ICE Kills Renee Good: Can Minnesota Charge? + Trump’s White-Grievance Politics
The Oath and The Office
Corey Brettschneider
4.9 • 591 Ratings
🗓️ 15 January 2026
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
Then: Trump “unmasks” himself with rhetoric that escalates racial conflict—reviving the “reverse discrimination” frame and claiming white Americans have been “badly treated.” We unpack what that message is designed to do politically, and what it signals about the future of civil-rights enforcement.
Finally: a warning on Greenland—military planning and the use of force without Congress isn’t “strong”—it’s illegal. We explain the constitutional limits, what counts as an unlawful order, and what service members are (and aren’t) required to follow.
In this episode:
• Minneapolis: the legal path to state charges after Good’s killing
• Trump’s racial grievance politics—and why it matters right now
• Greenland: Congress, war powers, and the legality of military orders
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to another episode of The Oath and the Office featuring Professor Corey Brechtnyder. |
| 0:16.0 | I am John Fuglesang, Professor Brett Snyder's Evil Henschman, and I am so honored to welcome the star of our |
| 0:21.8 | show. You know him and love him from the Polly Side Department at Brown University. Perhaps you |
| 0:26.4 | were lucky enough to buy a copy of the oath in the office, a guide to the Constitution for future |
| 0:31.2 | presidents. Professor Corey Brett Schneider, it's been quite a week. It's great to see you. |
| 0:36.1 | Thanks, John. I mean, wow, just when you think maybe we've got one story, which is the fact that the president is engaged in an imperial colonial quest to take over a Latin American country, that would be the story. |
| 0:50.2 | Things just shifts so continually. And unfortunately, there is a theme of this self-coup |
| 0:55.8 | that takeover by the president of the other branches that both has to do with the war powers |
| 1:00.9 | abroad and then also domestically, the violation of civil liberties. So we've got a huge amount |
| 1:06.0 | to talk about this week. I think you're talking about the ancient history of America's |
| 1:10.4 | illegal invasion and subsequent |
| 1:11.9 | occupation of Venezuela to loot them for their natural resources. And oil companies are terrified |
| 1:18.1 | of having Iraq all over again, so no one wants to invest after Trump bought it and broke it for |
| 1:23.2 | the rest of us. But that's eight days ago, Corey. That's really old history. When we last taped an |
| 1:30.0 | episode, we had no idea that events in Minneapolis would draw the attention of the world away |
| 1:35.4 | from the attention to Venezuela. And can I just say, if you're a young person who feels like you |
| 1:41.9 | missed out on some of the authoritarian leaders of America's |
| 1:45.0 | recent past. In one week, Corey, we got war for oil and Kent State. Of course, the murder |
| 1:51.7 | by an ICE agent of Renee Nicole Good. We know that ICE has a bigger budget than the |
| 1:57.6 | militaries of most countries on earth. And yet, Professor, they're also petrified |
| 2:01.3 | of unarmed women sitting in their cars with the windows down. Now, there's a lot to unpack |
| 2:06.8 | about this, and we'll be talking about it for a very long time. And there's going to be repercussions |
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