Amarica's Constitution cover art

All Episodes

Amarica's Constitution — 278 episodes

#
Title
1

JFK's Wall

2

Fourteen Colonies, Ten Commandments

3

Remember the Alamo Heights

4

Popes and Presidents

5

Last Branch Stands, The Barbara Court Sits - Special Guest Sarah Isgur

6

New World, Same Constitution

7

Crib Sheets for Barbara

8

Created to Born to Barbara

9

A Brief Ecosystem

10

Substantive Expansion - with Advisory Opinions and Divided Argument

11

Attorney Amar's Opening Argument

12

Tariffs Are A Major Question - Special Guest Vikram Amar

13

Pillorying the Post

14

Converse-1983 Is A Thing

15

A Virtuous Republic, If You Can Keep It

16

Five-Oh and Four Questions

17

High Fives

18

The Minnesota Massacre

19

Venezuelan Frisbie

20

Your Questions, Easy and Hard

21

No Army At All

22

Courage is Contagious - Special Guest Congresswoman Maggie Goodlander

23

Humphrey's Execution

24

Balance and Check-Mate - Special Guest John Fabian Witt

25

The Only Only

26

The Undigested Matzo Ball

27

Incidental Trillions

28

Election Correction - Special Guest Vikram D. Amar

29

250 Episodes, 250 Years - and a surprise guest!

30

The Threads of Liberty - Special Guest Jeffrey Rosen

31

Opinions on Opinions

32

Dereliction of Duties

33

A Tale of Three Cities

34

Out in the World

35

Blast Off!

36

The Big Equal

37

The 64 Percent Question

38

The Land of The Land

39

The Good of the Country

40

We the Who? - Special Guest Jill Hasday

41

Skrmetti Skirmish

42

Geduldigging Your Grave at Oral Argument - Special Guest Vikram D. Amar

43

Fallon's Doctrine - Special Guest Michael Dorf

44

Firing Line, Then and Now - Special Guests US Rep. Jamie Raskin, and Author Sam Tanenhaus

45

Speaking the Law

46

Children, Indoctrination, and Ideas

47

Imbalance of Power

48

A Judicious Life, Part Two - Special Guests Justice Stephen Breyer, Professors Nadine Strossen and Kermit Roosevelt

49

Count to Ten

50

Competence, Character - or Cannon

51

Possibly Preparing Humphrey's Execution

52

The Merits of The Merits

53

A Judicious Life, Part One - Special Guests Dean Heather Gerken and Judge Kevin Newsom

54

No School For You - Special Guest Vikram D. Amar

55

Equality, Emergencies, Exception, and Easter

56

Project 2026

57

Third Time, No Charm

58

Wisdom From Breyer To Pryor - Special Guest Judge William Pryor

59

The Shelter From The Storm - Special Guest Hampton Dellinger

60

Marbury then, Mayhem now

61

Sinking the Unitary Executive - Special Guest Steven G. Calabresi

62

Across the Aisle - Special Guest Steven G. Calabresi

63

Impounding Impoundment - Special Guest Josh Chafetz

64

Where Are The Lines?

65

Birthright Citizenship - Judges on Benches v Judges on Barstools

66

Birthright and Birthwrong

67

End of an ERA

68

Looking Forward, Looking Back

69

Unconventional

70

Justice on the Spot - Special Guest Justice Stephen Breyer

71

Changing Your Mind, or Changing The Rules

72

Unpardonable

73

Recess Games - Special Guests Josh Chafetz and Thomas Schmidt

74

The Obsequious Instruments of His Pleasure

75

Does Section Three Live?

76

The Gaetz of Hell

77

Preview of Peril - Special Live Podcast

78

All This Fuss About the Presidential Election - Special Guests Gordon Wood, Steven Smith, Paul Grimstad

79

The Sound of Silence - Special Guest Ruth Marcus

80

Constitution Things

81

How to Fix - and How Not to Fix - the Immunity Opinion

82

Ex-Presidents: The Ex-cellent and the Ex-ecrable

83

The Return of the Enemies List

84

The Blue Dot

85

The Devil You Know

86

Your Turn

87

The Kennedy Shame and Schumer's Folly - Special Guest Ruth Marcus

88

Circuit of Shame

89

Term Limits Made Workable

90

How To Get To 18 Years

91

Stepping Aside and Its Implications

92

Virtuous Presidents and A Loose Cannon - guest Vikram Amar

93

Resignation Realities and Bullets Dodged (Part 4)

94

Disgrace

95

Debate Debacle, and Agency Atrophy

96

The Court's Originalism About Face

97

Protests, Mifepristone, and Bump Stocks

98

Lear Jets, Books, and Virtue

99

The Jury Speaks

100

Big Mouth on Campus

101

Flags of Our Spouses

102

Trials, Pardons, and Elephants

103

Immunity versus The Rule of Law

104

Sense and Nonsense on Immunity

105

Don't Touch but Do Convict

106

Crime Means Punishment

107

Immunity Therapy

108

No Standing Any Time

109

History Will Judge

110

Dissenting in Concurrence

111

What the Concurrences Should Have Said

112

Happy Anniversary Mr. Lincoln from the Court

113

Staking our Claim

114

What the Oral Argument Should Have Said - Part 2

115

What the Oral Argument Should Have Said

116

20 Questions on Section 3 and Insurrection #1 - Special Guest Ted Widmer

117

A Self-Educating Gaffe

118

The Amicus Brief - Part Two

119

Friends of the Court - The Brief

120

Section Three Goes to Washington

121

Section Three Punditry: The Good, The Bad, and The Silly

122

The World Turns to Section Three

123

Juries, Jarkesy, and a Joke

124

2 Experts, 3 Courts, Section 3, Part 3 - Special Guests William Baude and Michael Stokes Paulsen

125

Sandra the First

126

Sense and Nonsensibility on Section 3 - Special Guests Mark Graber and Gerard Magliocca

127

Guns, Clips, and Rahimi

128

Moore on the Brief - Special Guest Vikram David Amar

129

Moore, in Brief

130

Aisles, not Walls

131

Speakerless

132

A Tale of Two Jordans

133

Allen and Affirmative Action, Again

134

Eleven Presidents - Special Guest Bob Woodward

135

Have Kavanaugh, Will Travel

136

Justice Jackson’s Santa Clause

137

An Officer and a President

138

The Two Experts, Part Two - Special Guests William Baude and Michael Stokes Paulsen

139

The Two Experts on Section Three - Special Guests William Baude and Michael Stokes Paulsen

140

Georgia On Our Minds - Special Guest Ruth Marcus

141

This Must Be The Place

142

Third Time’s A Charm

143

The Legacy of the Harvard Case - Special Guest Jeffrey Brenzel

144

Amara Culpa, Amara Bene

145

Scrutinizing Affirmative Action - Special Guest Jeffrey Brenzel

146

The Rights of Bigots

147

No Moore ISL

148

Four Clauses, Two Juries

149

Whose Welfare?

150

The Judgment of History

151

I Am Calabresi

152

Crossfire on the Ceiling - Special Guests Jack Balkin and Saikrishna Prakash

153

Duct Tape on a Warhol - Special Guest James Boyle

154

Judging for Yourself - Special Guest Kathleen Clark

155

Coronation Considerations

156

More or Less Moore

157

Standing Rules

158

Judges and Adverse Events

159

Doubting Thomas, and doubting the doubters

160

Discretion and Indictment

161

Much to Bragg About?

162

It’s Coming

163

The Lord Mayor Adams

164

Sing a Song (of) Mike Pence

165

Torture, Time Travel, and Transformation

166

Secrets, Boards, and Moots - Oh My!

167

Treason, Reason, History, and OurStory - Special Guest Kermit Roosevelt III

168

Trillion Dollar Tricks - Special Guest Jack Balkin

169

Declaration, or Gettysburg? - Special Guest Kermit Roosevelt III

170

Wait - Don’t Tell Me!

171

The Idaho Murder Case in Constitutional Perspective

172

Speaker-ish

173

January 6th, Santos, and The Speaker

174

Strictly Scrutinizing Moore - Special Guest Kate Shaw

175

More on Moore - The Oral Argument, Continued

176

Mr. Amar Goes to Washington - the Moore v. Harper Oral Argument

177

Out-Ranked: Live Podcast with Yale Law School’s FedSoc Chapter

178

Ban the Box?

179

100 Podcasts for Us, 40 Years for FedSoc - Special Guest Steven G. Calabresi

180

Double Negative Action

181

The Federalist Society, in Brief - Special Guest Steven Calabresi

182

The News in Brief

183

The Brief in Brief

184

Sweet Hugo in Alabama - A Special Live Podcast

185

Zelig On The Court - Special Guest Brad Snyder

186

Zelig of the Court - Special Guest Brad Snyder

187

The Court’s Other Amy

188

Loving Lincoln, and Castigating Kastigar

189

Masters, Monarchs, and Mangling the Fifth

190

Trump Says His Name

191

Trump Takes the Fifth

192

Afraid to Ask: Hamilton and a Wealth Tax

193

Search-A-Lago

194

Originalism on Trial

195

Time is Now

196

Tackling Kennedy

197

Separate or Equal

198

The Long and The Short of Bruen

199

Unprecedented

200

Special Episode - Prediction and Prescription

201

The Real Steal, Part 3 - Special Guest Vikram D. Amar

202

The Real Steal, Part 2 - Special Guest Vikram D. Amar

203

The Real Steal - Part One

204

Guns, Legislation, Uvalde, and Bruen - special guest Adam Winkler

205

After Uvalde - What?

206

Is There a Dobbs Deal?

207

After Dobbs

208

The Memes of Dobbs’ Leak

209

Woe is Roe

210

Citizenship and Citations

211

Is Jackson Commissioned?

212

Rights and ”Justice”

213

Graham Crock-er

214

The Hearings According To Durbin - Special Guest Vikram D. Amar

215

Confirmation Correction - Special Guest Vikram D. Amar

216

Lawyer of the Century

217

The Music of the Law

218

Dellinger Departs, Jackson Arrives

219

Your Turn; Our Take

220

Now Now Now - Guest Jesse Wegman (Part 2)

221

A New ERA - Special Guest Jesse Wegman

222

Gary and Gorby - Special Guest Gary Hart

223

Debate Debate

224

Heart to Hart: Filibuster Finis - Special Guest Gary Hart

225

The Year and The Questions, Part 2

226

80 Years in 80 Minutes - A Special Live Episode

227

The Year That Was, and Your Questions

228

Roberts Court, or Trump Court? A Conversation with Linda Greenhouse

229

The Court Astonishes - Special Guest Ed Whelan

230

Roe Roe Roe: Stare and Stenchy

231

The Future of the Past

232

About Abortion - A Precedent Primer

233

To Heller and Back

234

Putting a Head to Our Gun

235

The Opening Episode

236

72 Term Papers

237

Errors of Commission

238

Speaking of the First Amendment - Joint Episode with FIRE

239

Adams or the Dog - Special Guest Edward Larson

240

Basically Random

241

Empire of History - Special Guest Gordon S. Wood

242

Literary Labyrinth

243

The Ayes and Nays Upon Texas

244

A Friendly Judge

245

Sabermetrics for Lawyers

246

Confirmation Cacophony

247

Neal Katyal's Life in the Law, Part 2 (Special Guest)

248

Neal Katyal's Life in the Law, Part I

249

Witness in the Center Square

250

Tall Tales

251

Architects May Come

252

Political Football

253

Know the Nine You Will

254

Yale's Constitution - Special Episode - Guest Nicholas Christakis

255

They Are Small Colleges

256

Princeton Palaver Present

257

Princeton Palaver Past

258

Harvard Hooey

259

Torture, Trump, and Tech - A Conversation with Alan Dershowitz

260

Constitutionalists United - Special Guest Floyd Abrams

261

Tinker to Amar to Strossen - Special Guest Nadine Strossen

262

Voracious Horatius

263

18 Arguments for 18 Years

264

Leaving The Field

265

Ending Catch-22

266

The Purpose of the Truth - Special Guest Bob Woodward

267

Advise and Impeach

268

Nullification Nullity

269

Jefferson Ben Amar

270

Sedition and Perdition

271

The Unanimous Man

272

Succession Inquisition

273

Snap - You're in Lisbon

274

Menus without Eating - Special Guest Prof. Philip Bobbitt

275

Ex-Pres Ex-perts

276

Bullets (Not) Dodged, Part 3: Shocked, Shocked!

277

Bullets Dodged, Part 2: The Faithless and the Feckless

278

Inauguration: Bullets Dodged