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Podcast: New Books in Law
Episode: Constitutional Crisis or a Stalemate?
Description: At the 100 day mark of Donald Trumpâs second term as president, the political scientists at Bright Line Watch released their 25th report on the state of American democracy entitled âThreats to democracy and academic freedom after Trumpâs second first 100 days.â Based on polling both experts (760 political scientists) and the public (representative sample of 2000 Americans), the Bright Line Watch researchers find that the Trump administration has challenged constitutional and democratic norms on a wide range of issues, including the scope of executive power and the authority of courts to check it, individual freedom of expression, due process and habeas corpus, imm...