Many of us are not yet feeling the heat from the dramatic policy changes coming out of the new federal administration - life goes on. But some of us are getting hurt. And some of us are afraid. Because so many of these federal policies are being promulgated by executive order, without Congress and sometimes in defiance of the courts, some observers are concerned that our country is experiencing a constitutional crisis. It is certainly a moment of disruption. How serious is it? Who might be next? How is this moment outside the norm? How worried should we be?
Special Guests:
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Samuel R. Bagenstos, Frank G. Millard Professor of Law at the University of Michigan. Read his interview for this article in The New Yorker: Why “Constitutional Crisis” Fails to Capture Trump’s Attack on the Rule of Law | The New Yorker.
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Ryan Dennett, Program Director, Maine Organic Farmers and Gardeners Association
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Lauren McCauley, Editor, Maine Morning Star
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Amy Wisehart, President, Maine Library Association
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