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Strict ScrutinyDeportations and the Death of Due ProcessAfter a deep dive on the Trump administration’s horrifying misuse of the Alien Enemies Act to deport people from the US without due process, Kate and Leah preview upcoming SCOTUS cases about the Voting Rights Act and the Environmental Protection Agency. Along the way, they also touch on the Trump administration’s targeting of certain law firms and its continued attacks on DEI. Hosts’ favorite things this week: Leah: Fight! Fight! Fight!, Rebecca Traister; AOC’s Bluesky feed during the CR debates/debacle; The Hidden Motive Behind Trump’s Attacks on Trans People, M. Gessen; This Electio...2025-03-241h 25
THE NORTHERN PODCAST (NAS STUDIO)Deportations and the Death of Due ProcessAfter a deep dive on the Trump administration’s horrifying misuse of the Alien Enemies Act to deport people from the US without due process, Kate and Leah preview upcoming SCOTUS cases about the Voting Rights Act and the Environmental Protection Agency. Along the way, they also touch on the Trump administration’s targeting of certain law firms and its continued attacks on DEI. Hosts’ favorite things this week: Leah: Fight! Fight! Fight!, Rebecca Traister; AOC’s Bluesky feed during the CR debates/debacle; The Hidden Motive Behind Trump’s Attacks on Trans People, M. Gessen; This Election Will Be a Crucial Te...2025-03-241h 26
Conversations from Harvard Law SchoolEp. 5: Federal Authority Without Judicial SupremacyDuring a February 2023 lecture at Harvard Law School, Professor Daphna Renan, a scholar of presidential power and administrative governance, argued that the judiciary should not always have the final word on the Constitution. Instead, Renan believes the U.S. should move toward a more political constitutionalism, which would wrest some of the power from the Supreme Court and share it with democratically elected bodies like Congress.2024-07-2934 min
Gray MattersSCOTUS Preview Part 2 with Josh Chafetz and Noah RosenblumAdam White and Jace Lington talk with Josh Chafetz and Noah Rosenblum about some of the big administrative law cases pending before the U.S. Supreme Court. They discuss the state of the Court, where things might be headed next, and problems with conservative critiques of the Administrative State.Notes:Noah Rosenblum, What We Talk About When We Talk About the Rule of Law in the Administrative State, New York University Journal of Law & Liberty, Vol. 16, No. 3 (2023)Josh Chafetz, The New Judicial Power Grab, St. Louis University Law Journal, Vol. 67 (2023)CFPB v. CFAS, Brief of...2023-10-1857 min
Reasonably SpeakingThe U.S. Presidency: Looking ForwardJoin us for this episode of Reasonably Speaking where top scholars in U.S. presidency and political science discuss the the history of the U.S. presidency and its future "post–Trump." Moderated by: ALI President David F. LeviPanel:Jack Landman Goldsmith, Harvard Law SchoolDavid M. Kennedy, Stanford UniversityTerry M. Moe, Stanford UniversityDaphna Renan, Harvard Law School
2021-01-141h 14
Oral ArgumentEpisode 140: DeciderIf the president does it, is it automatically legal? Of course not, but why not? How is the president constrained by law? Daphna Renan joins us to talk about the structures within the Executive Branch and the attitudes toward them that define what the legal constraints presidents create for themselves. From the post-Watergate efforts to create independent and legalistic sources of Marbury-like trumps on presidential prerogative to today’s chaos, Daphna explores the many design choices between formality and informality, centralization and diffusion, and independence and control. Also the normal nonsense.
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