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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...

The Trump administration’s attacks on Venezuelan boats defy even the broadest interpretation of the president's war powers. Hosted by Simple...

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...

The United States generally does not allow a standing army to be used against civilians. But Trump has been exploiting an exception to keep...

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...

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...

Falsely claiming there is a wave of violence perpetrated by migrants, Trump has threatened mass deportations under the broad and terrifying...

The United States has a strange way of electing presidents. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information ab...

Election deepfakes have the potential to change people's opinions about a presidential election in ways that can be harmful to democracy and...

As students go back to school, colleges and universities across the country are preparing for the continuation of protests against the Israe...

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...

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...

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...

After an unprecedented several weeks in politics, some on the right are advancing far-fetched arguments to challenge Vice President Kamala H...

The concept of presidential immunity is not explicitly stated anywhere in the Constitution. That hasn’t stopped the Supreme Court from essen...

In the aftermath of the Civil War, the Disqualification Clause was adopted to ensure that former officials and soldiers in the Confederacy w...

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...

On August 14, Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis announced that the grand jury had returned a criminal indictment against Trump and...

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 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...

New York's 3rd Congressional District elected a newcomer named George Santos in November of 2022. Since the election, it was revealed that S...

It’s been established law that it is wrong for businesses to discriminate against customers because of their race or ethnic background, but...

How the Dormant Commerce Clause tries to stop states from passing laws that put an undue burden on interstate commerce and what that means f...

When the FBI executed a search warrant on his home, Trump and his lawyers filed their complaints in a district where they thought they’d get...

The official court order that permitted the search of Mar-a-Lago was made public, and even though much of it was redacted, there is a lot of...

In the final week of the most recent term, the Supreme Court decided to limit one constitutional right (abortion) and expand another constit...

What have we learned from the January 6th Committee hearings and what does is mean for a potential Justice Department investigation of Trump...

The Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization decision has overturned Roe v. Wade and revoked the right to abortion, a Constitutionally g...

The recent mass shootings and a New York gun carrying permit case awaiting a decision from the Supreme Court calls for an examination of the...

The January 6th committee investigation uncovered unhinged texts from Ginni Thomas, wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, that impl...

On May 2, 2022 a draft majority opinion written by Justice Alito was leaked to the press. His draft opinion on Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Heal...

Trump's improper dealing with Ukraine was what led to his first impeachment. While most of us were focused on the domestic political implica...

A school district in Tennessee voted to ban the graphic novel Maus from their curriculum. Because of a case called Pico (1982) the school bo...

What two rulings about COVID vaccine mandates tell us about the future of the Administrative State under this configuration of the Supreme C...

Supreme Court cases from Mississippi and Texas are challenging long upheld precedents that established abortion rights. Reproductive rights,...

An update on SB 8, Executive Privilege of presidential records connected with January 6th, and a short digression into criminal law about th...

John Eastman, a mainstream conservative lawyer working for Trump, outlined a plan for VP Pence to declare Trump the winner of the 2020 elect...

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As people argue over public policy regarding the COVID vaccine, Jacobson V. Massachusetts is invoked a lot. Plus, Trump is in court and the...

This episode contains explicit language quoted from a cheerleader. Recorded on Monday 6/28, Professor Joh walks us through three recent deci...

On May 20, 2021, President Biden signed the COVID-19 Hate Crimes Act. This bill made special mention of hate crimes against Asian Americans....

What can a President do when it comes to reforming the approximately 18,000 locally governed police departments around the US? The infamous...

On January 6th, a mob stormed the US Capitol to try to stop the certification of the presidential election results. Many of the insurrection...

Following the January 6th riot on Capitol Hill, the major social media platforms banned former President Donald Trump, and many accounts rel...

On January 13th, former President Donald Trump became the first person ever to be impeached twice by the House of Representatives. But with...

How Trump is failing to overturn the election and how he might use his pardon power in his final days. This episode was recorded on December...

In late November, most states have certified the Presidential election for Joe Biden and his running mate, Kamala Harris. But Donald Trump c...

During the 2000 Presidential Election, it wasn’t immediately certain who had won the electoral college votes in Florida, throwing the entire...

On September 18th, Ruth Bader Ginsburg died at the age of 87. She was a trailblazing jurist who fought for the equality of women before the...

With only two months before the election, the Republican Party got a lot of attention - and scorn - for using the White House as a backdrop...

We review some of the big cases that were decided during the SCOTUS term and assess the constitutionality of the federal policing of the Por...