Amarica's Constitution
By Akhil Reed Amar
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Professor Akhil Reed Amar, Sterling Professor of Law and Political Science at Yale University and one of the nation's leading authorities on the Constitution, offers weekly in-depth discussions on the most urgent and fascinating constitutional issues of our day. He is joined by co-host Andy Lipka and guests drawn from other top experts including Bob Woodward, Nina Totenberg, Neal Katyal, Lawrence Lessig, Michael Gerhardt, and many more.
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Humphrey's Execution
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Dec 10, 2025 |
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Balance and Check-Mate - Special Guest John Fabian Witt
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Dec 03, 2025 |
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The Only Only
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Nov 26, 2025 |
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The Undigested Matzo Ball
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Nov 19, 2025 |
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Incidental Trillions
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Nov 12, 2025 |
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Election Correction - Special Guest Vikram D. Amar
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Nov 05, 2025 |
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250 Episodes, 250 Years - and a surprise guest!
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Oct 29, 2025 |
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The Threads of Liberty - Special Guest Jeffrey Rosen
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Oct 22, 2025 |
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Opinions on Opinions
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Oct 15, 2025 |
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Dereliction of Duties
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Oct 08, 2025 |
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A Tale of Three Cities
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Oct 02, 2025 |
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Out in the World
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Sep 24, 2025 |
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Blast Off!
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Sep 17, 2025 |
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The Big Equal
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Sep 10, 2025 |
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The 64 Percent Question
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Sep 03, 2025 |
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The Land of The Land
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Aug 27, 2025 |
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The Good of the Country
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Aug 21, 2025 |
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We the Who? - Special Guest Jill Hasday
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Aug 13, 2025 |
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Skrmetti Skirmish
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Aug 06, 2025 |
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Geduldigging Your Grave at Oral Argument - Special Guest Vikram D. Amar
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Jul 30, 2025 |
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Fallon's Doctrine - Special Guest Michael Dorf
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Jul 23, 2025 |
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Firing Line, Then and Now - Special Guests US Rep. Jamie Raskin, and Author Sam Tanenhaus
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Jul 16, 2025 |
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Speaking the Law
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Jul 09, 2025 |
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Children, Indoctrination, and Ideas
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Jul 02, 2025 |
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Imbalance of Power
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Jun 26, 2025 |
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A Judicious Life, Part Two - Special Guests Justice Stephen Breyer, Professors Nadine Strossen and Kermit Roosevelt
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Jun 19, 2025 |
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Count to Ten
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Jun 11, 2025 |
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Competence, Character - or Cannon
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Jun 04, 2025 |
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Possibly Preparing Humphrey's Execution
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May 28, 2025 |
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The Merits of The Merits
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May 21, 2025 |
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A Judicious Life, Part One - Special Guests Dean Heather Gerken and Judge Kevin Newsom
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May 15, 2025 |
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No School For You - Special Guest Vikram D. Amar
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Apr 23, 2025 |
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Equality, Emergencies, Exception, and Easter
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Apr 16, 2025 |
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Project 2026
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Apr 09, 2025 |
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Third Time, No Charm
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Apr 02, 2025 |
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Wisdom From Breyer To Pryor - Special Guest Judge William Pryor
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Mar 27, 2025 |
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The Shelter From The Storm - Special Guest Hampton Dellinger
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Mar 19, 2025 |
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Marbury then, Mayhem now
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Mar 12, 2025 |
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Sinking the Unitary Executive - Special Guest Steven G. Calabresi
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Mar 05, 2025 |
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Across the Aisle - Special Guest Steven G. Calabresi
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Feb 26, 2025 |
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Impounding Impoundment - Special Guest Josh Chafetz
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Feb 19, 2025 |
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Where Are The Lines?
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Feb 12, 2025 |
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Birthright Citizenship - Judges on Benches v Judges on Barstools
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Feb 05, 2025 |
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Birthright and Birthwrong
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Jan 29, 2025 |
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End of an ERA
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Jan 22, 2025 |
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Looking Forward, Looking Back
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Jan 15, 2025 |
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Unconventional
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Jan 08, 2025 |
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Justice on the Spot - Special Guest Justice Stephen Breyer
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Jan 01, 2025 |
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Changing Your Mind, or Changing The Rules
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Dec 25, 2024 |
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Unpardonable
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Dec 18, 2024 |
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Recess Games - Special Guests Josh Chafetz and Thomas Schmidt
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Dec 11, 2024 |
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The Obsequious Instruments of His Pleasure
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Dec 04, 2024 |
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Does Section Three Live?
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Nov 27, 2024 |
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The Gaetz of Hell
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Nov 20, 2024 |
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Preview of Peril - Special Live Podcast
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Nov 13, 2024 |
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All This Fuss About the Presidential Election - Special Guests Gordon Wood, Steven Smith, Paul Grimstad
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Nov 05, 2024 |
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The Sound of Silence - Special Guest Ruth Marcus
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Oct 30, 2024 |
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Constitution Things
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Oct 23, 2024 |
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How to Fix - and How Not to Fix - the Immunity Opinion
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Oct 16, 2024 |
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Ex-Presidents: The Ex-cellent and the Ex-ecrable
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Oct 09, 2024 |
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The Return of the Enemies List
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Oct 02, 2024 |
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The Blue Dot
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Sep 25, 2024 |
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The Devil You Know
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Sep 11, 2024 |
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Your Turn
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Sep 04, 2024 |
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The Kennedy Shame and Schumer's Folly - Special Guest Ruth Marcus
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Aug 28, 2024 |
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Circuit of Shame
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Aug 21, 2024 |
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Term Limits Made Workable
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Aug 14, 2024 |
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How To Get To 18 Years
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Aug 07, 2024 |
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Stepping Aside and Its Implications
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Jul 30, 2024 |
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Virtuous Presidents and A Loose Cannon - guest Vikram Amar
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Jul 23, 2024 |
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Resignation Realities and Bullets Dodged (Part 4)
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Jul 17, 2024 |
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Disgrace
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Jul 10, 2024 |
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Debate Debacle, and Agency Atrophy
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Jul 03, 2024 |
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The Court's Originalism About Face
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Jun 26, 2024 |
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Protests, Mifepristone, and Bump Stocks
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Jun 19, 2024 |
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Lear Jets, Books, and Virtue
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Jun 12, 2024 |
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The Jury Speaks
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Jun 05, 2024 |
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Big Mouth on Campus
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May 29, 2024 |
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Flags of Our Spouses
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May 22, 2024 |
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Trials, Pardons, and Elephants
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May 15, 2024 |
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Immunity versus The Rule of Law
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May 08, 2024 |
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Sense and Nonsense on Immunity
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May 01, 2024 |
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Don't Touch but Do Convict
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Apr 24, 2024 |
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Crime Means Punishment
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Apr 17, 2024 |
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Immunity Therapy
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Apr 10, 2024 |
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No Standing Any Time
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Apr 03, 2024 |
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History Will Judge
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Mar 27, 2024 |
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Dissenting in Concurrence
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Mar 20, 2024 |
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What the Concurrences Should Have Said
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Mar 13, 2024 |
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Happy Anniversary Mr. Lincoln from the Court
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Mar 06, 2024 |
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Staking our Claim
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Feb 28, 2024 |
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What the Oral Argument Should Have Said - Part 2
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Feb 15, 2024 |
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What the Oral Argument Should Have Said
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Feb 11, 2024 |
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20 Questions on Section 3 and Insurrection #1 - Special Guest Ted Widmer
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Feb 07, 2024 |
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A Self-Educating Gaffe
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Jan 31, 2024 |
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The Amicus Brief - Part Two
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Jan 24, 2024 |
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Friends of the Court - The Brief
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Jan 20, 2024 |
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Section Three Goes to Washington
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Jan 10, 2024 |
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Section Three Punditry: The Good, The Bad, and The Silly
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Jan 03, 2024 |
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The World Turns to Section Three
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Dec 27, 2023 |
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Juries, Jarkesy, and a Joke
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Dec 20, 2023 |
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2 Experts, 3 Courts, Section 3, Part 3 - Special Guests William Baude and Michael Stokes Paulsen
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Dec 12, 2023 |
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Sandra the First
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Dec 06, 2023 |
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Sense and Nonsensibility on Section 3 - Special Guests Mark Graber and Gerard Magliocca
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Nov 29, 2023 |
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Guns, Clips, and Rahimi
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Nov 22, 2023 |
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Moore on the Brief - Special Guest Vikram David Amar
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Nov 15, 2023 |
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Moore, in Brief
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Nov 08, 2023 |
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Aisles, not Walls
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Nov 01, 2023 |
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Speakerless
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Oct 25, 2023 |
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A Tale of Two Jordans
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Oct 18, 2023 |
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Allen and Affirmative Action, Again
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Oct 11, 2023 |
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Eleven Presidents - Special Guest Bob Woodward
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Oct 04, 2023 |
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Have Kavanaugh, Will Travel
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Sep 27, 2023 |
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Justice Jackson’s Santa Clause
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Sep 20, 2023 |
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An Officer and a President
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Sep 13, 2023 |
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The Two Experts, Part Two - Special Guests William Baude and Michael Stokes Paulsen
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Sep 06, 2023 |
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The Two Experts on Section Three - Special Guests William Baude and Michael Stokes Paulsen
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Aug 30, 2023 |
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Georgia On Our Minds - Special Guest Ruth Marcus
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Aug 23, 2023 |
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This Must Be The Place
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Aug 16, 2023 |
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Third Time’s A Charm
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Aug 09, 2023 |
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The Legacy of the Harvard Case - Special Guest Jeffrey Brenzel
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Aug 02, 2023 |
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Amara Culpa, Amara Bene
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Jul 26, 2023 |
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Scrutinizing Affirmative Action - Special Guest Jeffrey Brenzel
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Jul 20, 2023 |
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The Rights of Bigots
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Jul 12, 2023 |
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No Moore ISL
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Jul 05, 2023 |
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Four Clauses, Two Juries
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Jun 28, 2023 |
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Whose Welfare?
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Jun 21, 2023 |
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The Judgment of History
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Jun 14, 2023 |
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I Am Calabresi
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Jun 07, 2023 |
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Crossfire on the Ceiling - Special Guests Jack Balkin and Saikrishna Prakash
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May 31, 2023 |
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Duct Tape on a Warhol - Special Guest James Boyle
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May 24, 2023 |
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Judging for Yourself - Special Guest Kathleen Clark
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May 17, 2023 |
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Coronation Considerations
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May 10, 2023 |
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More or Less Moore
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May 03, 2023 |
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Standing Rules
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Apr 26, 2023 |
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Judges and Adverse Events
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Apr 19, 2023 |
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Doubting Thomas, and doubting the doubters
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Apr 12, 2023 |
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Discretion and Indictment
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Apr 05, 2023 |
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Much to Bragg About?
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Mar 29, 2023 |
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It’s Coming
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Mar 22, 2023 |
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The Lord Mayor Adams
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Mar 15, 2023 |
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Sing a Song (of) Mike Pence
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Mar 08, 2023 |
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Torture, Time Travel, and Transformation
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Mar 01, 2023 |
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Secrets, Boards, and Moots - Oh My!
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Feb 22, 2023 |
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Treason, Reason, History, and OurStory - Special Guest Kermit Roosevelt III
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Feb 15, 2023 |
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Trillion Dollar Tricks - Special Guest Jack Balkin
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Feb 08, 2023 |
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Declaration, or Gettysburg? - Special Guest Kermit Roosevelt III
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Feb 01, 2023 |
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Wait - Don’t Tell Me!
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Jan 25, 2023 |
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The Idaho Murder Case in Constitutional Perspective
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Jan 18, 2023 |
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Speaker-ish
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Jan 06, 2023 |
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January 6th, Santos, and The Speaker
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Jan 04, 2023 |
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Strictly Scrutinizing Moore - Special Guest Kate Shaw
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Dec 28, 2022 |
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More on Moore - The Oral Argument, Continued
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Dec 21, 2022 |
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Mr. Amar Goes to Washington - the Moore v. Harper Oral Argument
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Dec 14, 2022 |
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Out-Ranked: Live Podcast with Yale Law School’s FedSoc Chapter
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Dec 07, 2022 |
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Ban the Box?
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Nov 30, 2022 |
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100 Podcasts for Us, 40 Years for FedSoc - Special Guest Steven G. Calabresi
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Nov 23, 2022 |
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Double Negative Action
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Nov 16, 2022 |
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The Federalist Society, in Brief - Special Guest Steven Calabresi
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Nov 09, 2022 |
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The News in Brief
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Nov 02, 2022 |
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The Brief in Brief
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Oct 26, 2022 |
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Sweet Hugo in Alabama - A Special Live Podcast
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Oct 19, 2022 |
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Zelig On The Court - Special Guest Brad Snyder
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Oct 12, 2022 |
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Zelig of the Court - Special Guest Brad Snyder
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Oct 05, 2022 |
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The Court’s Other Amy
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Sep 28, 2022 |
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Loving Lincoln, and Castigating Kastigar
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Sep 21, 2022 |
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Masters, Monarchs, and Mangling the Fifth
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Sep 14, 2022 |
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Trump Says His Name
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Sep 07, 2022 |
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Trump Takes the Fifth
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Aug 31, 2022 |
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Afraid to Ask: Hamilton and a Wealth Tax
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Aug 24, 2022 |
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Search-A-Lago
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Aug 17, 2022 |
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Originalism on Trial
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Aug 10, 2022 |
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Time is Now
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Aug 03, 2022 |
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Tackling Kennedy
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Jul 27, 2022 |
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Separate or Equal
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Jul 20, 2022 |
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The Long and The Short of Bruen
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Jul 13, 2022 |
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Unprecedented
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Jul 07, 2022 |
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Special Episode - Prediction and Prescription
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Jul 04, 2022 |
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The Real Steal, Part 3 - Special Guest Vikram D. Amar
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Jun 29, 2022 |
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The Real Steal, Part 2 - Special Guest Vikram D. Amar
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Jun 22, 2022 |
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The Real Steal - Part One
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Jun 15, 2022 |
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Guns, Legislation, Uvalde, and Bruen - special guest Adam Winkler
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Jun 08, 2022 |
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After Uvalde - What?
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Jun 01, 2022 |
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Is There a Dobbs Deal?
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May 25, 2022 |
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After Dobbs
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May 18, 2022 |
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The Memes of Dobbs’ Leak
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May 11, 2022 |
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Woe is Roe
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May 04, 2022 |
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Citizenship and Citations
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Apr 27, 2022 |
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Is Jackson Commissioned?
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Apr 20, 2022 |
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Rights and ”Justice”
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Apr 13, 2022 |
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Graham Crock-er
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Apr 06, 2022 |
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The Hearings According To Durbin - Special Guest Vikram D. Amar
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Apr 02, 2022 |
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Confirmation Correction - Special Guest Vikram D. Amar
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Mar 23, 2022 |
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Lawyer of the Century
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Mar 16, 2022 |
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The Music of the Law
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Mar 09, 2022 |
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Dellinger Departs, Jackson Arrives
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Mar 02, 2022 |
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Your Turn; Our Take
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Feb 23, 2022 |
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Now Now Now - Guest Jesse Wegman (Part 2)
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Feb 16, 2022 |
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A New ERA - Special Guest Jesse Wegman
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Feb 09, 2022 |
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Gary and Gorby - Special Guest Gary Hart
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Feb 02, 2022 |
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Debate Debate
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Jan 26, 2022 |
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Heart to Hart: Filibuster Finis - Special Guest Gary Hart
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Jan 19, 2022 |
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The Year and The Questions, Part 2
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Jan 12, 2022 |
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80 Years in 80 Minutes - A Special Live Episode
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Jan 06, 2022 |
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The Year That Was, and Your Questions
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Dec 29, 2021 |
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Roberts Court, or Trump Court? A Conversation with Linda Greenhouse
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Dec 22, 2021 |
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The Court Astonishes - Special Guest Ed Whelan
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Dec 15, 2021 |
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Roe Roe Roe: Stare and Stenchy
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Dec 08, 2021 |
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The Future of the Past
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Dec 01, 2021 |
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About Abortion - A Precedent Primer
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Nov 24, 2021 |
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To Heller and Back
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Nov 17, 2021 |
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Putting a Head to Our Gun
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Nov 10, 2021 |
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The Opening Episode
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Nov 03, 2021 |
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72 Term Papers
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Oct 27, 2021 |
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Errors of Commission
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Oct 20, 2021 |
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Speaking of the First Amendment - Joint Episode with FIRE
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Oct 12, 2021 |
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Adams or the Dog - Special Guest Edward Larson
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Oct 05, 2021 |
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Basically Random
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Sep 29, 2021 |
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Empire of History - Special Guest Gordon S. Wood
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Sep 22, 2021 |
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Literary Labyrinth
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Sep 15, 2021 |
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The Ayes and Nays Upon Texas
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Sep 08, 2021 |
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A Friendly Judge
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Sep 01, 2021 |
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Sabermetrics for Lawyers
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Aug 25, 2021 |
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Confirmation Cacophony
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Aug 18, 2021 |
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Neal Katyal's Life in the Law, Part 2 (Special Guest)
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Aug 13, 2021 |
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Neal Katyal's Life in the Law, Part I
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Aug 03, 2021 |
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Witness in the Center Square
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Jul 28, 2021 |
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Tall Tales
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Jul 21, 2021 |
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Architects May Come
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Jul 14, 2021 |
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Political Football
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Jul 07, 2021 |
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Know the Nine You Will
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Jun 30, 2021 |
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Yale's Constitution - Special Episode - Guest Nicholas Christakis
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Jun 28, 2021 |
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They Are Small Colleges
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Jun 23, 2021 |
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Princeton Palaver Present
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Jun 16, 2021 |
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Princeton Palaver Past
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Jun 09, 2021 |
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Harvard Hooey
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Jun 02, 2021 |
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Torture, Trump, and Tech - A Conversation with Alan Dershowitz
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May 26, 2021 |
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Constitutionalists United - Special Guest Floyd Abrams
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May 19, 2021 |
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Tinker to Amar to Strossen - Special Guest Nadine Strossen
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May 12, 2021 |
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Voracious Horatius
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May 06, 2021 |
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18 Arguments for 18 Years
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Apr 28, 2021 |
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Leaving The Field
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Apr 21, 2021 |
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Ending Catch-22
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Apr 14, 2021 |
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The Purpose of the Truth - Special Guest Bob Woodward
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Apr 07, 2021 |
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Advise and Impeach
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Mar 31, 2021 |
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Nullification Nullity
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Mar 24, 2021 |
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Jefferson Ben Amar
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Mar 17, 2021 |
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Sedition and Perdition
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Mar 10, 2021 |
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The Unanimous Man
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Mar 03, 2021 |
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Succession Inquisition
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Feb 24, 2021 |
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Snap - You're in Lisbon
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Feb 17, 2021 |
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Menus without Eating - Special Guest Prof. Philip Bobbitt
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Feb 12, 2021 |
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Ex-Pres Ex-perts
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Feb 11, 2021 |
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Bullets (Not) Dodged, Part 3: Shocked, Shocked!
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Feb 02, 2021 |
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Bullets Dodged, Part 2: The Faithless and the Feckless
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Jan 27, 2021 |
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Inauguration: Bullets Dodged
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Jan 17, 2021 |