Welcome to Talking Fed's one-on-one, deep-dive discussions with national figures about the most fascinating

and consequential issues defining our culture and shaping our lives. I'm your host, Harry Littman. Today we're going to be discussing

an important new book, Hot Off the Presses, from one of the nation's most eminent and interesting

Supreme Court scholars and a good friend. Melissa Murray is the Frederick I and Grace Stokes

Professor of Law at New York University.

She's probably better known to Talking Fed's listeners as co-host of the great strict scrutiny,

the nation's leading podcast on the Supreme Court, which she co-hosts with Kate Shaw and

Leah Littman. And now she has just produced really a

prodigious work. Thank you for displaying it, Melissa. The U.S. Constitution, a comprehensive

and annotated guide for the modern reader. That's us, I think.

You are the most modern readers. Yes,

talking feds. There you have it. It sounds a little bit like Gilbert and Sullivan, and that is us.

Melissa, thanks so much for being here, and congratulations on a really prodigious achievement. Thank you. Thanks for doing this.

I know that you're feeling a little bit under the weather. I am prepared to do all of the heavy

lifting and most of the talking here for you, Harry. Don't worry. That's very kind. And I'm thinking

the Fedheads will probably prefer that. But there are things that I really wanted to talk to you

about as I went

through the book, so I'll do my best, but sorry about my hoarseness. All right, I want to first

obviously talk about the book, but then move into how you see the Supreme Court's latest

interpretations, internal dramas, and the like. But the book, as advertised,

can we see that again, please? Is, really is, a thorough explanation of the entire Constitution

and how it shapes our government. We've had from previous generations, annotated constitutions.

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