We the People host Jeffrey Rosen unveils his new book Conversations with RBG: Ruth Bader Ginsburg on Life, Love, Liberty, and Law in a live interview with Slate’s Dahlia Lithwick.

President Franklin D. Roosevelt won a third term in office in an unprecedented act that would be barred by a constitutional amendment a decade later.

On November 6, 1860, voters in the United States went to the polls in an election that ended with Abraham Lincoln as president, in an act that that led to the Civil War. But Lincoln’s actual victory didn’t happen on that day, and his victory wasn’t assured for months.

Ruling that President Trump's accounting firm must turn over personal and business tax records, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit allowed a New York State grand jury subpoena requesting those documents to go forward earlier this week. The president's legal team has said it plans to appeal the ruling to the Supreme Court by a November 14 deadline. At the Court, the main constitutional question the appeal is expected to raise is: Does the president, while serving in office, have complete immunity to any investigation by a state or local government prosecutor, even if the probe seeks information of a personal or private nature and does not demand access to any documents or data directly involving the performance of official duties?

The Second Circuit's ruling relied in significant part upon the Supreme Court’s 1974 decision in United States v. Nixon, upholding a subpoena directing then-President Richard M. Nixon to hand over to a federal criminal investigation documents and tape recordings involving the so-called “Watergate” scandal. 

The president's legal team is also awaiting the outcome of a case in a federal appeals court in Washington, D.C. involving a demand for Trump tax records held by the Mazars accounting firm, under a subpoena from the Oversight Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives. 

Trump tax returns case to reach justices shortly by Lyle Denniston

Trump tax return case likely headed to Supreme Court by Scott Bomboy

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The Supremacy Clause by Caleb Nelson and Kermit Roosevelt

Pulitzer Prize–winning historian Eric Foner joins America’s Town Hall for a timely discussion about the history of the battle to inscribe equality into the Constitution. The Declaration of Independence declared the truth of equality to be self-evident, but it took the Civil War and the adoption of three constitutional amendments to establish that ideal as part of our fundamental law. Foner traces the arc of the Reconstruction amendments from their dramatic pre-Civil War origins to today. Jeffrey Rosen, president and CEO of the National Constitution Center, moderates.

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