Hello and welcome to Background Briefing available 247 at Background Briefing.org, I'm E and Masters,

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

We'll begin with the Trump-appointed judge overseeing the classified documents case in Florida,

delaying the start of the trial indefinitely in a blatant display of fealty to Trump

combined with obvious inexperience and incompetence, having been chosen by the Federalist Society

because of her ideological fidelity

to Leonard Leo's judicial litmus test. Joining us to discuss the serious and provable nature of the case

is Michael Greenberger, the former Principal Deputy Associate Attorney General at the United States

Department of Justice, where he supervised work on national security matters.

He's the founder and director of the Center for Health and Homeland Security at the University

of Maryland, where he also teaches constitutional law. Then we'll assess Putin's speech at the Kremlin

ceremony for his fifth inauguration, which was replete with appeals to imperial Russia's historical glory

and full of references to the motherland and historical lands, prompting sycophants on state

media to refer to Putin as the imperator, the formal title of the Russian Tsars.

Joining us is Asmart Junisbeye, a professor of sociology at Pitzer College, a native of Kazakhstan.

His research interests include Russian imperialism and social stratification and public opinion

about inequality and decolonization in Central Asia.

Then finally, we'll speak with Henry Giroux, who holds a chair for scholarship in the

public interest in English and cultural studies at McMaster University in Canada.

His recent books include disposable futures, violence in the age of spectacle,

America at war with itself, and insurrections.

His latest book, Just Out is Fascism on Trial, Education and the Possibility of Democracy.

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