'A Lot Of Gray Area': A Legal Expert Explains 'How To Read The Constitution'
Inspired by the challenges to the current presidential administration, law professor Kim Wehle has written a guide to the founding document — and its susceptibility to interpretation.
What is the president actually allowed to do under the United States Constitution?
It's a question that's comes up from time to time at NPR — and when it does, we've turned to experts like Kim Wehle, now a law professor and CBS News legal commentator. Now, she's written a book about it. It's called How to Read the Constitution — and Why.
Wehle says that all the debates around the constitutionality of various Trump administration policies inspired her to write the book. She says she originally had a contract to write a book for an academic audience, but found herself writing for laypeople.
