Melissa Murray: Reclaim the Constitution
The Bulwark Podcast
The Bulwark
4.6 • 11.6K Ratings
🗓️ 5 May 2026
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
Our Constitution is about limited government and restraining the power of the state, but we've got a president asserting powers he lawfully doesn't have, a Supreme Court that largely helps him do so, and a Republican Congress that's just dozing through it all. Americans need a refresher on how our government is supposed to work under the Constitution. Plus, the mifepristone case has brought abortion politics roaring back in time for the midterms, Trump is creating his own libel rules and circumventing press freedoms, and no, SCOTUS, the 14th and 15th Amendments were not designed to be colorblind on the matter of voting rights.
Melissa Murray joins Tim Miller.
show notes
- Melissa's new annotated guide to the Constitution
- Melissa's "Strict Scrutiny" podcast
- The NYT on the Supreme Court's shadow docket
- Tickets for our Bulwark Live shows in San Diego on 5/20 and in LA on 5/21: TheBulwark.com/Events
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, welcome to the Bullard podcast. I'm your host to Miller, Dled. Welcome back to the show, professor at NYU Law School, co-host of the strict scrutiny podcast, an author of a new explainer on |
| 0:23.3 | the Constitution, the U.S. Constitution, a comprehensive and annotated guide for the modern reader. |
| 0:27.3 | It is out today. She is holding it. It has a salt rimmed edge. |
| 0:34.5 | It's the best margarita you'll ever read. |
| 0:37.8 | Happy Cinco de Mayo. |
| 0:39.5 | Do some light constitution reading. |
| 0:41.1 | I also just found out in the green room, you somehow have a child going to college, which |
| 0:45.3 | feels impossible. |
| 0:46.4 | You look amazing. |
| 0:47.4 | How is that possible? |
| 0:48.1 | Tim, thank you. |
| 0:49.4 | Yes, Melissa Murray has a college-age child. |
| 0:52.5 | Melissa Murray is in her fifth decade. |
| 0:55.7 | Wow. |
| 0:56.2 | But you know what keeps me looking so young? |
| 0:58.3 | Keeps me looking younger than some members of this administration? |
| 1:01.7 | What's that? |
| 1:02.3 | I can read the Constitution. |
| 1:03.9 | And I do. |
| 1:04.8 | And that's, that's, you want to turn about the clock. |
| 1:07.8 | Moisturizing and the truth. |
| 1:09.2 | It's the real originalism. |
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