The Trump administration’s decision to end Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) is being challenged at the Supreme Court, and argument was held earlier this week. Brianne Gorod and Josh Blackman join host Jeffrey Rosen to explore those challenges.

In a Supreme Court plea that almost surely is unique in American history, President Donald Trump asked the Supreme Court on Thursday to rule that he has “absolute immunity” to being prosecuted or even investigated for any crime while in office—at least if he is pursued by any state or local prosecutor in America.

A case involving the fatal shooting of a Mexican national by a United States Border Patrol agent is back at the Supreme Court a second time as the justices heard arguments this week in Hernandez v. Mesa.

The House Intelligence Committee held the first public hearings in its impeachment investigation of President Trump on Tuesday. You can read the testimony of Bill Taylor, the acting ambassador to Ukraine, and George Kent, the top State Department official overseeing Ukraine policy here, as well as the testimony of Marie Yovanovitch, the former ambassador to Ukraine here.

Curious about why Congress is holding these hearings, and how the rest of the impeachment process will work? Listen to the We the People episode linked below for an explainer on each step of impeachment—from House investigation to Senate trial and beyond.

What does the Constitution Say About Impeachment? We the People podcast

Article II, Section 4 by Neil J. Kinkopf and Keith E. Whittington

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.

Preet Bharara, former U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York and host of the podcast Stay Tuned with Preet, joined National Constitution Center President and CEO Jeffrey Rosen for a wide-ranging conversation featuring anecdotes from Bharara’s time as a federal prosecutor, his thoughts on the justice system and constitutional governance today, and more, as described in his new book, Doing Justice: A Prosecutor's Thoughts on Crime, Punishment, and the Rule of Law.

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