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Good morning again, everyone, coming up later this hour.

A call in for a group we've never singled out before for a specific call in.

We're going to have one specifically for Canadians. If you are in

or originally from Canada, how has the Trump administration so far made you feel about this

country or that country coming up in about a half hour? We're very happy to have with us now,

Boston College historian and these days a very popular newsletter

writer, Heather Cox Richardson. Her newsletter is called Letters from an American. She is also the

author of many books, including her latest Democracy Awakening Notes on the State of America,

which came out in paperback just last October, that book traces what Richardson calls Donald

Trump's authoritarian experiment back through American history. In her latest newsletter,

Richardson focuses largely on the battle for democracy taking place right now in the courts.

One judge, as you probably heard in the news, ordered Trump to stop deporting people based on the 1798

Alien Enemies Act. That's supposed to apply only to times of actual war or actual invasion by another

country. Another declared Elon Musk's shutdown of USAID, likely unconstitutional, including for

Musk's unappointed role in it. And besides the

rulings themselves, she notes Trump's argument that the judge in the deportations case should be

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