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How Our Branches Of Government Hold Up In 2019

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News, News Commentary, Politics

4.66K Ratings

🗓️ 26 February 2019

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Virginia Heffernan welcomes back Dahlia Lithwick, host of Slate podcast Amicus, for a deep journey into the health of the judicial branch in Trump times, the leanings of justices John Roberts and Neil Gorsuch, the 25th amendment, Corey Robin’s New York Magazine thesis that Trump is “weak,” and whether we should still rely on our institutions. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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We will have a national emergency and we will then be sued

0:34.2

and they will sue us in the ninth circuit,

0:36.8

even though it shouldn't be there.

0:39.0

And we will possibly get a bad ruling and then we'll get another bad ruling

0:44.0

and then we'll end up in the Supreme Court and hopefully we'll get a fair shake

0:48.2

and we'll win in the Supreme Court just like the band.

0:52.2

They sued us in the ninth circuit and we lost and then we lost in the Appellate Division

0:57.8

and then we went to the Supreme Court and we won.

1:03.8

More than a dozen states are suing the administration

1:06.4

for trying to divert funds to build a wall along the U.S. Mexico border.

1:11.4

The beauty of the Constitution, the heart and the soul of the Constitution

1:17.6

is a separation of power with co-equal branches of government

1:22.6

to be a balance of power.

1:28.6

Hello and welcome to Trumpcast. I'm Virginia Heffernin.

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