Clive Stafford Smith, the civil rights lawyer and Gresham College speaker, surveys the US Constitution's track record through its worst and most consequential Supreme Court decisions. He walks from Dred Scott in 1857 through Plessy v Ferguson, Buck v Bell's eugenics ruling, and Korematsu's internment case, tracing a line to Guantanamo. He discusses Bowers v Hardwick, the sodomy case he fought personally, and its reversal in Lawrence v Texas, before turning to the current court: presidential immunity, a 6-3 ruling striking down Trump's tariffs, and a contrast between Chief Justice Roberts and Clarence Thomas. Later sections cover death penalty cases involving mental disability, First Amendment disputes over conversion therapy and street preaching, and the Louisiana v Calais gerrymandering case. He closes arguing the Constitution is holding up under Trump, unlike Britain's unwritten protections. Recorded June 2026 at Gresham College.