Plead the Fifth! Due Process, Double Jeopardy and the Fifth Amendment

This week, we take a look at the Fifth and Eighth Amendments to the US Constitution and ask: what is due process? What does double jeopardy mean? And when do your Fifth Amendment rights apply? Come and nerd out about due process: your biggest protections from the federal government!

00:00:30 What is the Bill of Rights

00:01:17 Civil Liberties and what is Due Process

00:01:41 The Fifth Amendment

00:02:46 What does due process require

00:03:00 What are grand juries?

00:04:00 What is double jeopardy?

00:05:30 What is the burden of proof?

00:05:51 What does it mean to “plead the Fifth”?

00:07:00 When does custodial interrogation start? 

00:07:30 AI data centers and the future of eminent domain

00:08:30 What does the Eighth Amendment say?

00:09:41 To spot legal inequality look at how different groups are treated differently (see also: the Epstein Files)

00:12:00 Thank you!