I'm Jeffrey Rosen, president and CEO of the National Constitution Center, and welcome to We the People, a weekly show of constitutional debate.

The National Constitution Center is the only institution in America, chartered by Congress to

disseminate information about the U.S. Constitution on a non-partisan basis.

And on today's show, we marked the 50th anniversary

of the Supreme Court's landmark ruling

in Loving versus Virginia, which was issued on June 12,

1967. In that case, the court struck down bans on interracial marriage

as violations of both the Due Process Clause and the Equal Protection Clause of

the 14th Amendment. Joining me to discuss loving and its constitutional legacy

are two of America's leading constitutional scholars.

Stephen Calabrasi is the Clayton J and Henry R. Barber

professor of law at the Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law and a R. Barber Professor of Law at the Northwestern University,

Pritzker School of Law, and a visiting scholar at Brown University.

He's a member of the Constitution Center's Coalition of Freedom Advisory Board

and is co-author of Originalism and Loving versus Virginia in the 2012 Brigham

Young University Law Review, which I want listeners to check out.

And Cheryl Cashin is Professor of law at the Georgetown University Law Center.

She is the author of the superb new book, Loving Interracial intimacy in America and The

Threat to White Supremacy, which listeners should also get as well.

Steve Cheryl thank you so much for joining.

Thank you Jeff.

Thank you for having us.

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