from WNYC Studios. I'm Brian Lehrer. This is my daily politics podcast. It's Wednesday, May 28th.

So as many of you know, during these first few months of the Trump administration, we've been following two paths on

this show, as I think many people have. One is the blizzard of policies coming from the government.

They're pros and cons and impacts on people in a time of radical change. The other is the question,

is this what democracy looks like. And so much of that is being played out in court, with literally

hundreds of lawsuits being filed since the inauguration. Just in the last day, for example,

and we've had so many days like this, but I'm going to focus on the last 24 hours for a minute.

We had court activities on Trump's exertions of power against law firms,

the media, New York State's mass transit funding, and his desire to deport migrants,

not just to their countries of origin, but to third countries, particularly South Sudan.

On the law firms, as the New York Times reports it today, if you haven't heard this one yet,

a judge struck down his executive order seeking to crush Wilmer Hale, one of several firms,

the president says, have wronged him or have done work for his political opponents.

Judge Richard Leon of the Federal District Court for D.C. ruled that the order was unconstitutional and, quote,

must be struck down in its entirety, unquote, on congestion pricing, as Gothamist reports it,

a Manhattan federal judge on Tuesday barred the U.S. Department of Transportation from retaliating

against the MTA over the agency's decision to continue charging

its congestion pricing tolls despite a federal directive to shut down the program.

There was the new lawsuit filed yesterday by NPR and three Colorado public radio stations

claiming Trump's executive order seeking to defund the network

because he doesn't like their editorial choices is a violation of the freedom of the press

guaranteed in the First Amendment to the Constitution. So that's three. And number four, on deportations,

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