Hello and welcome to Background Briefing, available 24-7 at Background Briefing.org.

I'm Ian Masters, and today we'll examine a number of stories and issues in the news.

We'll begin with the

groundwork that was laid so that Trump could take power back by the oligarchs and theocrats who

financed his election and focus on the Roberts Court that made it all possible in a purposeful

project to do by judicial fiat what could never be done by any other democratic process.

We'll discuss how this is not a judicial power grab because Leonard Leo's Supreme Court

justices aren't trying to grab power for themselves, but for the oligarchs and theocrats

who have their loyalty. Joining us is Michael Podosa, the former political director of the AFLCAO, who also founded the

Analysis Institute, the Independent Strategic Research Collaborative, the Defend Democracy Project,

and the polling consortium, and helped found America votes, working America for our future

and catalyst. In 2020, he America for our future and catalyst.

In 2020, he played a pivotal organizing role in the efforts to prevent Trump from overturning the election results,

and his early leadership in evidence-driven politics was documented in the 2013 book, The Victory Lab.

He is now a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress and writes the Substack

weekend reading where his latest article we will discuss is,

Change No One Would Have Believed, Audacious Hope recedes in the rearview mirror.

Then when examined Trump's plans to use the U.S. military against migrants and drug

cartels after invoking the

Alien Enemies Act of 1798 in his inaugural speech and speak with Elizabeth Goitin, the co-director

of the Liberty and National Security Program at the Brennan Center for Justice. Previously,

she was counsel to Senator Feingold, chairman of the Constitutional

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