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🗓️ 10 April 2025
⏱️ 30 minutes
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On this episode, The Washington Post's Libby Casey, Rhonda Colvin and James Hohmann break down President Trump's apparent strategy of pushing norms and testing the U.S. court system to see how far he can push his policies. The crew looks at how Trump has approached firing federal workers and immigration, and how the court system has handled legal challenges on both policy fronts.
Plus, has the Supreme Court largely given his policies a pass, or is it reigning him in?
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0:00.0 | Look what happened. Is this crazy? We stand on the verge of the four greatest years in the history. |
0:08.5 | Make America great victory. How can you be against them? |
0:17.1 | Are the American courts backing President Trump's decisions or halting them? |
0:22.1 | Is the Supreme Court handing the White House wins or slowing it down? |
0:25.9 | There is so much at stake right now that's going through the courts, |
0:28.9 | from the mass firings of federal workers, to deporting and imprisoning immigrants, |
0:33.7 | to firing inspectors general. |
0:35.7 | Today on Sibar, we're diving into the role of the courts, |
0:38.9 | and if they're likely to hold up or green light Trump's goals. I'm Libby Casey in our Washington |
0:44.5 | Post studio with my colleagues, Rhonda Colvin, who's a senior political journalist and James |
0:48.8 | Holman, columnist, and editorial writer. Well, we already have some basic answers to the questions I just asked. |
0:55.8 | But before we even dive into the cases and how the courts are weighing in, I want to get your |
1:02.2 | sense, James, of the Trump strategy, because it really does seem like there's a, you know, |
1:07.6 | do things, don't ask permission, Don't even ask for forgiveness later. |
1:11.6 | Act like you got the yes answer and just plow forward. What's the philosophy of this Trump |
1:17.2 | like Trump 47, right? Not even Trump 45. Very different. I remember if it were called sidebar |
1:23.0 | because this Vodcast started around Trump's trials and he came out of those really not, at least |
1:30.6 | criminally held accountable or responsible in any way, even though he was found guilty. |
1:35.9 | And the Supreme Court's immunity decision last July really emboldened him and made him feel |
1:43.1 | like he can get away with an awful lot. |
1:45.3 | And he is not surrounded by the kind of constraints, the sorts of adults in the room that were |
1:51.8 | there in the first term. And so right now there is a desire. It's Trump himself, but it's also |
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