Welcome to Talking Fed's One-on-One,

deep-dive discussions with national figures about the most fascinating and consequential issues

defining our culture and shaping our lives. I'm your host, Harry Littman. Welcome to another talking

feds one-on-one. With the important exception of the pardons of the January 6 offenders, almost

every action that Trump has undertaken in his first few days in office has come by way of

executive order. That makes it paramount to understand the general

legal contours governing what can and can't be done by executive order, as well as how that law

applies to some of the more prominent Trump orders. For that sort of legal question, my go-to source

always is Steve Vladic, Steve, who now, this year,

its first year at Georgetown, as the Agnes Williams-Sexecennial professor of federal courts,

also the Supreme Court analyst for CNN and co-host of the National Security Law podcast,

as well as an active appellate advocate,

including at the High Court. His book, The Shadow Docket, was a New York Times bestseller,

and we covered it previously. I personally get my news in a wide array of sources,

but I'm a paid subscriber to fewer than a handful of substacks.

One of those is Steve's entitled One First, which I highly recommend and has all kinds of

information, not simply about the Supreme Court, but as we're going to find out, his entry today

goes more broadly and talks about the Department of Justice.

Agnes Williams-Septennial Professor of Federal Court, Steve Loddick.

Thank you, as always, for joining.

Thanks for having me, Harry.

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