Mueller Warned Congress. Trump Celebrated His Death.
The Oath and The Office
Corey Brettschneider
4.9 • 591 Ratings
🗓️ 26 March 2026
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
Then: a major Supreme Court voting-rights case out of Mississippi, ICE at airports as a new front in Trump’s immigration crackdown, and a federal judge’s ruling against Pentagon restrictions on defense reporters.
Plus, a listener from the U.K. asks a question many Americans are asking too: could Trump really defy the Constitution and try for a third term?
This week’s episode connects the week’s biggest legal and political stories into one urgent question: how many constitutional guardrails are still holding?
Learn more about the ACLU and its upcoming Supreme Court case at aclu.org/barbara.
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| 0:00.0 | This episode of The Oath in the Office is sponsored by the ACLU. |
| 0:12.9 | Welcome to another episode of The Oath and the Office. |
| 0:16.1 | I am John Fuglesang. |
| 0:17.6 | We've got a great one planned for you today. |
| 0:19.6 | The truth about Robert Mueller behind |
| 0:22.2 | the petulant tantrum distractions. Ice is in our airports. Is this really about the midterms? And |
| 0:28.5 | big news out of Mississippi about the future of voting by mail. For more, let's go to the star |
| 0:34.8 | of our show, the author of The Oath and the Office, |
| 0:42.4 | the pride of the Polyside Department at Brown University, Professor Corey Boomb-Berget Schneider. |
| 0:43.2 | Corey, welcome. |
| 0:44.0 | It's good to see you, sir. |
| 0:45.2 | Thanks, John. |
| 0:47.4 | I appreciate the new nickname every week. |
| 0:52.6 | I look forward to these introductions, as ridiculous and wonderful as they are. |
| 0:55.9 | We've also got a lot of stories to talk about, |
| 1:01.9 | and most important on that list, I'd say, up front is correcting the record on Robert Mueller, |
| 1:08.6 | who's really been maligned and slammed. And really, the story of the truth of the matter and uncovering it is the key to uncovering and rescuing our democracy. |
| 1:13.6 | Well, let's jump off on that point then, because this is a man who spent his life serving this country |
| 1:18.6 | and then was insulted in death by a petulant child who treats the Constitution like something he gives a one-star Yelp review to. |
| 1:26.6 | Robert Mueller was a decorated Marine, a |
| 1:28.6 | purple heart recipient, a lifelong public servant. And Donald Trump responded to his death at age 81, |
| 1:35.4 | you know, like a drunk guy getting kicked out of a casino, right? Like, oh, I'm glad he's dead. You know, |
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