Amarica's Constitution
Professor Akhil Reed Amar, Sterling Professor of Law and Political Science at Yale University and one of the nation’s leading authorities on the Constitution, offers weekly in-depth discussions on the most urgent and fascinating constitutional issues of our day. He is joined by host Andy Lipka and guests drawn from other top experts including Bob Woodward, Lawrence Lessig, Neal Katyal, Michael Gerhardt, and many more.
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The Devil You Know
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Your Turn
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The Kennedy Shame and Schumer's Folly - Special Guest Ruth Marcus
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Circuit of Shame
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Term Limits Made Workable
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How To Get To 18 Years
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Stepping Aside and Its Implications
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Virtuous Presidents and A Loose Cannon - guest Vikram Amar
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Resignation Realities and Bullets Dodged (Part 4)
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Disgrace
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Debate Debacle, and Agency Atrophy
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The Court's Originalism About Face
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Protests, Mifepristone, and Bump Stocks
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Lear Jets, Books, and Virtue
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The Jury Speaks
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Big Mouth on Campus
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Flags of Our Spouses
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Trials, Pardons, and Elephants
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Immunity versus The Rule of Law
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Sense and Nonsense on Immunity
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Don't Touch but Do Convict
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Crime Means Punishment
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Immunity Therapy
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No Standing Any Time
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History Will Judge
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Dissenting in Concurrence
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What the Concurrences Should Have Said
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Happy Anniversary Mr. Lincoln from the Court
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Staking our Claim
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What the Oral Argument Should Have Said - Part 2
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What the Oral Argument Should Have Said
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20 Questions on Section 3 and Insurrection #1 - Special Guest Ted Widmer
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A Self-Educating Gaffe
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The Amicus Brief - Part Two
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Friends of the Court - The Brief
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Section Three Goes to Washington
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Section Three Punditry: The Good, The Bad, and The Silly
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The World Turns to Section Three
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Juries, Jarkesy, and a Joke
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2 Experts, 3 Courts, Section 3, Part 3 - Special Guests William Baude and Michae...
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Sandra the First
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Sense and Nonsensibility on Section 3 - Special Guests Mark Graber and Gerard Ma...
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Guns, Clips, and Rahimi
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Moore on the Brief - Special Guest Vikram David Amar
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Moore, in Brief
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Aisles, not Walls
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Speakerless
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A Tale of Two Jordans
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Allen and Affirmative Action, Again
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Eleven Presidents - Special Guest Bob Woodward
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