National emergencies, presidential power, Andrew McCabe and the 25th Amendment

The Politics Guys

Michael Baranowski

Politics, News

4.5 • 772 Ratings

🗓️ 23 February 2019

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

On this week’s episode of The Politics Guys Trey Orndorff is joined by Ken Katkin. The two get into the constitutional and legal details surrounding national emergencies. Specifically the two discuss what constitutes a national emergency and the National Emergencies Act of 1976. Further the look at the historic context of presidential power in times of emergency and the way the Supreme Court has upheld, or struck down, presidential power. After an extended discussion Trey turns to the issue of Andrew McCabe and the two discuss both the constitutional question of the 25th amendment — including historical reasoning — and the pragmatical political outcome McCabe hoped to achieve. Listener support helps make The Politics Guys possible. If you’re interested in supporting the show, go to patreon.com/politicsguysor politicsguys.com/support. Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/the-politics-guys/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Atheists, agnostics, long-haired, weirdos, short-haired weirdos, band, or
0:05.4	Kooligans.
0:05.9	I'm the government, love, the government, love, the government, love, the government,
0:10.9	love, the government, the government, the government, love.
0:13.2	Welcome to the politics, guys, a place for bipartisan, rational, and civil debate on
0:17.5	American politics and policy.
0:19.3	I'm Trey Orndorf, a political scientist at Oklahoma
0:21.9	Christian University, and I'm joined as usual by Ken Katkin, a professor of law at Chase Law School
0:28.2	in northern Kentucky. Once again, welcome to the show, Ken. Thanks, Trey. You know, it's always a lot
0:34.3	of fun when we get together because I'm always thinking about
0:37.8	all the con law stuff that we can talk about. And so I hope you're as excited as I am because I
0:46.0	think this week we have had more things that directly relate to the Constitution than we
0:53.2	have in a long, long time.
0:56.4	And as a matter of fact, I have a student, Sierra,
1:00.5	who really loves the show,
1:02.1	and she was pushing us out on iTunes and others.
1:06.3	And she said, well, you would never mention me.
1:08.1	So, Sierra, I'm mentioning you and see all those things
1:11.0	on the midterm.
1:11.5	We're going to be talking about it in today's show.
1:15.7	So, Ken, yeah, sorry.
1:17.5	I say, good luck on your midterm, Sierra.
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