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.

Episode 1: Inauguration: Bullets Dodged

January 20, 2021

Introducing “Amarica’s Constitution;” Electoral pitfalls in the Constitution and the election of 2020 – Part I.

It didn’t feel smooth, but believe it or not, many things that might have gone wrong in the recent election – didn’t.  For example, what happens if a candidate dies on or about Election Day? Akhil and Andy discuss how issues of election timing, the electoral college, the Greeley Precedent, presidential succession, the 12th and 25th Amendments, and partisan politics make for a witches’ brew that is denying Professor Amar his beauty sleep.

Show Notes:

Congressional Testimony, February 2, 1994

Formal statement and q&a before the United States Senate, Subcommittee on the Constitution, Committee on the Judiciary; hearing on “Presidential Succession Between the Presidential Election and the Inauguration.”

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Presidents, Vice Presidents, and Death: Closing the Constitution's Succession Gap

“Presidents, Vice Presidents, and Death: Closing the Constitution’s Succession Gap,” 48 Ark. L. Rev. 215 (essay for Symposium on the Law of the Presidency; based on testimony presented to U.S. Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution)

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This is One Terrorist Threat We Can Thwart Now

“This is One Terrorist Threat We Can Thwart Now,” Washington Post, Nov. 11, 2001.

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After the Veep, Redraw the Line

“After the Veep, Redraw the Line,” Washington Post, September 14, 2003

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