Episode 156 | Trump DOJ Gambles with Constitutional Misconduct
It's Complicated
Renato Mariotti
4.7 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 2 February 2026
⏱️ 43 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | So Renato, is federalism going to finally be the thing that stops Trump? |
| 0:07.3 | It's complicated. |
| 0:13.0 | I'm Asha Rangappa. I teach national security law at Yale University. I'm a former FBI special |
| 0:19.0 | agent, and I'm the author of the Freedom Academy Substack. And I'm Renato Marietti. I'm a former FBI special agent, and I'm the author of The Freedom Academy |
| 0:21.7 | Substack. And I'm Renata Marietti. I'm a former federal prosecutor, a practicing lawyer, |
| 0:27.3 | and a legal analyst. And we're here to help you understand topics that can be boiled down |
| 0:32.1 | into a soundbite or a skeet. Well, we're back in court. Yeah. a skate. |
| 0:39.5 | Well, we're back in court, |
| 0:45.5 | you know, which we've been doing now for a year, |
| 0:51.7 | but in the context of what is happening in Minnesota. |
| 0:54.0 | That's right. And I mean, it's really been a remarkable week or so, Asha, since you and I spoke last, |
| 1:03.0 | because I will say, you know, beyond the law, there's really been some true movement on the, you know, political front against Trump in the wake of |
| 1:15.9 | an apparent murder that is so impossible to justify that Trump and his own team is struggling |
| 1:26.2 | to find ways |
| 1:28.3 | to justify it or talk around it or mislead us about what had happened. |
| 1:35.3 | Yeah, to use a phrase that sometimes comes up in the legal world, |
| 1:39.3 | I would call it shocking to the conscience. |
| 1:43.3 | And we can talk a little bit later about I would call it shocking to the conscience. |
| 2:05.1 | And, you know, we can talk a little bit later about, you know, how much the kind of not being able to manage the PR fallout from that is affecting the Trump administration because they did remove Bovino from directing the operations and now have Tom Homan there. I don't know that that's going to practically |
| 2:11.1 | change anything. I think there was a lot of, you know, some of the headlines were like, oh, |
| 2:16.5 | they're going to, you know, get out or they're going to try to, I guess, comply with the law. |
| 2:21.5 | And that does not seem to me what is happening. And in fact, I think the statements that Tom Homan has made kind of leads into some of the issues that we're going to talk about with regard to the |
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