February 08, 2021
Senate Republicans say the text of the Constitution only allows sitting presidents to be tried after they are impeached, but Democrats argue there is a precedent that the Senate has tried former officials in the past. So who is right?
The National Constitution Center's Jeffrey Rosen joins MSNBCs Ali Velshi to look at both sides of the following argument: Is the Senate impeachment trial of a former president unconstitutional?
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Scholars John Q. Barrett, Gerard Magliocca, and G. Edward White discuss Justice Robert Jackson’s influential concurrence in…
President Donald Trump’s recent talk of potentially acquiring Greenland has sparked a new debate about questions that pre-date…
In this session, students engage in a conversation on slavery in America from the Constitution to Reconstruction. This session…
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