The Scholars' Circle

Scholars’ Circle – Trump’s violations of US Constitution – March 2, 2025

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Is the US in a constitutional crisis? Is the constitution itself a crisis? What are the specific actions of the Trump Administration that has led to this? How will the courts respond? And what is the unitary executive theory and how has it undermined the checks and balances of the system? [ dur: 58mins. ]

  • Heidi Kitrosser is William W. Gurley Professor of Law at Northwestern – Pritzker School of Law. She is the author of Reclaiming Accountability: Transparency, Executive Power, and the U.S. Constitution, and the articles, The Shadow of Executive Privilege and Accountability in the Deep State.
  • Sanford Levinson is W. St. John Garwood and W. St. John Garwood, Jr. Centennial Chair in Law at the University of Texas Law School. He is the author of many publications including Our Undemocratic Constitution: Where the Constitution Goes Wrong (and How We the People Can Correct It) and Framed: America’s 51 Constitutions and the Crisis of Governance and, with Cynthia Levinson, Fault Lines in the Constitution: The Framers, Their Fights, and the Flaws that Affect Us Today.

    • This program is produced by Ankine Aghassian, Doug Becker and Sudd Dongre.

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