Capitulation or Courage: The ACLU's Fight for Non-Citizens' Rights

The Oath and The Office

Corey Brettschneider

Government, News, Politics

4.9 • 591 Ratings

🗓️ 27 March 2025

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

John Fugelsang and Professor Corey Brettschneider this time hightlight the many judges that are ruling against Trump's illegal orders and policies. They also talk about the president of Columbia University and the law firm Paul, Weiss capitulatng to Trump's extortion and failing the people who depend on them. Plus, they chat about the finger pointing blame-game by the GOP over the leaked Yemeni attack plan on their Signal group chat. Then, they welcome the National Director of Policy and Government at the ACLU - Mike Zamore. They ask him about cases they are working on including Trump revoking birthright citizenship, the illegal detention of Mahmoud Kahlil, and the draconian kidnapping of Venezuelans and exiling them to El Salvador. Zamore highlights the "Hands Off" March in D.C. Sat. April 5th at the Washington Monument.

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0:00.0	Welcome once again to another edition of The Oath and the Office, the most constitutionally correct podcast you can enjoy starring.
0:17.8	Ground University Political Science Professor, author of the Oath in the Office,
0:21.3	and author of the Presidents of the People, Professor Corey Brechtnider.
0:25.4	I'm John Fuglesang.
0:26.5	It's great to be here holding our completely classified document podcast, along with everyone
0:32.2	we accidentally invited.
0:33.4	Corey, it's so good to see you.
0:35.1	Thanks so much, and I'm glad to be on a group chat with you and our guest,
0:39.2	and the rest of America will be sharing lots of secrets today.
0:43.5	You know, it's been a very, very crazy week already.
0:46.5	Florida is trying to make child labor great again.
0:49.5	Pam Bondi, who took money from Trump to stop investigating him for Trump University fraud,
0:54.9	says he's going to go after all the fraud Elon's finding and government waste,
0:58.7	none of which he can mention specifically right now.
1:01.1	I mean, there's so many stories that normally would dominate the news in any podcast about
1:06.5	abuses of the Constitution.
1:08.7	But wow, it's at the risk of everything being overshadowed, Corey,
1:13.6	by the signal, kerfuffle. We can't lose sight of the fact that we still have the federal
1:19.4	courts holding firm, and that's the main guardrail we have left. Absolutely. And, you know,
1:26.4	the challenge of this podcast, which of course is called
1:29.5	the oath in the office because the president takes an oath the first few seconds in office,
1:33.9	it's the first thing the president does required by the Constitution to preserve, protect,
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