at the end of this Supreme Court term. Kennedy has been the swing vote on a lot of important cases. He’s mostly con…

8 years, 2 months ago

Taking the Fifth

Trump has said the taking the fifth makes "you look guilty as hell" but lot of Trump's associates are now taking the fifth in the Russia investigatio…

8 years, 2 months ago

President Twitter and the First Amendment

Can Trump block people on Twitter? It turns out, the First Amendment has something to say about that.

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8 years, 3 months ago

Posse Comitatus

The Posse Comitatus Act limits the federal government’s ability to use the military to enforce domestic policy within the United States. However, thi…

8 years, 3 months ago

Attorney Client Privilege

When the office of Trump’s personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, was raided by the FBI, Trump took twitter to express his concern. He wrote “Attorney-clien…

8 years, 4 months ago

Deadly Force

The Fourth Amendment includes the right to be secure from “unreasonable searches and seizure.” We have some idea of how this applies to cops, but if …

8 years, 5 months ago

The Poisonous Tree

The Russia investigation has been called a "witch hunt" by Trump and his supporters on Twitter. And they've invoked the legal concept "the fruit of t…

8 years, 6 months ago