Deportation, Due Process, And Deference To The American People

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🗓️ 17 April 2025

⏱️ 40 minutes

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On this episode of "The Federalist Radio Hour," former federal prosecutor John O'Connor joins Federalist Senior Elections Correspondent Matt Kittle to break down the showdown over the deportation of El Salvador native Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, explain whether illegal aliens have due process rights, and analyze how activist judges' enabling of "court shopping" hurts the judicial system.

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0:00.0	And we are back with another edition of the Federalist Radio Hour.
0:21.3	I'm Matt Kittle's senior elections correspondent at The Federalist and your experience
0:25.8	Sherpa on today's quest for knowledge.
0:29.0	As always, you can email the show at radio at thefederalist.com.
0:35.3	Make sure to subscribe wherever you download your podcast and, of course, to the premium
0:39.2	version of our website as well.
0:41.4	Our guest today is former federal prosecutor John O'Connor, author of Postgate,
0:46.0	how the Washington Post betrayed Deep Throat, covered up Watergate and began today's
0:51.3	partisan advocacy journalism and host of the Mysteries of Watergate podcast.
0:58.3	He served as an assistant U.S. attorney in Northern California representing the United States in both criminal and civil cases.
1:06.4	Today we're talking about the federal judges, it seems, dancing all over the executive branch.
1:12.1	Good morning, sir. Thank you for joining us on the Federalist Radio Hour.
1:17.4	Let us begin there, if you would, please, because I think what we're seeing today feels unprecedented.
1:25.6	It feels certainly like an abusive power.
1:29.0	We have seen a lot of executive orders coming out from President Donald Trump.
1:35.4	He has, that is definitely his domain.
1:39.0	I don't think there's any argument about that.
1:41.9	The argument, though, is from these federal judges who say he does not
1:47.5	have the authority, whether it be executive orders on DEI or immigration, you name it.
1:56.5	Is this a rogue judiciary we're seeing today in your estimation?
2:02.6	It's not intentionally rogue.
2:05.6	It is, society has developed an activist judiciary.
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