The New York Times has reported (Aug. 14, 2017) that many of the nation's law professors are revising their constitutional law courses to reflect current events as impacted by President Trump. Seven months in office, Trump's presidency has raised a number of tricky constitutional issues, from the more obvious ones of self-pardons to the more esoteric ones of understanding the Emoluments Clause and the 25th Amendment. Many of us at the bar studied law before Nixon's threatened impeachment or Clinton's impeachment but acquittal, and we may need refreshers on the intricacies of Article II Section 4. However, we do recall, unlike the president, that the Constitution has only seven articles. When constitutional law classes resume in the fall, would that New Jersey lawyers of a certain age could be flies upon the classroom walls of our august constitutional law professors, or at least that we could audit.

The New York Times has reported (Aug. 14, 2017) that many of the nation's law professors are revising their constitutional law courses to reflect current events as impacted by President Trump. Seven months in office, Trump's presidency has raised a number of tricky constitutional issues, from the more obvious ones of self-pardons to the more esoteric ones of understanding the Emoluments Clause and the 25th Amendment. Many of us at the bar studied law before Nixon's threatened impeachment or Clinton's impeachment but acquittal, and we may need refreshers on the intricacies of Article II Section 4. However, we do recall, unlike the president, that the Constitution has only seven articles. When constitutional law classes resume in the fall, would that New Jersey lawyers of a certain age could be flies upon the classroom walls of our august constitutional law professors, or at least that we could audit.