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 a nonpartisan

nonprofit chartered by Congress to increase awareness and understanding of the

Constitution among the American people.

The city of Portland has seen more than 60 days of protests since the killing of George Floyd.

The protests escalated when federal forces were deployed in Portland to protect the federal courthouse.

And on Wednesday, the governor, Cape Brown, announced that federal officials will soon be leaving the city.

On today's episode, we discuss the rapidly evolving situation in Portland, as well as exploring

the constitutional rights of the protesters and the president's power to deploy federal forces in the states.

I'm joined by two of America's leading experts on the First Amendment right of assembly and the President's

power to deploy federal forces.

Bobby Chesney holds the James Baker chair and is the associate team for Academic Affairs at the University of Texas School of Law.

He's also the Director of the University's Robert Strauss Center for International Security

in Law.

He is a co-founder and contributor to Law Fair

and co-hosts the National Security Law Podcast.

Bobby, thank you so much for joining.

Thanks for having me here.

And John Inazu is the Sally D. Danforth,

Distinguished Professor of Law and Religion at Washington University

in St. Louis, where he focuses on the First Amendment freedoms of speech, assembly, and religion.

He is the author of Liberty's Refuge, The Forgotten Freedom of Assembly.

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