Behind the Brink (And Fighting Back) from a Broken Constitution

Skidmore College pundit Beau Breslin says that while we may not yet be in a Constitutional Crisis, the Constitution is clearly broken, and we are watching Supreme Court rulings dismantle many of the programs and institutions built up over the past 60 years.Beau Breslin is the Joseph C. Palamountain Chair in Government at Skidmore College. He has written three books, including the award-winning A Constitution for the Living: Imagining How Five Generations of Americans Would Rewrite the Nation’s Fundamental Law. He is a regular on WAMC's Roundtable and has appeared on C-SPAN, The Thomas Jefferson Hour, Listening to America, Consider the Constitution, and elsewhere. He holds a Ph.D. in political science from the University of Pennsylvania. From 2011-2018, he was Skidmore’s Dean of the Faculty.