What Is a War?
The Trump administration’s attacks on Venezuelan boats defy even the broadest interpretation of the president's war powers. Hosted by Simple...
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What Trump Can Teach Us About Con Law
Professor Elizabeth Joh teaches Intro to Constitutional Law and most of the time this is a pretty straight forward job. But with Trump in office, everything has changed. Five minutes before...
Episodes
20 of 93 episodesSmoot, Hawley, and Trump
A Senate fight over Lady Chatterley’s Lover paved the way for Trump’s sweeping tariffs. Now the Supreme Court will decide if presidents can...
Bad Faith President
The United States generally does not allow a standing army to be used against civilians. But Trump has been exploiting an exception to keep...
The Return of Con Law
We heard you. The chorus of voices asking “where is Con Law ? Where is Professor Elizabeth Joh to guide us through this madness? We need it...
Election Lawsuits
No matter what happens on Election Day, Trump and his allies have already put legal challenges in motion. Here’s what a nerdy agency, hangin...
Enemy Aliens
Falsely claiming there is a wave of violence perpetrated by migrants, Trump has threatened mass deportations under the broad and terrifying...
Faithless Electors and Wrong Winners
The United States has a strange way of electing presidents. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information ab...
Deepfakes and Lying Liars
Election deepfakes have the potential to change people's opinions about a presidential election in ways that can be harmful to democracy and...
Whose Speech, Whose Campus
As students go back to school, colleges and universities across the country are preparing for the continuation of protests against the Israe...
Fishy Deep State
What’s the connection between former President Donald Trump's attacks on the so-called “Deep State" and a tiny silvery fish? The Supreme Cou...
Preview: Not Built For This
We’ve got a preview of a new miniseries for you called Not Built for This , created and hosted by Emmett FitzGerald. It’s a show about clima...
Cruel and Unusual
In 1960, a man named Lawrence Robinson was sentenced to 90 days in jail for violating a California law that made it illegal to be addicted t...
Farfetched Arguments
After an unprecedented several weeks in politics, some on the right are advancing far-fetched arguments to challenge Vice President Kamala H...
Law-Free Zone
The concept of presidential immunity is not explicitly stated anywhere in the Constitution. That hasn’t stopped the Supreme Court from essen...
The Disqualification Clause
In the aftermath of the Civil War, the Disqualification Clause was adopted to ensure that former officials and soldiers in the Confederacy w...
Gag
Gag orders are usually put in place to protect a defendant's right to a fair trial by limiting inflammatory statements. What happens when it...
Margarine, Meadows, and Removal
On August 14, Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis announced that the grand jury had returned a criminal indictment against Trump and...
Comstock Zombies
19th century "zombie" laws are shambling into the abortion debate. The Comstock Act of 1873 made it illegal to send “obscene, lewd or lasciv...
On the Eve of Trump's Arraignment
On April 4th (that’s tomorrow as I record this) former President Trump is expected to be arraigned in a Manhattan court room. He was indicte...
Lies, George Santos, and the 1st Amendment
New York's 3rd Congressional District elected a newcomer named George Santos in November of 2022. Since the election, it was revealed that S...