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Stay Tuned with Preet

Courts Put Trump in Check (with Trevor Morrison)

Stay Tuned with Preet

Vox Media Podcast Network

Society & Culture, Politics, Government, News

4.8 • 32.3K Ratings

🗓️ 7 May 2025

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

What are the constitutional limits of executive power? On this week’s Insider episode, Preet is joined by CAFE Contributor and Dean Emeritus of NYU Law School Trevor Morrison, while Joyce is out. In an excerpt from the show, Preet and Trevor discuss the Trump administration’s ongoing resistance to court orders compelling the government to facilitate Kilmar Abrego García’s return to the U.S. after he was wrongly deported to El Salvador. Also on the Insider docket: – A judge struck down President Trump’s executive order targeting the law firm Perkins Coie; and – A court ruled the Trump administration’s use of the Alien Enemies Act to deport alleged Venezuelan gang members is unlawful. CAFE Insiders click HERE to listen to the full analysis. Not an Insider? Now more than ever, it’s critical to stay tuned. To hear from reasoned voices in unreasonable times, become an Insider today. You’ll get access to full episodes of the podcast and other exclusive content. Head to cafe.com/insider. Subscribe to our YouTube channel. This podcast is brought to you by CAFE and Vox Media Podcast Network.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hey folks, Preet Berrara here.

0:03.8

Joyce Fans is out this week, so joining me today is a special guest, my friend Trevor Morrison.

0:10.0

Trevor is a law professor and Dean Emeritus at New York University School of Law.

0:15.0

We discussed three big stories making the headlines.

0:17.0

A judge struck down President Trump's executive order targeting the law firm

0:20.9

Perkins-Cooey. A court ruled the Trump administration's use of the Alien Enemies Act to deport

0:25.4

alleged Venezuelan gang members is unlawful. And the Trump administration's ongoing resistance

0:30.4

to court orders compelling the return of Kilmar-Abrego-Garcia. If you're a cafe insider,

0:36.4

head to the insider feed or click the link in the show notes of

0:38.9

this podcast to hear the full analysis. Stay tuned, listeners, stick around for an excerpt from our

0:44.5

conversation. To hear the full discussion, become a member by heading to cafe.com slash insider.

0:51.0

Now, on to the show.

0:56.3

So as everyone knows, there's another important immigration case, if you want to call it

1:01.3

that, in the news it has galvanized a lot of people on both sides, and that is the case we

1:06.7

referenced earlier in passing, the matter of Kilmar Abrago-Garcia, who, just to remind everyone

1:13.0

very quickly, was notwithstanding an order that barred his deportation. And that was saying the

1:20.1

question of whether or not he is a member of MS-13 or not. He now sits in a notorious

1:26.5

maximum security prison in El Salvador,

1:30.6

and there's a back and forth on whether or not the administration will do something that means something to facilitate his return to the United States.

1:42.1

How does that stand?

1:43.8

So I think we're, I mean, it's incredibly troubling

1:47.3

set of developments, to put it mildly. Where we are currently, I think, is that the president has,

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