Episode 30 | Are All Cultures Created Equal?

In this episode, hosts Kathryn Johnson and law professor Ilan Wurman take on a hard and controversial question: Are all cultures created equal? Or, more precisely, do all cultures have the same current capacity for constitutional self-government? How much migration and importation of people from foreign cultures and with foreign habits is ideal? Is it racist to even have such discussions?

Our hosts also start with other controversial topics. Does the Trump anti-weaponization fund justify…weaponization against Trump’s lawyers by referring them to bar discipline? Our hosts discuss Judge William’s ruling and how it applies to Obama’s lawyers, too, who engaged in “sue and settle” practices. They also return, once again, to birthright citizenship. Even accepting the Court’s holding in Trump v. Barbara, is there an argument that the Court’s fiction of extraterritoriality, which the majority argued explains the historic exemptions from birthright citizenship, in fact applies to some of the individuals covered by Trump’s executive order?

This is the rational — and based — conversation you won’t hear anywhere else.