Roe
Trump has a second Supreme Court pick and that has a lot of people wondering about the future of Roe v. Wade. Here we look at the constitutional basis of the decision and the strange personal history ...
16 Aug 201825min
Justice Kennedy
Justice Kennedy decided to retire at the end of this Supreme Court term. Kennedy has been the swing vote on a lot of important cases. He’s mostly considered a conservative, but he has voted with the m...
6 Jul 201824min
Taking the Fifth
Trump has said the taking the fifth makes "you look guilty as hell" but lot of Trump's associates are now taking the fifth in the Russia investigation. How should we interpret people taking the fifth?...
29 Jun 201819min
President Twitter and the First Amendment
Can Trump block people on Twitter? It turns out, the First Amendment has something to say about that. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection...
9 Jun 201820min
Posse Comitatus
The Posse Comitatus Act limits the federal government’s ability to use the military to enforce domestic policy within the United States. However, this act has so many allowable exceptions, it has rare...
22 Mai 201821min
Attorney Client Privilege
When the office of Trump’s personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, was raided by the FBI, Trump took twitter to express his concern. He wrote “Attorney-client privilege is dead!” Let’s see if it is. Hosted by...
27 Apr 201824min
Deadly Force
The Fourth Amendment includes the right to be secure from “unreasonable searches and seizure.” We have some idea of how this applies to cops, but if teachers are allowed to carry guns in school, are t...
15 Mar 201819min
The Poisonous Tree
The Russia investigation has been called a "witch hunt" by Trump and his supporters on Twitter. And they've invoked the legal concept "the fruit of the poisonous tree" to invalidate the investigation....
23 Feb 201817min
