Amarica's Constitution

The Birthright Citizenship case reached the Supreme Court - sort of.  The Court ruled on the executive branch’s request for a stay in response to nationwide injunctions issued by three different circu...

9 Jul 20251h 26min

The end of the term arrives, and the Court is busy.  We begin our dive into  the cases with Mahmoud v. Taylor, a case involving inclusive books in a school, parental guidance of religious education, o...

2 Jul 20251h 32min

The US enters a violent part of the world once again, as Iran’s nuclear facilities are bombed.  The President orders this without consulting Congress; indeed without asking for, much less receiving a ...

26 Jun 20251h 30min

Former Justice Breyer returns to Amarica’s Constitution with reflections on his long-time colleague and, yes, his friend, in a rare opportunity to hear about relationships on the Court.  Meanwhile, fo...

19 Jun 20251h 45min

The Supreme Court left lower courts somewhat in the lurch in its recent Bruen decision; last year, in Rahimi, it attempted to clarify matters.  Now an assault weapons case reaches the Court, Snope v. ...

11 Jun 20251h 24min

Trump says he will no longer take advice from the Federalist Society, and Leonard Leo in particular, for judicial nominations.  The criteria he will use instead appear to be cause for great concern, a...

4 Jun 20251h 51min

This past week, the Supreme Court issued stays of injunctions which lower courts had issued, those injunctions blocking the firings of officials on statutorily independent agencies.  In doing so, the ...

28 Mai 20251h 50min

The Trump executive order on birthright citizenship has been banging around the lower federal courts for months now, with court after court opining on its unconstitutionality and issuing injunctions a...

21 Mai 20251h 45min