Season 3, Episode 10 (Show 114):Torture, Time Travel, and Transformation

March 1, 2023

Listeners’ questions include the 4th amendment and torture; timeless constitutional moments; how amendments interact and change each others’ meaning.  And Akhil expands his thoughts on mootness and how Moore v. Harper still lives.

This week we take your questions; our listeners are engaged and clever, so Professor Amar is challenged again and again.  How far do his 4th and 5th amendment views extend – do they reach torture?  A fellow law professor asks a deep question about Reconstruction and Women’s suffrage which has deep implications.  And we take a trip back in time to Akhil’s most treasured constitutional moments.  Meanwhile, there’s more on Moore v. Harper and mootness.

Show Notes:

Lincoln's Last Speech, by Louis Masur - amazon.com

Professor Louis Masur of Rutgers University writes a book on “Lincoln’s Last Speech: Wartime Reconstruction and the Crisis of Reunion,” and it is a touchstone for Akhil as he discusses the importance of this speech, this event, in constitutional history.

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1776 Is Not Just What Ron DeSantis Wants It to Be - The New York Times

Professor Kermit Roosevelt III’s book, The Nation That Never Was, the subject of two recent podcasts on Amarica’s Constitution, now draws the attention of The New York Times op-ed writer, Jamelle Bouie, in this new “guest essay.”

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