2019 saw the impeachment of a president for just the third time in American history, the release of the Mueller report, and court battles over DACA, reproductive rights, and the Affordable Care Act. David French, TIME columnist and senior editor at The Dispatch, and Kate Shaw, Cardozo Law professor and ABC Legal Analyst, join host Jeffrey Rosen to review this year in constitutional debate. They give their takes on the possible long-term constitutional implications of the ongoing impeachment, Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation in retrospect, and how the “Kavanaugh Court” is likely to rule in a key upcoming abortion case, the battle over rescinding DACA, and the question of whether President Trump must release his financial records.
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David French is a senior editor for The Dispatch, a columnist at TIME, and a former senior writer at National Review. David is a bestselling author, an attorney, and the past president of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education.
Kate Shaw is a Professor of Law and the Co-Director of the Floersheimer Center for Constitutional Democracy at Cardozo Law. She is an ABC News Legal Analyst and host of the podcast Strict Scrutiny. Kate previously worked in the White House Counsel’s office under President Obama.
Jeffrey Rosen is the President and Chief Executive Officer of the National Constitution Center, the only institution in America chartered by Congress “to disseminate information about the United States Constitution on a nonpartisan basis.”
Additional Resources
- Impeachment vote results
- Federalist No. 65
- Report On The Investigation Into Russian Interference In The 2016 Election (“The Mueller Report”) Vol. I and Vol. II
- June Medical Services LLC v. Gee
- “A Fetal Right to Life? Abortion and the Constitution Part 2” We the People episode
- Department of Homeland Security v. Regents of the University of California (the DACA case)
- Trump v. Mazars USA, LLP
This episode was engineered by David Stotz and produced by Jackie McDermott. Research was provided by Lana Ulrich and Jackie McDermott.
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