5-4 x Know Your Enemy: Trump 2.0 and the Courts

5-4

Prologue Projects

News Commentary, News, Government

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🗓️ 14 January 2025

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

Peter and Michael join the hosts of the podcast "Know Your Enemy" to discuss how Trump is likely to reshape the federal judiciary during his second term. They talk about some of Trump's judicial appointees as well as outgoing President Biden's successes and failures in the courts.

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5-4 is presented by Prologue Projects. This episode was produced by Dustin DeSoto. Leon Neyfakh and Andrew Parsons provide editorial support. Our researcher is Jonathan DeBruin, and our website was designed by Peter Murphy. Our artwork is by Teddy Blanks at Chips NY, and our theme song is by Spatial Relations.

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0:00.0	Welcome to 5 to 4, where we dissect and analyze the Supreme Court cases that have annexed our civil rights, like Trump's going to annex Greenland.
0:13.6	Yes.
0:14.4	Peter, I'm here with Michael.
0:16.2	Hey, everybody.
0:17.9	The Greenland thing is insane.
0:19.7	It's incredible.
0:24.8	I love it. I like that we had a really long debate, especially in like scholarly circles over like how much of a fascist is Trump?
0:31.4	Yeah. Because he's never like, he's never shown these grand imperial ambitions. And now he's just
0:37.4	like, what are the weakest countries
0:39.4	nearby? Yeah, let's retake the Panama Canal. That's ours. Yeah. Greenland, let's just buy it.
0:46.7	I do think if you don't want him to buy Greenland or take it over or whatever, somebody should inform him that it's only 60,000 people and they're all Inuit.
0:58.6	Right.
0:58.8	They're all.
0:59.6	Like, it is 90% brown.
1:03.4	He needs to watch that one scene from Mighty Ducks where the Iceland chick is like, no, Greenland is ice and Iceland is very nice.
1:12.1	He's got it backwards.
1:19.9	I do think it would help our country to have two senators from a place that is 60,000 people all Inuit. That would be cool. That's true, but they're not going to get senators, let's be
1:24.6	honest. No, the best case scenarios end up like Puerto Rico.
1:28.9	And then Panama Canal, I like the way that they talk about the Panama Canal because it's very American Euro way of talking about places where they're like, we built the canal.
1:38.8	And by that they mean like we ordered people basically at gunpoint to build it for us.
1:44.1	That's what they mean when they say we built it.
1:46.1	Yes.
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