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Amarica's Constitution — 287 episodes

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1

Dissenting from the Dissents

2

Unitary Duality - Guests Steven Calabresi and Vikram Amar

3

Lincoln's Promise Kept

4

No Coffee for You

5

Reverence and Radicalism: Remembering Gordon Wood

6

Bigotry vs Bureaucracy: State Action and Private Freedom

7

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

8

Unrehearsed Answers

9

Scrip for Scripture on the National Mall

10

JFK's Wall

11

Fourteen Colonies, Ten Commandments

12

Remember the Alamo Heights

13

Popes and Presidents

14

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

15

New World, Same Constitution

16

Crib Sheets for Barbara

17

Created to Born to Barbara

18

A Brief Ecosystem

19

Substantive Expansion - with Advisory Opinions and Divided Argument

20

Attorney Amar's Opening Argument

21

Tariffs Are A Major Question - Special Guest Vikram Amar

22

Pillorying the Post

23

Converse-1983 Is A Thing

24

A Virtuous Republic, If You Can Keep It

25

Five-Oh and Four Questions

26

High Fives

27

The Minnesota Massacre

28

Venezuelan Frisbie

29

Your Questions, Easy and Hard

30

No Army At All

31

Courage is Contagious - Special Guest Congresswoman Maggie Goodlander

32

Humphrey's Execution

33

Balance and Check-Mate - Special Guest John Fabian Witt

34

The Only Only

35

The Undigested Matzo Ball

36

Incidental Trillions

37

Election Correction - Special Guest Vikram D. Amar

38

250 Episodes, 250 Years - and a surprise guest!

39

The Threads of Liberty - Special Guest Jeffrey Rosen

40

Opinions on Opinions

41

Dereliction of Duties

42

A Tale of Three Cities

43

Out in the World

44

Blast Off!

45

The Big Equal

46

The 64 Percent Question

47

The Land of The Land

48

The Good of the Country

49

We the Who? - Special Guest Jill Hasday

50

Skrmetti Skirmish

51

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

52

Fallon's Doctrine - Special Guest Michael Dorf

53

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

54

Speaking the Law

55

Children, Indoctrination, and Ideas

56

Imbalance of Power

57

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

58

Count to Ten

59

Competence, Character - or Cannon

60

Possibly Preparing Humphrey's Execution

61

The Merits of The Merits

62

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

63

No School For You - Special Guest Vikram D. Amar

64

Equality, Emergencies, Exception, and Easter

65

Project 2026

66

Third Time, No Charm

67

Wisdom From Breyer To Pryor - Special Guest Judge William Pryor

68

The Shelter From The Storm - Special Guest Hampton Dellinger

69

Marbury then, Mayhem now

70

Sinking the Unitary Executive - Special Guest Steven G. Calabresi

71

Across the Aisle - Special Guest Steven G. Calabresi

72

Impounding Impoundment - Special Guest Josh Chafetz

73

Where Are The Lines?

74

Birthright Citizenship - Judges on Benches v Judges on Barstools

75

Birthright and Birthwrong

76

End of an ERA

77

Looking Forward, Looking Back

78

Unconventional

79

Justice on the Spot - Special Guest Justice Stephen Breyer

80

Changing Your Mind, or Changing The Rules

81

Unpardonable

82

Recess Games - Special Guests Josh Chafetz and Thomas Schmidt

83

The Obsequious Instruments of His Pleasure

84

Does Section Three Live?

85

The Gaetz of Hell

86

Preview of Peril - Special Live Podcast

87

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

88

The Sound of Silence - Special Guest Ruth Marcus

89

Constitution Things

90

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

91

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

92

The Return of the Enemies List

93

The Blue Dot

94

The Devil You Know

95

Your Turn

96

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

97

Circuit of Shame

98

Term Limits Made Workable

99

How To Get To 18 Years

100

Stepping Aside and Its Implications

101

Virtuous Presidents and A Loose Cannon - guest Vikram Amar

102

Resignation Realities and Bullets Dodged (Part 4)

103

Disgrace

104

Debate Debacle, and Agency Atrophy

105

The Court's Originalism About Face

106

Protests, Mifepristone, and Bump Stocks

107

Lear Jets, Books, and Virtue

108

The Jury Speaks

109

Big Mouth on Campus

110

Flags of Our Spouses

111

Trials, Pardons, and Elephants

112

Immunity versus The Rule of Law

113

Sense and Nonsense on Immunity

114

Don't Touch but Do Convict

115

Crime Means Punishment

116

Immunity Therapy

117

No Standing Any Time

118

History Will Judge

119

Dissenting in Concurrence

120

What the Concurrences Should Have Said

121

Happy Anniversary Mr. Lincoln from the Court

122

Staking our Claim

123

What the Oral Argument Should Have Said - Part 2

124

What the Oral Argument Should Have Said

125

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

126

A Self-Educating Gaffe

127

The Amicus Brief - Part Two

128

Friends of the Court - The Brief

129

Section Three Goes to Washington

130

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

131

The World Turns to Section Three

132

Juries, Jarkesy, and a Joke

133

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

134

Sandra the First

135

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

136

Guns, Clips, and Rahimi

137

Moore on the Brief - Special Guest Vikram David Amar

138

Moore, in Brief

139

Aisles, not Walls

140

Speakerless

141

A Tale of Two Jordans

142

Allen and Affirmative Action, Again

143

Eleven Presidents - Special Guest Bob Woodward

144

Have Kavanaugh, Will Travel

145

Justice Jackson’s Santa Clause

146

An Officer and a President

147

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

148

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

149

Georgia On Our Minds - Special Guest Ruth Marcus

150

This Must Be The Place

151

Third Time’s A Charm

152

The Legacy of the Harvard Case - Special Guest Jeffrey Brenzel

153

Amara Culpa, Amara Bene

154

Scrutinizing Affirmative Action - Special Guest Jeffrey Brenzel

155

The Rights of Bigots

156

No Moore ISL

157

Four Clauses, Two Juries

158

Whose Welfare?

159

The Judgment of History

160

I Am Calabresi

161

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

162

Duct Tape on a Warhol - Special Guest James Boyle

163

Judging for Yourself - Special Guest Kathleen Clark

164

Coronation Considerations

165

More or Less Moore

166

Standing Rules

167

Judges and Adverse Events

168

Doubting Thomas, and doubting the doubters

169

Discretion and Indictment

170

Much to Bragg About?

171

It’s Coming

172

The Lord Mayor Adams

173

Sing a Song (of) Mike Pence

174

Torture, Time Travel, and Transformation

175

Secrets, Boards, and Moots - Oh My!

176

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

177

Trillion Dollar Tricks - Special Guest Jack Balkin

178

Declaration, or Gettysburg? - Special Guest Kermit Roosevelt III

179

Wait - Don’t Tell Me!

180

The Idaho Murder Case in Constitutional Perspective

181

Speaker-ish

182

January 6th, Santos, and The Speaker

183

Strictly Scrutinizing Moore - Special Guest Kate Shaw

184

More on Moore - The Oral Argument, Continued

185

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

186

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

187

Ban the Box?

188

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

189

Double Negative Action

190

The Federalist Society, in Brief - Special Guest Steven Calabresi

191

The News in Brief

192

The Brief in Brief

193

Sweet Hugo in Alabama - A Special Live Podcast

194

Zelig On The Court - Special Guest Brad Snyder

195

Zelig of the Court - Special Guest Brad Snyder

196

The Court’s Other Amy

197

Loving Lincoln, and Castigating Kastigar

198

Masters, Monarchs, and Mangling the Fifth

199

Trump Says His Name

200

Trump Takes the Fifth

201

Afraid to Ask: Hamilton and a Wealth Tax

202

Search-A-Lago

203

Originalism on Trial

204

Time is Now

205

Tackling Kennedy

206

Separate or Equal

207

The Long and The Short of Bruen

208

Unprecedented

209

Special Episode - Prediction and Prescription

210

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

211

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

212

The Real Steal - Part One

213

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

214

After Uvalde - What?

215

Is There a Dobbs Deal?

216

After Dobbs

217

The Memes of Dobbs’ Leak

218

Woe is Roe

219

Citizenship and Citations

220

Is Jackson Commissioned?

221

Rights and ”Justice”

222

Graham Crock-er

223

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

224

Confirmation Correction - Special Guest Vikram D. Amar

225

Lawyer of the Century

226

The Music of the Law

227

Dellinger Departs, Jackson Arrives

228

Your Turn; Our Take

229

Now Now Now - Guest Jesse Wegman (Part 2)

230

A New ERA - Special Guest Jesse Wegman

231

Gary and Gorby - Special Guest Gary Hart

232

Debate Debate

233

Heart to Hart: Filibuster Finis - Special Guest Gary Hart

234

The Year and The Questions, Part 2

235

80 Years in 80 Minutes - A Special Live Episode

236

The Year That Was, and Your Questions

237

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

238

The Court Astonishes - Special Guest Ed Whelan

239

Roe Roe Roe: Stare and Stenchy

240

The Future of the Past

241

About Abortion - A Precedent Primer

242

To Heller and Back

243

Putting a Head to Our Gun

244

The Opening Episode

245

72 Term Papers

246

Errors of Commission

247

Speaking of the First Amendment - Joint Episode with FIRE

248

Adams or the Dog - Special Guest Edward Larson

249

Basically Random

250

Empire of History - Special Guest Gordon S. Wood

251

Literary Labyrinth

252

The Ayes and Nays Upon Texas

253

A Friendly Judge

254

Sabermetrics for Lawyers

255

Confirmation Cacophony

256

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

257

Neal Katyal's Life in the Law, Part I

258

Witness in the Center Square

259

Tall Tales

260

Architects May Come

261

Political Football

262

Know the Nine You Will

263

Yale's Constitution - Special Episode - Guest Nicholas Christakis

264

They Are Small Colleges

265

Princeton Palaver Present

266

Princeton Palaver Past

267

Harvard Hooey

268

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

269

Constitutionalists United - Special Guest Floyd Abrams

270

Tinker to Amar to Strossen - Special Guest Nadine Strossen

271

Voracious Horatius

272

18 Arguments for 18 Years

273

Leaving The Field

274

Ending Catch-22

275

The Purpose of the Truth - Special Guest Bob Woodward

276

Advise and Impeach

277

Nullification Nullity

278

Jefferson Ben Amar

279

Sedition and Perdition

280

The Unanimous Man

281

Succession Inquisition

282

Snap - You're in Lisbon

283

Menus without Eating - Special Guest Prof. Philip Bobbitt

284

Ex-Pres Ex-perts

285

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

286

Bullets Dodged, Part 2: The Faithless and the Feckless

287

Inauguration: Bullets Dodged