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What Roman Mars Can Learn About Con Law

What Roman Mars Can Learn About Con Law

Roman Mars

Professor Elizabeth Joh teaches Intro to Constitutional Law and most of the time this is a pretty straight forward job. But when Trump came into office, everything changed. During the four years of the Trump presidency, Professor Joh would check Twitter five minutes before each class to find out what the 45th President had said and how it jibes with 200 years of the judicial branch interpreting and ruling on the Constitution. Acclaimed podcaster Roman Mars (99% Invisible) was so anxious about all the norms and laws being tested in the Trump era that he asked his neighbor, Elizabeth, to explain what was going on in the world from a Constitutional law perspective. Even after Trump left office, there is still so much for Roman to learn. What Roman Mars Can Learn About Con Law is a weekly, fun, casual Con Law 101 class that uses the tumultuous activities of the executive, legislative, and judicial branches to teach us all about the US Constitution. All music for the show comes from Doomtree, an independent hip-hop collective and record label based in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
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What Roman Mars Can Learn About Con Law - Weddings, Websites, and Forced Speech

Weddings, Websites, and Forced Speech

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02/10/23 • 34 min

It’s been established law that it is wrong for businesses to discriminate against customers because of their race or ethnic background, but what if a business owner refuses to serve someone because of their sexual orientation? And what if that business owner asserts that serving a gay customer violates their first amendment rights?

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What Roman Mars Can Learn About Con Law - Whose Speech, Whose Campus

Whose Speech, Whose Campus

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09/10/24 • 31 min

As students go back to school, colleges and universities across the country are preparing for the continuation of protests against the Israel-Hamas war—and claims by other students that the protests are violating their own civil rights. Institutions and courts are now weighing the question: whose free speech matters more?

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What Roman Mars Can Learn About Con Law - After Dobbs

After Dobbs

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06/29/22 • 41 min

The Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization decision has overturned Roe v. Wade and revoked the right to abortion, a Constitutionally guaranteed right we have had for about 50 years. What happens now?

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What Roman Mars Can Learn About Con Law - Farfetched Arguments

Farfetched Arguments

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07/30/24 • 26 min

After an unprecedented several weeks in politics, some on the right are advancing far-fetched arguments to challenge Vice President Kamala Harris’ presidential campaign, and a federal judge in Florida threw out the classified documents case against former President Donald Trump.

Neither of these are based on established constitutional precedent.

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What Roman Mars Can Learn About Con Law - Deepfakes and Lying Liars

Deepfakes and Lying Liars

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09/24/24 • 31 min

Election deepfakes have the potential to change people's opinions about a presidential election in ways that can be harmful to democracy and the truth itself. But what does the Constitution say about regulating these manipulated images? One place to look: Hustler Magazine.

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What Roman Mars Can Learn About Con Law - Fishy Deep State

Fishy Deep State

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08/27/24 • 32 min

What’s the connection between former President Donald Trump's attacks on the so-called “Deep State" and a tiny silvery fish? The Supreme Court, of course.

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What Roman Mars Can Learn About Con Law - Cruel and Unusual

Cruel and Unusual

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08/14/24 • 34 min

In 1960, a man named Lawrence Robinson was sentenced to 90 days in jail for violating a California law that made it illegal to be addicted to narcotics. This summer, California Governor Gavin Newsom issued an executive order telling agencies to clear “dangerous” homeless encampments on state land. What links these two situations? The Eighth Amendment.

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What Roman Mars Can Learn About Con Law - The Mar-a-Lago Warrant

The Mar-a-Lago Warrant

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09/10/22 • 36 min

The official court order that permitted the search of Mar-a-Lago was made public, and even though much of it was redacted, there is a lot of information about what the government was looking for and which crimes the DOJ are investigating .

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What Roman Mars Can Learn About Con Law - Law-Free Zone

Law-Free Zone

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07/16/24 • 37 min

The concept of presidential immunity is not explicitly stated anywhere in the Constitution. That hasn’t stopped the Supreme Court from essentially creating what Justice Sonia Sotomayor called "a law-free zone around the President."

What does this mean for the criminal cases against former President Trump? And what are the implications for the office of the presidency?

Note: this episode was recorded before the assassination attempt on President Trump.

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What Roman Mars Can Learn About Con Law - Faithless Electors and Wrong Winners

Faithless Electors and Wrong Winners

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10/08/24 • 32 min

The United States has a strange way of electing presidents.

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How many episodes does What Roman Mars Can Learn About Con Law have?

What Roman Mars Can Learn About Con Law currently has 89 episodes available.

What topics does What Roman Mars Can Learn About Con Law cover?

The podcast is about Podcasts and Government.

What is the most popular episode on What Roman Mars Can Learn About Con Law?

The episode title 'Weddings, Websites, and Forced Speech' is the most popular.

What is the average episode length on What Roman Mars Can Learn About Con Law?

The average episode length on What Roman Mars Can Learn About Con Law is 27 minutes.

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Episodes of What Roman Mars Can Learn About Con Law are typically released every 26 days, 20 hours.

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The first episode of What Roman Mars Can Learn About Con Law was released on Jun 8, 2017.

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