Andrew Weissmann: Law & Disorder

Impolitic with John Heilemann

Audacy | Puck

News, Politics

4.8 • 4.2K Ratings

🗓️ 21 March 2025

⏱️ 71 minutes

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John is joined by former federal prosecutor and FBI general counsel Andrew Weissmann to discuss Donald Trump’s escalating attacks on the judiciary and what it means for the rule of law. Weissmann explains why the showdown between the Trump administration and federal district judge James Boasberg over the deportation of some 200 alleged Venezuelan gang members last weekend amounts to the first genuine constitutional crisis of the Trump 2.0 era; Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts viewed Trump’s call for Boasberg’s impeachment as so improper that Roberts felt compelled to issue a rare public rebuke of a sitting president; and Trump’s recent speech at DOJ headquarters was even more ominous than it sounded. Andrew also reflects on why being targeted directly by Trump—who referred to him in that speech as “scum”—bothers him less than you might assume. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:08.6	Aloha and namaste everyone and welcome Tim Politics with John Heilman,
1:15.1	a puck and Odyssey Joint featuring lively in-depth conversations with the people who roam the quarters of power and influence in America,
1:22.0	weaving the warp and wharf and left of our politics and culture. Exactly two months into Trump 2.0, and we have apparently arrived at a destination that listeners of this podcast are all too aware
1:28.9	I have been foreshadowing and fretting over and even occasionally freaking out about almost from
1:34.6	day one, a straight up standoff between Donald Trump, his White House, and his Justice
1:38.8	Department with the federal judiciary in which the administration is, despite his and its assertions to the contrary,
1:46.3	perilously close to the line of flagrantly defying a court order. The case in question, as you probably
1:51.7	know, involves the deportation of roughly 200 alleged Venezuelan gang members without due process
1:57.9	and under the ostensible auspices of the Alien Enemies Act of 1798,
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