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135. The Trump Reckoning Reaches the Court
How the justices navigate the six pending emergency applications from the Trump administration will tell us a lot about how much (or how little) the…
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Bonus 134: What Executive Orders Can (and Can't) Do
President Trump's ominous new executive order on election administration is constrained by the limits on what an executive order can directly…
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134. The Attempted Assassination of Justice Field
The too-strange-for-fiction story of how Justice Stephen Field was almost assassinated in 1889 and the important Supreme Court presidential power…
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First One: March 23, 2025
A weekly sneak-peek audio companion to the "One First" newsletter
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Bonus 133: Due Process and the Rule of Law
Too many Americans don't understand, at a basic level, *why* the Constitution requires due process when the government deprives anyone of their life…
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133. Birthright Citizenship (Sort of) Reaches the Court
The Trump administration's emergency applications in three birthright citizenship cases are a cynical effort to mitigate the effects of an inevitable…
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First One: March 16, 2025
A weekly sneak-peek audio companion to the "One First" newsletter
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