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You ever wonder why they called the lame duck? Apparently it used to be an investment term.

Ian Milhizer knows why. So yeah, it's a term from the 18th century. And a lame duck

used to refer to an investor who had defaulted on their debts. And so like the idea was because

they have defaulted on their debts, their ability to remain in the market was limited and their

powers were diminished. And then that term came to be applied to politicians who were also

on the way out. Short time or syndrome? Yeah.

Ian usually writes about the Supreme Court for Vox. But lately he's been looking at the

lame duck sessions presidents get and wondering whether it's high time the United States just

do away with them. Yeah. So I mean, my beat broadly focuses on legal policy and on the

Constitution. And the US Constitution is very bizarre in how it handles transitions of

power. So two months ago, the American people went to the polls and they said fairly

and fatically, we do not want Donald Trump to be president anymore. And yet here we are

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