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

and today we'll look into a number of stories and issues in the news.

We'll begin with today's deadline since extended for federal civil service employees to accept the Musk-Trump buyout offer and discuss the likelihood, given the appalling nature of Trump's

choices to the top positions in his administration that the loyalists he planned to replace

government workers with

will be bottom feeders like the low-lifes who stormed the capital on January 6th.

Joining us at David Soper, a professor of law at Georgetown University, whose research focuses on

administrative law, constitutional law, legislation, local government law, and public welfare law.

He also teaches civil procedure, contracts, evidence, property and torts.

And in addition to Georgetown, he also taught law at Columbia, Harvard, Howard, Maryland, Penn, Washington, and Lee, and Yale.

And prior to entering the Legal Academy, he served for several years as a general counsel for the Senate on budget and policy priorities.

We will discuss his article at the Hill, don't fall for it.

The federal employee buyout plan is a trick.

Then with Democratic senators pulling an all-nighter in the Senate to protest Trump's head of the OMB,

the Christian nationalist and Democrat hater, Russell Vout.

We will speak with Lisa Graves, the executive director of the new corporate watchdog group True North Research and Court accountability.

She has served as a senior advisor in all three branches of the federal government,

as Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the Justice Department, as Chief Counsel for

nominations on the Senate Judiciary Committee, and as a deputy chief of the Article III

judges' division for the U.S. courts. Then finally would examine the terrifying collusion

between the extreme right and American policing

that threatens the very foundations of our democracy, which will get much worse as Trump,

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