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We the People

National Constitution Center

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🗓️ 21 April 2016

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Josh Blackman of the South Texas College of Law and Cristina Rodriguez of Yale Law School review the issues and oral arguments in United States v. Texas. Get the latest constitutional news, and continue the conversation, on our Facebook page and Twitter feed. We want to know what you think of the podcast! Email us at [email protected]. Please subscribe to We the People on iTunes. While you’re in the iTunes Store, leave us a rating and review—it helps other people discover what we do. Please also subscribe to Live at America’s Town Hall, featuring conversations and debates presented at the Center, across from Independence Hall in beautiful Philadelphia. We the People is a member of Slate’s Panoply network. Check out all of our sibling podcasts at iTunes.com/Panoply. Despite our congressional charter, the National Constitution Center is a private nonprofit—we receive little government support, and we rely on the generosity of people around the country who are inspired by our nonpartisan mission of constitutional debate and education. Please consider becoming a member to support our work, including this podcast. Visit constitutioncenter.org to learn more. This show was engineered by Kevin Kilbourne and produced by Nicandro Iannacci. Research was provided by Josh Waimberg, Lana Ulrich and Danieli Evans. The host of We the People is Jeffrey Rosen.

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0:00.0	I'm Jeffrey Rosen, president and CEO of the National Constitution Center, and welcome to We The People, a weekly show of constitutional debate.
0:08.0	The National Constitution Center is the only institution in America chartered by Congress to disseminate information
0:14.7	about the U.S. Constitution on a non-partisan basis.
0:19.0	And on today's show we explore one of the most important cases of the current Supreme Court term,
0:23.5	United States versus Texas, in which Texas and 25 other states
0:27.8	are challenging the legality of President Obama's Deferred Deportation Program for some U.S. residents living in this country
0:36.4	illegally.
0:37.4	Joining me to discuss the statutory and constitutional issues in this case and to review
0:42.1	Monday's oral arguments
0:43.2	that the Supreme Court are two of America's leading experts
0:46.3	in this field.
0:47.4	Josh Blackman is an associate professor of law
0:49.7	at the South Texas College of Law.
0:51.8	Christina Rodriguez is the Leighton Homer Surbeck Professor of Law at Yale Law School.
0:57.8	Josh and Christina were here at the National Constitution Center for a superb town hall program on this case in February,
1:05.1	joined by Nick Rosenkrantz and Adam Cox, and you can watch that event at Constitution
1:09.8	Center.org or listen to it on our great companion podcast live at America's town hall.
1:15.0	Josh Christina, thank you so much for being here.
1:18.0	Thank you, Joe.
1:20.0	Thank you for having us.
1:21.0	Wonderful.
1:22.0	Before I start, I have to stress, note my exquisite diction in pronouncing the word
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