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Amarica's Constitution — 294 episodes

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1

The Statesman's Constitution - Special Guest Steven B. Smith

2

An Amendment Like Some Others - Special Guest Vikram D. Amar

3

Preclearing the President

4

There You Go Again

5

Dobbs and Bruen Plus Time

6

Faces of Intratextualism

7

The Surprising Score

8

Dissenting from the Dissents

9

Unitary Duality - Guests Steven Calabresi and Vikram Amar

10

Lincoln's Promise Kept

11

No Coffee for You

12

Reverence and Radicalism: Remembering Gordon Wood

13

Bigotry vs Bureaucracy: State Action and Private Freedom

14

Rosen on Liberty; Gorsuch on Gorsuch - with Jeffrey Rosen and Justice Neil Gorsuch

15

Unrehearsed Answers

16

Scrip for Scripture on the National Mall

17

JFK's Wall

18

Fourteen Colonies, Ten Commandments

19

Remember the Alamo Heights

20

Popes and Presidents

21

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

22

New World, Same Constitution

23

Crib Sheets for Barbara

24

Created to Born to Barbara

25

A Brief Ecosystem

26

Substantive Expansion - with Advisory Opinions and Divided Argument

27

Attorney Amar's Opening Argument

28

Tariffs Are A Major Question - Special Guest Vikram Amar

29

Pillorying the Post

30

Converse-1983 Is A Thing

31

A Virtuous Republic, If You Can Keep It

32

Five-Oh and Four Questions

33

High Fives

34

The Minnesota Massacre

35

Venezuelan Frisbie

36

Your Questions, Easy and Hard

37

No Army At All

38

Courage is Contagious - Special Guest Congresswoman Maggie Goodlander

39

Humphrey's Execution

40

Balance and Check-Mate - Special Guest John Fabian Witt

41

The Only Only

42

The Undigested Matzo Ball

43

Incidental Trillions

44

Election Correction - Special Guest Vikram D. Amar

45

250 Episodes, 250 Years - and a surprise guest!

46

The Threads of Liberty - Special Guest Jeffrey Rosen

47

Opinions on Opinions

48

Dereliction of Duties

49

A Tale of Three Cities

50

Out in the World

51

Blast Off!

52

The Big Equal

53

The 64 Percent Question

54

The Land of The Land

55

The Good of the Country

56

We the Who? - Special Guest Jill Hasday

57

Skrmetti Skirmish

58

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

59

Fallon's Doctrine - Special Guest Michael Dorf

60

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

61

Speaking the Law

62

Children, Indoctrination, and Ideas

63

Imbalance of Power

64

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

65

Count to Ten

66

Competence, Character - or Cannon

67

Possibly Preparing Humphrey's Execution

68

The Merits of The Merits

69

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

70

No School For You - Special Guest Vikram D. Amar

71

Equality, Emergencies, Exception, and Easter

72

Project 2026

73

Third Time, No Charm

74

Wisdom From Breyer To Pryor - Special Guest Judge William Pryor

75

The Shelter From The Storm - Special Guest Hampton Dellinger

76

Marbury then, Mayhem now

77

Sinking the Unitary Executive - Special Guest Steven G. Calabresi

78

Across the Aisle - Special Guest Steven G. Calabresi

79

Impounding Impoundment - Special Guest Josh Chafetz

80

Where Are The Lines?

81

Birthright Citizenship - Judges on Benches v Judges on Barstools

82

Birthright and Birthwrong

83

End of an ERA

84

Looking Forward, Looking Back

85

Unconventional

86

Justice on the Spot - Special Guest Justice Stephen Breyer

87

Changing Your Mind, or Changing The Rules

88

Unpardonable

89

Recess Games - Special Guests Josh Chafetz and Thomas Schmidt

90

The Obsequious Instruments of His Pleasure

91

Does Section Three Live?

92

The Gaetz of Hell

93

Preview of Peril - Special Live Podcast

94

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

95

The Sound of Silence - Special Guest Ruth Marcus

96

Constitution Things

97

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

98

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

99

The Return of the Enemies List

100

The Blue Dot

101

The Devil You Know

102

Your Turn

103

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

104

Circuit of Shame

105

Term Limits Made Workable

106

How To Get To 18 Years

107

Stepping Aside and Its Implications

108

Virtuous Presidents and A Loose Cannon - guest Vikram Amar

109

Resignation Realities and Bullets Dodged (Part 4)

110

Disgrace

111

Debate Debacle, and Agency Atrophy

112

The Court's Originalism About Face

113

Protests, Mifepristone, and Bump Stocks

114

Lear Jets, Books, and Virtue

115

The Jury Speaks

116

Big Mouth on Campus

117

Flags of Our Spouses

118

Trials, Pardons, and Elephants

119

Immunity versus The Rule of Law

120

Sense and Nonsense on Immunity

121

Don't Touch but Do Convict

122

Crime Means Punishment

123

Immunity Therapy

124

No Standing Any Time

125

History Will Judge

126

Dissenting in Concurrence

127

What the Concurrences Should Have Said

128

Happy Anniversary Mr. Lincoln from the Court

129

Staking our Claim

130

What the Oral Argument Should Have Said - Part 2

131

What the Oral Argument Should Have Said

132

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

133

A Self-Educating Gaffe

134

The Amicus Brief - Part Two

135

Friends of the Court - The Brief

136

Section Three Goes to Washington

137

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

138

The World Turns to Section Three

139

Juries, Jarkesy, and a Joke

140

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

141

Sandra the First

142

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

143

Guns, Clips, and Rahimi

144

Moore on the Brief - Special Guest Vikram David Amar

145

Moore, in Brief

146

Aisles, not Walls

147

Speakerless

148

A Tale of Two Jordans

149

Allen and Affirmative Action, Again

150

Eleven Presidents - Special Guest Bob Woodward

151

Have Kavanaugh, Will Travel

152

Justice Jackson’s Santa Clause

153

An Officer and a President

154

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

155

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

156

Georgia On Our Minds - Special Guest Ruth Marcus

157

This Must Be The Place

158

Third Time’s A Charm

159

The Legacy of the Harvard Case - Special Guest Jeffrey Brenzel

160

Amara Culpa, Amara Bene

161

Scrutinizing Affirmative Action - Special Guest Jeffrey Brenzel

162

The Rights of Bigots

163

No Moore ISL

164

Four Clauses, Two Juries

165

Whose Welfare?

166

The Judgment of History

167

I Am Calabresi

168

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

169

Duct Tape on a Warhol - Special Guest James Boyle

170

Judging for Yourself - Special Guest Kathleen Clark

171

Coronation Considerations

172

More or Less Moore

173

Standing Rules

174

Judges and Adverse Events

175

Doubting Thomas, and doubting the doubters

176

Discretion and Indictment

177

Much to Bragg About?

178

It’s Coming

179

The Lord Mayor Adams

180

Sing a Song (of) Mike Pence

181

Torture, Time Travel, and Transformation

182

Secrets, Boards, and Moots - Oh My!

183

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

184

Trillion Dollar Tricks - Special Guest Jack Balkin

185

Declaration, or Gettysburg? - Special Guest Kermit Roosevelt III

186

Wait - Don’t Tell Me!

187

The Idaho Murder Case in Constitutional Perspective

188

Speaker-ish

189

January 6th, Santos, and The Speaker

190

Strictly Scrutinizing Moore - Special Guest Kate Shaw

191

More on Moore - The Oral Argument, Continued

192

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

193

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

194

Ban the Box?

195

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

196

Double Negative Action

197

The Federalist Society, in Brief - Special Guest Steven Calabresi

198

The News in Brief

199

The Brief in Brief

200

Sweet Hugo in Alabama - A Special Live Podcast

201

Zelig On The Court - Special Guest Brad Snyder

202

Zelig of the Court - Special Guest Brad Snyder

203

The Court’s Other Amy

204

Loving Lincoln, and Castigating Kastigar

205

Masters, Monarchs, and Mangling the Fifth

206

Trump Says His Name

207

Trump Takes the Fifth

208

Afraid to Ask: Hamilton and a Wealth Tax

209

Search-A-Lago

210

Originalism on Trial

211

Time is Now

212

Tackling Kennedy

213

Separate or Equal

214

The Long and The Short of Bruen

215

Unprecedented

216

Special Episode - Prediction and Prescription

217

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

218

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

219

The Real Steal - Part One

220

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

221

After Uvalde - What?

222

Is There a Dobbs Deal?

223

After Dobbs

224

The Memes of Dobbs’ Leak

225

Woe is Roe

226

Citizenship and Citations

227

Is Jackson Commissioned?

228

Rights and ”Justice”

229

Graham Crock-er

230

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

231

Confirmation Correction - Special Guest Vikram D. Amar

232

Lawyer of the Century

233

The Music of the Law

234

Dellinger Departs, Jackson Arrives

235

Your Turn; Our Take

236

Now Now Now - Guest Jesse Wegman (Part 2)

237

A New ERA - Special Guest Jesse Wegman

238

Gary and Gorby - Special Guest Gary Hart

239

Debate Debate

240

Heart to Hart: Filibuster Finis - Special Guest Gary Hart

241

The Year and The Questions, Part 2

242

80 Years in 80 Minutes - A Special Live Episode

243

The Year That Was, and Your Questions

244

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

245

The Court Astonishes - Special Guest Ed Whelan

246

Roe Roe Roe: Stare and Stenchy

247

The Future of the Past

248

About Abortion - A Precedent Primer

249

To Heller and Back

250

Putting a Head to Our Gun

251

The Opening Episode

252

72 Term Papers

253

Errors of Commission

254

Speaking of the First Amendment - Joint Episode with FIRE

255

Adams or the Dog - Special Guest Edward Larson

256

Basically Random

257

Empire of History - Special Guest Gordon S. Wood

258

Literary Labyrinth

259

The Ayes and Nays Upon Texas

260

A Friendly Judge

261

Sabermetrics for Lawyers

262

Confirmation Cacophony

263

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

264

Neal Katyal's Life in the Law, Part I

265

Witness in the Center Square

266

Tall Tales

267

Architects May Come

268

Political Football

269

Know the Nine You Will

270

Yale's Constitution - Special Episode - Guest Nicholas Christakis

271

They Are Small Colleges

272

Princeton Palaver Present

273

Princeton Palaver Past

274

Harvard Hooey

275

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

276

Constitutionalists United - Special Guest Floyd Abrams

277

Tinker to Amar to Strossen - Special Guest Nadine Strossen

278

Voracious Horatius

279

18 Arguments for 18 Years

280

Leaving The Field

281

Ending Catch-22

282

The Purpose of the Truth - Special Guest Bob Woodward

283

Advise and Impeach

284

Nullification Nullity

285

Jefferson Ben Amar

286

Sedition and Perdition

287

The Unanimous Man

288

Succession Inquisition

289

Snap - You're in Lisbon

290

Menus without Eating - Special Guest Prof. Philip Bobbitt

291

Ex-Pres Ex-perts

292

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

293

Bullets Dodged, Part 2: The Faithless and the Feckless

294

Inauguration: Bullets Dodged