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Atheists, agnostics, long hair, weirdos, short hair, weirdos, vandals,

the government, the government, love, the government, the government, short head winners, Van Rolega. Welcome to the politics, guys, a place for bipartisan, rational and civil debate on American politics and policy.

I'm Trey Wendorf, a political scientist at Oklahoma Christian University.

And I'm joined by Ken Katkin, a professor of law at Chase Law School.

Ken, welcome to our supporters' exclusive midweek Constitution show.

Oh, it is great to be back.

This has been one of the most fun things I think that I have done. And I know that listeners have really loved, we have

been going through the U.S. Constitution for a long time. And we got through the initial

constitution. And now we've been going through the 27 amendments that exist to it.

And we've most recently gotten to the 14th Amendment.

And so this week, what we're going to take on, because there's a lot, there's a lot

in the 14th Amendment, Ken, but we're taking on this week the equal protection clause

of the 14th Amendment, which provides that no state shall, quote, denied

any person within its jurisdiction the equal protections of the laws."

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