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Our guest this week, Zaakir Tameez, author of the newly released Charles Sumner: Conscience of a Nation, shares his reflections on Sumner’s notorious caning and its significance for his contemporaries – and for our own.

The Times reports on Trump’s disparaging and apparent discarding of the Federalist Society.

Here, the Times reports on the Senate’s return to the filibuster’s possible demise – or at least its diminishment.

In this excerpt from Akhil’s book, The Constitution Today, he discusses the background and arguments for the so-called nuclear option, which certainly is rearing its head these days.  First of two such excerpts.