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This is the New Yorker Radio Hour. I'm David Remnick. The big question of this Trump administration over and over again has been this. Can they really do that?

Can they reinterpret the 14th Amendment?

Can they ignore district court rulings,

dismantle the education department,

revoke Rosie O'Donald's citizenship?

All of us have questions about the administration

and its legal challenges

and how the courts are ruling on them.

So to answer your questions, the New Yorkers legal experts will join us here on the program, constitutional scholar

Jeannie Suk Gerson and columnist Ruth Marcus. Please send us your questions about Trump and the courts

to New Yorker Radio at WNYC.org.

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reckoning with racial violence that led to some of the biggest protests in our history, and there

was also one of the most contentious presidential election races in our time. So some might prefer to

forget that period, and yet it turns out to be bottomless material for a filmmaker named Ari Aster.

In the horror movies Hereditary and Midsamar and the more iconoclastic Bo is Afraid,

Aster is relentless about putting his characters and his audience in a state of anxiety.

Cringe doesn't begin to describe it. Esther's latest film is Eddington, which is set in a state of anxiety. Cringe doesn't begin to describe it. Esther's latest film is Eddington,

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