In this new podcast, Professor Amar offers weekly in-depth discussions on the most urgent and fascinating constitutional issues of our day. He is joined by host Andy Lipka and frequent guests: other top experts, including Bob Woodward, Neal Katyal, Nina Totenberg, Lawrence Lessig, Michael Gerhardt, and many more.

Season 6, Episode 3 (Show 264): A Virtuous Republic, If You Can Keep It

February 4, 2026

We’re all over the place – unitary executive, birthright citizenship, court term limits, and more.

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In a wide-ranging episode, we finish looking back – and in doing so, we look into the near future as well.  The birthright citizenship case will be heard in oral argument on April 1, and we go back to our reaction to the executive order.  Unitary executive matters are awaiting court rulings; we look back at our back and forth with Steven Calabresi.  Meanwhile, audience questions on court term limits and the virtues of virtue are addressed, and there are more tidbits to enjoy.

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Season 6, Episode 2 (Show 263): Five-Oh and Four Questions

January 28, 2026

We analyze and add to the oral argument in Wolford v. Lopez, the Hawaii gun case, and continue our retrospective.

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The look back over our five years of drama, humor, reason, and illogic continues, as perhaps the most notorious opinion of the five year period – the Trump immunity case – reappears in a clip, along with a revisit with Justice Breyer.  Meanwhile, the oral argument in Wolford v. Lopez did, in fact, prompt the Professors Amar to write in SCOTUSblog.com, and we go even further here, with clips from that oral argument and answers to the justices that didn’t find their way into the record, but now, hopefully, enter the public discourse.

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Season 6, Episode 1 (Show 262): High Fives

January 21, 2026

On the fifth anniversary of Amarica’s Constitution,  we have a bountiful look back, including luminaries and clip analysis.  Enjoy!

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It’s five years of Akhil and Andy on Amarica’s Constitution, and our friends are lining up to talk about it.  In typical fashion, it’s not just testimonials but reflections.  And we do a clip episode, but this time it’s not the justices, or the oral advocates, or the pundits, on the hot seat:  it’s us.  We look back at two episodes per year, playing our sometimes correct, sometimes wildly wrong predictions, and our sometimes prescient, sometimes widely ignored so-called insights.  It’s been quite a ride, and quite a recap – so much so that this part one of at least two. 

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Season 5, Episode 52 (Show 261): The Minnesota Massacre

January 14, 2026

ICE agents kill a mother in a gruesome, horrifying scene.  What does our constitutional system say about it?

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A powerful and aggressive central government sends unwanted forces in huge numbers to a city where the residents oppose and resent this policy.  The undertrained forces unleash violence against the population in the form of an obviously wrongful death.  Minneapolis, yes – but also a seeming repeat of an important American historic event, that shaped a nation’s core beliefs, later reflected in the Declaration and the Constitution.  We tell those stories, and look at the values and basic laws that emerged from them; bring to light important Supreme Court cases  – and bring all this to Minneapolis for examination of how they apply, 250 years later.  

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Season 5, Episode 51 (Show 260): Venezuelan Frisbie

January 7, 2026

Maduro is in custody and will be tried in US courts, it appears.  Constitutional issues?  You bet – but not necessarily the ones you think they are.

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The military capture of the Venezuelan leader, Maduro, is an event with giant international strategic, moral, economic, political, and other considerations.  It also raises fascinating constitutional questions, and Professor Amar is ready to discuss some matters that probably did not come to your mind right away.  Much of this stems from the fact that Maduro will be tried in a U.S. civilian, not a military court, so constitutional protections are implicated.  Whatever your thoughts about the policy matters, it behooves you to join us in this exploration of how this escapade reveals a strain in constitutional doctrine that remains unresolved.  Meanwhile, you will learn of cases with names like “Frisbie,” hence our title.

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Season 5, Episode 50 (Show 259): Your Questions, Easy and Hard

December 31, 2025

From presidential oaths to Calvin Coolidge, we take your questions wherever they lead.  Happy New Year!

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Our listeners have a talent for inquiry; they follow Professor Amar’s arguments every week, and come up with their own.  This week, we end the year by fielding a wide range of questions, including some related to presidential oath-taking; juries, asked by a Judge; pardons and their abuse; and many related topics.  Akhil invokes Angela Bassett and Tina Turner, as we answer the questions first softly, and then not so softly.  And we end the year with fond wishes sincerely offered. 

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