Attorney Amar's Opening Argument
In this shorter-than-usual episode, you are now a Supreme Court clerk getting ready for the Trump v. Barbara case. What do you do? What do you read? We guide you. And as we think about what will hap...
4 Mars 28min
Tariffs Are A Major Question - Special Guest Vikram Amar
The Court has ruled Trump’s so-called reciprocal tariffs unconstitutional. Vik Amar, who offered important theories that appeared prominently in the opinion, joins us to explain the Major Questions D...
27 Feb 1h 22min
Pillorying the Post
Jeff Bezos emasculated the Washington Post; now he has virtually killed it. Why? And what does this mean for the nation? What is the importance of major newspapers to the American constitutional sy...
18 Feb 1h 21min
Converse-1983 Is A Thing
It’s becoming apparent that the theory that Professor Amar put forth 40 years ago in a now-famous law review article, Of Sovereignty And Federalism, is being taken seriously by more and more legislatu...
12 Feb 1h 12min
A Virtuous Republic, If You Can Keep It
In a wide-ranging episode, we finish looking back - and in doing so, we look into the near future as well. The birthright citizenship case will be heard in oral argument on April 1, and we go back to...
4 Feb 1h 9min
Five-Oh and Four Questions
The look back over our five years of drama, humor, reason, and illogic continues, as perhaps the most notorious opinion of the five year period - the Trump immunity case - reappears in a clip, along w...
28 Jan 1h 23min
High Fives
It’s five years of Akhil and Andy on Amarica’s Constitution, and our friends are lining up to talk about it. In typical fashion, it’s not just testimonials but reflections. And we do a clip episode,...
21 Jan 1h 43min
The Minnesota Massacre
A powerful and aggressive central government sends unwanted forces in huge numbers to a city where the residents oppose and resent this policy. The undertrained forces unleash violence against the po...
14 Jan 54min
