Is the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Unconstitutional? 

Run time: 45 minutes

Brianne Gorod and Jennifer Mascott join Jeffrey Rosen to recap the oral arguments in the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau v. Community Financial Services Association of America case. Listen now

The Forgotten Years of the Civil Rights Movement

Run time: 1 hour

Prize-winning historians Kate Masur and Dylan Penningroth explore the central role of African Americans in the struggle for justice and equality long before the social movement of the 1950s and 1960s. Watch now

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The Speaker of the House’s Constitutional Role

by Scott Bomboy | Read time: 4 minutes

“The current controversy over the Speaker of the House of Representatives has highlighted that position’s role as one of the most important elected officials in Washington. ...” Read more

Rutherford B. Hayes: Controversial and Little Remembered

by Scott Bomboy | Read time: 3 minutes

“October 4 marks the birthday of one of the most controversial Presidents, Rutherford B. Hayes, who took office amid a constitutional crisis and left office defending his reputation. ...” Read more

Sonia Sotomayor, the ‘People’s Justice’

In 2009, Sonia Sotomayor became the nation’s first Hispanic Supreme Court justice. Since then, she has staked out notable positions in cases involving race, same-sex marriage, and privacy rights. Celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month by learning more about Justice Sotomayor in this Constitution Daily blog.

Article I, Section 9, Clause 7

“No Money shall be drawn from the Treasury, but in Consequence of Appropriations made by Law; and a regular Statement and Account of the Receipts and Expenditures of all public Money shall be published from time to time.”

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