In this episode, Ilya Shapiro, Director of the Robert A. Levy Center for Constitutional Studies at the Cato Institute, discusses his article "The Once and Future Privileges or Immunities Clause," which he co-authored with Josh Blackman, and which will be published in the George Mason Law Review. Shapiro explains the origin of the Privileges or Immunities Clause of the 14th Amendment and how it relates to the Due Process Clause. He describes the history of the Supreme Court's interpretation of the Privileges or Immunities Clause, and how the Reconstruction-era Court largely read it out of the Constitution in the Slaughterhouse Cases. And he reflects on the recent revival of interest in the Privileges or Immunities Clause, driven both by legal scholarship and by Justice Thomas's opinions in cases like McDonald v. Chicago. Shapiro is on Twitter at @ishapiro.

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