Hello and welcome to Background Briefing, available 24-7 at Background Briefing.org. I'm Ian Masters,

and today to examine a number of stories and issues in the news.

We'll begin with what appears to be naked partisanship on the part of the right-wing majority on the Supreme Court,

who are delaying the January 6th insurrection case by entertaining Trump's bogus immunity case

that legal experts argue has no basis in the Constitution, which the lower courts practically laughed

out of court. Joining us is Caroline Fredrickson, a visiting professor of Georgetown Law School,

and a strategic counselor on democracy and power at the Open Markets Institute. She served

as the director of the ACLU's Washington Legislative Office and during the Clinton administration,

a special assistant to the President for Legislative Affairs. In 2021, she was appointed a member

of the President's Commission on the Supreme Court of the United States and is the President

Emerita of the American Constitution Society. Her books include The Democracy Fix, How to Win the Fight for Fair

Rules, Fair Courts, and Fair Elections. Then we'll look into the history of Supreme Courts

that have served the political interests of some of our worst presidents going back to John Adams

and how citizens fought back, as the American majority should do today,

to prevent a lawless president sanctified by a lawless Supreme Court,

from turning the United States into a dictatorship.

Joining us is Corey Brechtnyder, a professor of political science at Brown University,

where he teaches constitutional law and politics, as well as a visiting professor of law at at Brown University, where he teaches constitutional law and

politics, as well as a visiting professor of law at Fordham Law School. He is the author of

the oath in the office, a guide to the Constitution for future presidents, and decisions and

dissents of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, a selection. His forthcoming book out in July is The Presidents and the People,

five leaders who threaten democracy and the citizens who fought to defend it. Then finally,

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