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WSJ Opinion: Potomac Watch

Donald Trump Takes On the Conservative Judiciary

WSJ Opinion: Potomac Watch

The Wall Street Journal

Society & Culture, News

42.7K Ratings

🗓️ 2 June 2025

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Paul Gigot talks to law professor John Yoo about Donald Trump's attack on the Federalist Society and Leonard Leo, what's motivating the President, and what it means for the President's second-term judicial nominations. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Americans love using their credit cards, the most secure and hassle-free way to pay.

0:04.0

But DC politicians want to change that with the Durban Marshall Credit Card Bill.

0:08.0

This bill lets corporate megastores pick how your credit card is processed,

0:13.0

allowing them to use untested payment networks that jeopardize your data security and rewards.

0:18.0

Corporate megastores will make more money and you pay the price.

0:22.0

Tell Congress to guard your card because Americans lose when politicians choose. Learn more at

0:28.0

guard your card.com. From the opinion pages of the Wall Street Journal, this is Potomac Watch.

0:38.7

President Trump's second term is turning out to be different from his first in many respects.

0:44.9

The latest example is his blast last week against the judges and the judicial nominating

0:51.8

allies he had in his first term. So why is he turning against his old

0:56.9

friends at the Federalist Society? And what does this battle mean for the next four years about

1:03.4

the president's judicial picks and the future of the conservative legal movement? That's our subject

1:09.4

on Potomac Watch for today. I'm Paul as you go,

1:12.5

editor of the opinion pages at the Wall Street Journal. And today I'm joined again by John

1:17.9

you, my old friend, a law professor at Berkeley, and a pillar of the conservative bar,

1:23.8

a veteran of the George W. Bush Justice Department author of many books, including Defender

1:29.5

and Chief Donald Trump's Fight for Presidential Power. So good to see you again, John. Thanks for coming in.

1:36.5

Great to see it, too, Paul. You left out the most important thing. I was an intern in the Wall Street

1:40.8

Journal of Washington Bureau, along with a long, long train of other noteworthy and great people.

1:47.3

That's true.

1:48.0

And I probably scared you away from journalism, so you went into the law and you made a good career choice.

1:55.0

I don't understand how you journalists handle the kind of poverty you live in.

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