Bong Hits for Jesus

Bong Hits for Jesus

Author: Roman Mars July 2, 2021 Duration: 33:32
A quick roundup of three Supreme Court decisions that came down at the end of June

Roman Mars hosts What Trump Can Teach Us About Con Law, a series that uses the unprecedented events of a single presidency as a live case study in American government. The core of the podcast comes from constitutional law professor Elizabeth Joh, who found her usual curriculum upended during those four years. Instead of relying solely on settled historical cases, she began scrambling to reconcile the latest presidential tweet or statement with centuries of judicial precedent minutes before walking into her classroom. Each episode digs into one of those real-time constitutional puzzles-questions about pardons, emoluments, executive orders, and presidential power that moved from theoretical to urgently practical. Listening feels like auditing a dynamic, topical seminar where complex legal concepts are unpacked through the lens of recent history. You’ll hear how the foundational document is stretched, tested, and interpreted not in the abstract, but through the actions of the 45th president. This isn’t about politics; it’s about the machinery of the constitution itself, examined at a moment when it was under extraordinary public scrutiny. The podcast makes the often-opaque world of constitutional law accessible and immediately relevant, showing how its principles are constantly being defined by the present.
Author: Language: English Episodes: 93

What Trump Can Teach Us About Con Law
Podcast Episodes
The Socially Distanced SCOTUS [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

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Jacobson and COVID [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 30:41
In mid-April, 2020, states are beginning to explore ways to re-open their economies amid the global coronavirus pandemic. But with states devising their own paths forward, many are wondering what powers the government ha…
Quarantine Powers [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 32:54
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Prosecutorial Discretion [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 34:13
Prosecutors recommended that Roger Stone, an associate of Donald Trump, be given a heavy penalty after being convicted of seven felony counts, including lying to authorities. But after intervention from Attorney General…
War Powers and Impeachment Update [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 36:05
After Donald Trump ordered the killing of Iranian general Qasem Soleimani, many wondered if the two countries were on the brink of a major conflict. This incident is only the latest in the long-standing fight between Con…
Bribery [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 30:32
Bribery is one of the three offenses listed in the Constitution as grounds for impeachment. Even though that is attempting to bribe Ukraine is the act that precipitated to Trump’s impeachment, it’s not explicitly listed…
Confrontation Clause [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 29:40
Since the beginning of the impeachment proceedings against the President, Donald Trump has insisted he has a right to confront “the whistleblower,” the anonymous member of the intelligence community who set the whole thi…
Foreign Affairs [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 29:09
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Obstruction [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 26:33
Trump lawyers assert that all of Trump’s actions during the Mueller investigation were within his rights as President and can’t be classified as obstruction of justice, especially because there is no underlying crime all…
Contempt Power [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 20:58
What is Congress’ contempt power and how can they use it to force people to cooperate with their investigations?