Our hosts, law professor Ilan Wurman and Kathryn Johnson, get a full hour with Mollie Hemingway, editor-in-chief of The Federalist and author of the new New York Times bestseller, Alito: The Justice Who Reshaped the Supreme Court and Restored the Constitution. They touch on several themes in the book and connect them to current issues and news. Is Alito an originalist? What is a "practical originalist"? Why did he make fun of Justice Scalia, saying he wanted to know what James Madison thought about video games? What do the attacks on Alito show us about the Left's strategy and tactics more broadly? What is "demosprudence"? The "Greenhouse effect"? And what's the Shadow Docket? Our hosts then talk with Mollie about the recent Voting Rights Act decision, about election integrity more generally, and here takeaway from the birthright citizenship oral arguments, which she attended. Enjoy and please like and subscribe!

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Our hosts, law professor Ilan Wurman and Kathryn Johnson, revisit the issue of Trump's ballroom after the recent assassination attempt. Ilan sticks to his guns and thinks Congress has to approve the ballroom; Kathryn is skeptical. Both agree, though, that the District Court case against the ballroom is ridiculous because the plaintiff doesn't have standing. Our hosts pivot to the Democrats' plan to pack the Supreme Court and make D.C. a state. They talk about the history of circuit riding and the need to increase the number of lower court judges after Biden shamefully vetoed a bipartisan bill in 2024. They talk about Congress's power over and duties toward the other branches through the Necessary and Proper Clause. Their longest discussion is about the Fifth Circuit's ruling allowing the Ten Commandments to be displayed in Texas classrooms. The audience can join Kathryn as Ilan tests her on the application of the infamous "Lemon test" for religious establishment.

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Our hosts, law professor Ilan Wurman and Kathryn Johnson, take a deep dive into the ongoing January 6 lawfare, and particularly the civil lawsuit against President Trump brought by capitol police officers and lawmakers in D.C. Did you even know that such a lawsuit was going on? Our hosts break down the 2024 immunity decision, talk about the Independent Counsel statute from the Watergate era, and break down the causes of action against Trump in the civil case. Did Trump "direct" others to assault and batter capitol police officers? Did he "aid and abet" the attacks? Or is the civil lawsuit another outrageous attempt by Movement lawyers to abuse the legal process to harass their political opponents? The hosts round out the episode with discussion of the lawfare against the ordinary citizens who served as "alternate electors" in 2020 and the recent disbarment of Trump lawyer John Eastman.

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