Saturday, April 20th, 2024
Special Edition: Above the Law? Presidential Power in Question
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Can a former U.S. president face criminal prosecution for things they did while in office? The case the Supreme Court is taking up next week could have major ramifications for former President Donald Trump and future presidents.
Supreme Court reporter Amy Howe is breaking down the arguments on both sides. Then, president and CEO of the National Consitution Center Jeffrey Rosen explains what the Constitution does and doesn’t say about presidential immunity and why he thinks the justices will try to find a compromise.
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Guest: Amy Howe
Amy Howe is the cofounder of SCOTUSblog, a blog devoted to coverage of the U.S. Supreme Court; and her eponymous blog, Howe on the Court. Before turning to full-time blogging, she served as counsel in over two dozen merits cases at the Supreme Court and argued two cases there.
From 2004 until 2011, she co-taught Supreme Court litigation at Stanford Law School; from 2005 until 2013, she co-taught a similar class at Harvard Law School. She has also served as an adjunct professor at American University’s Washington College of Law and Vanderbilt Law School.
Amy Howe is a graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and holds a master’s degree in Arab Studies and a law degree from Georgetown University.
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Guest: Jeffrey Rosen
Jeffrey Rosen is the president and CEO of the National Constitution Center, where he hosts “We the People,” a weekly podcast of constitutional debate. He is also a professor of law at the George Washington University Law School and a contributing editor of The Atlantic.
His new book is “The Pursuit of Happiness: How Classical Writers on Virtue Inspired the Lives of the Founders and Defined America.” His other books include the New York Times bestseller “Conversations with RBG: Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg on Life, Love, Liberty, and Law,” as well as biographies of Louis Brandeis and William Howard Taft.
Jeffrey Rosen is a graduate of Harvard College; Oxford University, where he was a Marshall Scholar; and Yale Law School.
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