Across the Aisle - Special Guest Steven G. Calabresi
We are joined by Professor Steven Calabresi, the co-founder and co-president of the Federalist Society, for three big topics. First, he offers insights for this fraught moment in our history with a n...
26 Feb 20252h
Impounding Impoundment - Special Guest Josh Chafetz
A Federal District Court has temporarily halted an executive order from President Trump that purports to halt wide swaths of federal spending. This impoundment of funds duly appropriated by Congress ...
19 Feb 20251h 41min
Where Are The Lines?
Funds are impounded. Board members are summarily dismissed. Funds appropriated by Congress are impounded. Inspectors General are removed without notice or cause. And arguments are still being made ...
12 Feb 20251h 18min
Birthright Citizenship - Judges on Benches v Judges on Barstools
In the aftermath of a scathing ruling by the Federal District Court and its issuance of an order blocking President Trump’s executive order which attempted to abridge birthright citizenship, one might...
5 Feb 20251h 26min
Birthright and Birthwrong
The Trump Administration takes office, and the Constitution is immediately in the crosshairs. An executive order targeting birthright citizenship and the Fourteenth Amendment is issued on the first da...
29 Jan 20251h 46min
End of an ERA
The last days of the Biden administration have come and gone, and with them, some controversy in the form of a presidential statement on ERA ratification, and some more controversial pardons. Then ca...
22 Jan 20251h 28min
Looking Forward, Looking Back
As Inauguration Day approaches, anxiety and uncertainty, even dread, mixes with the optimism of some in the American polity. Many express a mix of apathy, weariness, or hopelessness, with a sentiment ...
15 Jan 20251h 27min
Unconventional
With rumblings around a possible Constitutional Convention around, we have noted some similarities with those issues that surrounded the recent ERA discussions. Now we dive deeper. Can a convention ...
8 Jan 20251h 28min
