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🗓️ 21 April 2025
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0:00.0 | Americans love using their credit cards, the most secure and hassle-free way to pay. |
0:04.0 | But DC politicians want to change that with the Durban Marshall Credit Card Bill. |
0:08.0 | This bill lets corporate megastores pick how your credit card is processed, |
0:13.0 | allowing them to use untested payment networks that jeopardize your data security and rewards. |
0:18.0 | Corporate megastores will make more money and you pay the price tell |
0:22.2 | congress to guard your card because americans lose when politicians choose learn more at guard |
0:29.0 | your card dot com from the opinion pages of the wall street Journal, this is Potomac Watch. |
0:38.7 | President Trump keeps pushing the limits of his executive power, and the courts are pushing |
0:44.2 | back. How should we think about this showdown and could it escalate into a constitutional |
0:50.4 | crisis between the president and the Supreme Court. That's our subject for today on |
0:56.3 | Potomac Watch. I'm Paul as you go, editor of the opinion pages of the Wall Street Journal. And my guest |
1:01.2 | today is an expert on executive power in the American Constitution, John U, professor of law |
1:07.8 | at University of California at Berkeley. But don't hold that against him. He is actually |
1:13.2 | a conservative constitutionalist. He's the author of Defender in Chief, Trump's Fight for Presidential Power |
1:19.8 | and other books. He is Professor U.S. clerk for Justice Clarence Thomas on the Supreme Court and |
1:26.3 | Judge Lawrence Silberman on the D.C. Circuit. |
1:29.7 | He served at all three branches of government, including in the Justice Department under President |
1:35.6 | George W. Bush after 9-11. Welcome, John. Good to see you. Great to be with you, Paul. |
1:41.9 | So you've watched presidents over many years, and I think it's fair to say, reading your work |
1:47.9 | over the years, that you're a believer in what Hamilton called energy in the executive, |
1:53.6 | an energetic executive who uses the full powers of the presidency to accomplish his political |
2:00.4 | and policy goals. But have you ever |
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