President Donald Trump speaks during an event in the Rose Garden at the White House to declare a national emergency in order to build a wall along the southern border, Friday, Feb. 15, 2019, in Washin

Is it a Constitutional Crisis Yet?

The Brian Lehrer Show | May 9, 2019

In the wake of the Mueller report and the president’s refusal to comply with congressional subpoenas, legal experts Jennifer Rodgers, former federal prosecutor and lecturer at Columbia Law School, and Aziz Huq, law professor at the University of Chicago, ponder, "are we in a constitutional crisis yet?"

Huq is the co-author, with Tom Ginsburg, of How to Save a Constitutional Democracy (University of Chicago Press, 2018)

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