Season 4, Episode 30 (Show 187): Virtuous Presidents and A Loose Cannon – guest Vikram Amar

July 23, 2024

President Biden steps down (after we recorded this) and this episode is amazingly on point, with its takes on resignations as well as a fantastic analysis of Judge Cannon’s follies by our guest, Professor Vik Amar.

CLE Credit Available for this episode from podcast.njsba.com.

Resignations are in the air, and our discussion – recorded before President Biden’s actions – offers surprising resonances in its wake.  Meanwhile, our guest, Professor Vik Amar, provides not just a condemnation of Judge Cannon’s recent dismissal of the Trump documents case, but a refutation of the arguments she made, and a recitation of those crucial points, cases, and reasonings which she ignored.  Plus we finally have the details on the EverScholar announcements we have been teasing; 18 year terms are back in the news; and more.  We will be back, possibly early this week depending on developments, with a special episode on President Biden’s withdrawal from the presidential race.

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How to get Continuing Legal Education Credit for listening!

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Putting Precedent in its Place - Akhil Reed Amar

In Professor Amar’s 2012 book, America’s Unwritten Constitution, Chapter 5 (attached here) addresses horizontal vs. vertical stare decisis and much more, oh so relevant to Judge Cannon’s actions.

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