I am so confused. I have never seen so many important national even world issues debated over their

constitutional merit like the Constitution is like starting to be in

the news like take the Texas border fed versus the states

take Colorado does the state have the right to decide who's on the national

presidential ballot and on on COVID was it constitutional to close down all the businesses.

Might have been the correct decision, but I'm just curious.

Does it get in the way of our ability to have life, liberty, and property unless due process shuts us down.

So I asked a world famous constitutional expert.

He's the author of the book The Odd Clauses about many of the oddest clauses in the Constitution.

He's a professor of Boston University teaching constitutional law.

Jay Wexler, I get to ask him questions and he tells me which of these recent events were

constitutional and which might not have been so here it is.

This isn't your average business podcast and he's not your average host.

This is the James Alt your show. So Jay, I have a bunch of questions about the Constitution as related to current events because I feel like more than I've ever seen in the past 24 years, 25 years, I'm thinking like Gore Bush that election.

I haven't seen so many constitutional battles like on the front page of the news,

as I am these past few weeks and few years.

Yeah, I think that's probably right.

I mean, it's a combination of a president who doesn't follow any of the former

president who doesn't follow norms and so it gives rise to these issues that you know constitutional law

professors for example have been like thinking about but never thought would

actually occur and that and so it's a combination of that, I think, plus a new Supreme Court that is

willing to change its view on lots of things.

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