No Due Process, Yes Jumbo Plane [TEASER]

5-4

Prologue Projects

News Commentary, News, Government

4.6 • 3.2K Ratings

🗓️ 20 May 2025

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

Since taking office, Trump has moved quickly to implement his authoritarian agenda. Now, he is asking the Supreme Court to limit the judicial branch by preventing individual judges from blocking his orders.

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5-4 is presented by Prologue Projects. This episode was produced by Dustin DeSoto. Leon Neyfakh provides editorial support. Our researcher is Jonathan DeBruin, and our website was designed by Peter Murphy. Our artwork is by Teddy Blanks at Chips NY, and our theme song is by Spatial Relations. Transcriptions of each episode are available at fivefourpod.com

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0:00.0	Hey everyone. This is Leon from Prologue Projects.
0:07.4	On this subscriber-only episode of 5 to 4, Peter, Riannon, and Michael are checking in on the Trump White House,
0:14.5	revocation of student visas, the arrest of individuals involved in pro-Palestinian activism,
0:19.9	and the effort to enact
0:21.7	mass deportations using the Alien Enemies Act.
0:25.2	And then there's the attack on the judiciary.
0:28.1	Much of what Trump has tried to do has been challenged in federal court.
0:31.8	So the administration is asking the Supreme Court to get the judicial branch out of its way.
0:36.6	The Supreme Court took up a case that could decide how quickly President Trump can get his
0:41.7	second-term agenda off the ground.
0:43.7	The justices are hearing arguments about the ability for a single judge to block a policy
0:48.4	for the entire country.
0:50.1	This is 5 to 4, a podcast about how much the Supreme Court sucks.
0:57.7	Welcome to 5 to 4, where we dissect and analyze the Supreme Court cases that have consumed our nation,
1:03.8	like our president, consuming fish fillets in Riyadh.
1:08.3	I'm Peter. I'm here with Rianan.
1:10.3	Hey.
1:14.7	And Michael. And we know he's eating those because they have a mobile McDonald's following him around Saudi Arabia. That's right. Yes. The Saudis thought that it would be a
1:21.8	good idea to greet our president on his diplomatic visit with a mobile McDonald's.
1:28.5	They were right.
1:30.7	They fucking nailed it.
1:32.7	Right.
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