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Talking Feds
Harry Litman
4.8 • 4.1K Ratings
🗓️ 21 April 2025
⏱️ 63 minutes
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The stage seems just about set for us to get the answer from the Supreme Court whether it will permit the judiciary to get rolled by an administration looking to use the label "foreign policy" to avoid all accountability. Elsewhere, the administration’s campaign to take control of large civil institutions hit a roadblock with a pushback from Harvard. Jon Alter, Susan Glasser, and Katie Phang join Harry to take stock of how far from the private precipice we are and our prospects for going over.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everyone, Harry here. Before we dive into today's episode, I've got some exciting news about an |
| 0:06.5 | upcoming event in our Talking San Diego series. On Tuesday, April 22nd, probably tomorrow as you're |
| 0:14.5 | listening to it, will be welcoming the one and only Rick Wilson, co-founder and leading voice of the Lincoln Project. A former |
| 0:23.8 | Republican strategist, Rick was early to recognize the threat Donald Trump posed, and for the past |
| 0:30.3 | nine years, he's worked indefatigably to expose those dangers to the American public, most |
| 0:37.1 | memorably through a series of sharp, |
| 0:39.7 | hilarious, and withering political ads that cut Trump down to size. No one breaks down |
| 0:46.1 | Trump's appeal with more clarity or sophistication, and no one thinks more creatively about |
| 0:52.1 | how to mount an effective political opposition. Expect a |
| 0:56.1 | conversation filled with candor, insight, humor, and real hope that these dark days can and |
| 1:03.1 | will pass if we play it smart. For tickets and more information on this and all talking San Diego |
| 1:10.3 | events, including our newly announced |
| 1:13.2 | conversation with Senator Cory Booker next month, visit TalkingSandiego.net. |
| 1:24.5 | Welcome to Talking Fed's, a roundtable that brings together prominent former federal officials and special guests for dynamic discussion of the most important political and legal topics of the day. |
| 1:39.6 | I'm Harry Littman. Donald Trump's assault on important civil institutions as well as on the Constitution's |
| 1:48.5 | bedrock principle of separation of powers approached a crescendo this week. The era of strategic |
| 1:56.5 | evasion may be nearing its end and we're about to see whether the administration will, in fact, |
| 2:03.2 | obey the lawful orders of the judicial branch. |
| 2:07.0 | The legal battles are playing out in cases brought under the Alien Enemies Act. |
| 2:11.4 | An 18th century relic, the administration is now brandishing as its legal sword to whisk hundreds of alleged transnational |
| 2:20.6 | drug operatives from U.S. soil into a notorious torture pit in El Salvador. At least two courts are now |
| 2:29.1 | circling in. They're pressing the administration hard, demanding clarity on what's already been done and what it intends to do about the deportations. |
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