Relax your mind and let your conscience be free: The 2/19 preview

Morning, MHP family. Trust me, this EPMD classic is thematically related to something Melissa will be discussing with Katon Dawson, former chair of the South Carolina Republican Party. Once a senior adviser to Rick Perry in that state, Dawson has now endorsed Newt Gingrich for president — and is now senior advisor to Winning Our Future, the super-PAC supporting Gingrich.

Here’s who else we have in store for you today:

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• Anthea Butler, Associate Professor of Religious Studies and Graduate Chair of Religion at the University of Pennsylvania.
• Kenji Yoshino, Chief Justice Earl Warren Professor of Constitutional Law at New York University School of Law. 
• Heather Boushey, senior economist with the Center for American Progress. All of her posts for CAP are archived here.
• Serene Jones, President of the Union Theological Seminary, where Melissa studied. Read her Huffington Post archive here.