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Constitutional Crisis Hotline
by Jed Shugerman, Julie Suk
The podcast about threats to constitutional democracy at home and abroad. We cover breaking news about democracies breaking.
Episodes
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Supreme Court Roundup
Fordham Law professors Tracy Higgins, Abner Greene, and Ethan Leib join Julie Suk on the Constitutional Crisis Hotline to analyze the major cases of the Supreme Court Term that just ended, and then debate about the public criticisms of the Court’s legitimacy. In the last few weeks, the Supreme...
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Indicting Trump
Corey Brettschneider is a visiting professor at Fordham Law School, where he has taught constitutional law courses for several years. He is also a Professor of Political Science at Brown University. He is the author of several books on constitutional law and political theory, and editor of the...
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After Misogyny: Can constitutional democracies get past male overempowerment?
Constitutional Crisis Hotline co-host Julie Suk argues in a new book that misogyny is the overempowerment of men and the collective overentitlement of society to women’s forbearance, pain, and sacrifices for the common good. Misogyny not woman-hatred alone; it is the legal structure that enables...
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Re-Constructing Basic Liberties
What is the future of constitutional rights protections and equal citizenship in our constitutional democracy? Is substantive due process over after Dobbs, or can we reconstruct it? We talk with Jim Fleming (Boston University School of Law, JD/PhD) about his recent book, “Constructing Basic...
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Stayin' Alive: The 1970s Equal Rights Amendment Returns to Congress
Is the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) dead or alive? The Senate Judiciary Committee held a hearing at the end of February to consider a resolution that would recognize some state ratifications of the ERA that were completed decades after Congress’s deadline. Originally proposed in 1923 and adopted…
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Emergency Episode: The Biden Student Debt Oral Arguments and Emergency Powers
A breaking-news emergencies podcast right after the oral arguments in the Biden Student Debt cases: Nebraska v. Biden and Dept of Education vs. Brown, joined by: Liza Goitein, senior director of the Brennan Center for Justice’s Liberty & National Security Program, and a nationally expert on...
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Presidents' Day, the National Security Constitution, and the Russian Invasion Anniversary
This Presidents’ Day episode on presidential power over war and foreign policy coincides with the one-year anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Feb. 24th. A veteran of four administrations' foreign policy teams, Yale Law professor Harold Koh, and Fordham Law colleagues Martin Flaherty and...
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Covert Juries and Overt Acts: An Update on the Trump Criminal Investigations
Trump’s interference in the 2020 Election and the January 6 insurrection were big reasons we started this podcast. In this episode, we get some updates on those investigations and ask some questions about some of the progress and the legal and political problems ahead. Helping us understand the...
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The 50th Anniversary of Roe v. Wade
Roe was much more than a Supreme Court decision. It was an event that changed the course of women's lives around the world. How do we commemorate it, especially after the Supreme Court overruled the decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health last year? Linda Greenhouse is the Pulitzer-Prize...
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Ghosts of Elections Past, Present, and Future
Ghosts of Elections Past, Present, and Future We talked to Rick Pildes (NYU Law) a few days after the Moore v. Harper oral argument, the “independent state legislature” case that instilled many worries about the Court opening a door to state legislatures overriding the popular vote. While those...
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Abolition Constitutionalism
Dorothy Roberts is George A. Weiss University Professor of Law & Sociology; Raymond Pace & Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander Professor of Civil Rights; and Professor of Africana Studies Director, Program on Race, Science and Society. She is an acclaimed scholar of race, gender and the law. Her...
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Our Unamendable Constitution
When a constitution reaches a crisis, should amendments be made to address it? That’s what happens in many constitutional democracies around the world, but the United States has not had a constitutional amendment for thirty years. Article V of the U.S. Constitution, requiring two thirds of both...
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Diversity in Crisis? The Affirmative Action Oral Arguments
Just hours after the oral arguments on Halloween (Mon, Oct. 31st) in Students for Fair Admissions v. the University of North Carolina and Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard, we asked five experts for their immediate reactions, analysis and predictions: Eleanor Brown (Penn St/Fordham Law,...
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A Constitutional Cautionary Tale: Why the New Constitution Failed in Chile
In 2020, Chilean voters demanded a new constitution to replace the one written in 1980 under the military dictatorship. But in 2022, Chilean voters rejected the new constitution drafted by political independents elected to a gender-balanced and indigenous-inclusive assembly. Why? What was in the...
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Women Lawyers to the Rescue: Dahlia Lithwick's Lady Justice
Dahlia Lithwick is the senior legal correspondent at Slate and host of Amicus, Slate’s award-winning biweekly podcast about the law. Her work has also appeared in The New York Times, Harper’s, The New Yorker, The Washington Post, The New Republic, and Commentary, among other places. Her new book...
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Constitutionalism: What can we say now?
On this first episode of Constitutional Crisis Hotline, we start off with the big question: should the U.S. Constitution be scrapped? Guest bios Sanford Levinson holds the W. St. John Garwood and W. St. John Garwood, Jr. Centennial Chair in Law at the University of Texas Law School. Levinson is…
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Introducing the Constitutional Crisis Hotline
Join Fordham Law School professors Jed Shugerman and Julie Suk as we navigate breaking news about democracies breaking. With threats to constitutional democracy at home and abroad surfacing almost daily, Jed and Julie will have real debates assessing them. Are we in a constitutional crisis yet?…
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
The podcast about threats to constitutional democracy at home and abroad. We cover breaking news about democracies breaking.
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Jed Shugerman, Julie Suk
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The podcast about threats to constitutional democracy at home and abroad. We cover breaking news about democracies breaking.
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