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Listen to recent episodes of the We the People podcast for current events issues your students may be asking about.
Death Row, Religious Freedom, Legislative Censure, and Free Speech
First Amendment experts Michael McConnell of Stanford Law School and Eugene Volokh of UCLA Law join host Jeffrey Rosen to discuss two nearly unanimous decisions in cases involving the First Amendment— Ramirez v. Collier, in which the Court sided with a death row inmate who claimed he had the right to have the religious leader of his choice touch him and pray audibly for him in the execution chamber and Houston Community College v. Wilson, where the Court held that a legislative censure issued by a community college board did not violate the free speech rights of the respondent, another trustee on the board. Listen here.
The Confirmation Hearings of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson
Lisa Tucker, associate professor of law at Drexel University, and Melissa Murray, Frederick I. and Grace Stokes Professor of Law at NYU Law, join host Jeffrey Rosen to recap what we learned about Judge Jackson through four days of questioning by the committee. Listen here.
Russia, Ukraine, Constitutionalism, and the Rule of Law
Kim Lane Scheppele and Jeffrey Kahn join Jeffrey Rosen, president and CEO of the National Constitution Center, to unpack the causes of the war between Russia and Ukraine, what potential implications for the core principles of liberal democracy and constitutionalism might be, and whether international law has any power to stop the fighting. Listen here.
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