Hello and welcome to Bureau Economics. Now, about a month ago, I had a fascinating chat with Farras Moudad,

who I'm glad to say he's back. Foras. Thank you for coming back.

Thanks for inviting me. Thanks for inviting me back.

We got to skim over a lot of topics last time, but we didn't get to dive in. And I felt

it really justified a follow-up to dig deeper in some of these stuff. Again, there's so many places that we could start,

but we are coming up to about 100 days of Trump's second term, his third election win.

What's his scorecard looking like so far?

Better on the domestic front than on the international front. So in terms of showing

judges and others that nobody is above the law and that immigration laws are going to be

enforced, he's doing well. The arrest of two judges for basically harboring illegal migrants sent the

right kind of message, I would suspect, but it also is leading to a big backlash. On the

DEI stuff, he's hammering away at that issue. People are claiming that it's a question of academic freedom

and it's a question of this, that and the other, but really it's just racism. Racism directed

against the Europeans. And he has the backing of the Supreme Court on this as well. And he has

the backing of the Supreme Court on this. There's a major crisis with the courts in general because the judiciary

in America and arguably in Britain and in Europe has accumulated a huge amount of power

and the ability to check the actions of the executive based on what some might construe as a misreading of the

constitution or as judicial overreach. This is still being debated and litigated, but there is

certainly a constitutional crisis that's brewing over how much freedom does the executive have.

Well, my understanding of the American system is supposed to be three co-equal branches.

And in order for one of the branches to be effectively shut down or told to behave,

it takes the other two working in unison.

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