99% Invisible presents What Trump Can Teach Us About Con Law
99% Invisible
SiriusXM Podcasts and Roman Mars
4.8 • 27.5K Ratings
🗓️ 24 September 2019
⏱️ 40 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This is 99 per- this is not 99% invisible, but I am Roman Mars. |
| 0:09.7 | As I'm recording this, Donald Trump took office |
| 0:13.5 | 975 days ago and it has been |
| 0:16.9 | Exhausting independent of where you are politically |
| 0:19.3 | I think we can all agree that the new cycle coming out of Washington DC has been very intense for anyone who has been paying attention at all |
| 0:27.1 | One of the reasons for the fervor is Trump's role as a very norm-breaking president |
| 0:32.6 | If you like him, this is one of the reasons why you like him. If you hate him, this is one of the reasons why you hate him |
| 0:37.2 | But my reaction to all this was that I realized I didn't really know what all the norms and rules actually were |
| 0:43.7 | So I wanted to create for myself a constitutional law class and the syllabus would be determined by Trump's tweets |
| 0:51.1 | This is where my friend neighbor and the brains behind this operation Elizabeth Joe comes in |
| 0:56.0 | She's a professor at the UC Davis School of Law and she teaches con law 101 and since June of 2017 |
| 1:02.5 | She's been kind enough to hang out with me and teach me lessons about the US Constitution that I then record and release as the podcast |
| 1:10.0 | What Trump can teach us about con law? We call it Trump Con Law for short |
| 1:14.1 | It's had what you call a sporadic release schedule, but it's crazy popular for something that I basically do as my hobby |
| 1:20.9 | Podcast to trick Elizabeth into coming over and educating me and after a long hiatus were back with monthly episodes |
| 1:27.3 | So I wanted to reintroduce it to the 99 PI audience because you may not know about it and because |
| 1:32.6 | People often comment that the podcasts calm historically grounded educational discussion is a soothing |
| 1:39.5 | Salve amidst the chaotic and unnerving political news of the day |
| 1:44.1 | The creation of the show was very much a reaction to the Trump presidency, but it is not reactionary. I'm |
| 1:51.3 | Presenting two classic episodes of what Trump can teach us about con law here today |
| 1:55.5 | And if you're into it, I encourage you to hop over to the Trump Con law feed and download the 30 or so other episodes |
| 2:01.3 | Including a brand new one about obstruction of justice that we released last week |
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