Rigging Reality: Trump Fires Stats Chief as Texas Targets Voting Rights
The Oath and The Office
Corey Brettschneider
4.9 • 591 Ratings
🗓️ 7 August 2025
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
- Listener question: What exactly is the Supreme Court’s “shadow docket,” and why is Brett Kavanaugh defending it? Corey and John unpack the secretive tool reshaping American law behind closed doors.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to another episode of The Oath and the Office. |
| 0:15.0 | I am John Fuglesang. |
| 0:16.0 | I am so pleased to share this mic with one of our most incisive legal minds. Professor Corey Brechtnter, a professor of political science at Brown University, the author of The Oath and the Office, a guide to the Constitution for future presidents. The professor is also a regular contributor to Politico, the New York Times, The Atlantic. I can barely keep up with you, Corey. Welcome back. It's so good to see you. Thanks, John. We're in the midst of a |
| 0:37.7 | constitutional crisis. We're going to talk about the president essentially trying to rewrite the |
| 0:42.9 | truth, eliminate statistics. We're going to talk to about the complicated and frightening |
| 0:50.1 | prospect of Texas rewriting the electoral map and the question of whether or not there's |
| 0:55.5 | a principled reason why California and New York should not fight back. Just a little preview. |
| 1:01.1 | I think they absolutely should, as I know you do too. And looking forward to those discussions |
| 1:06.9 | and others on this episode. And thanks to the listeners who have subscribed. We are growing. |
| 1:12.1 | Summer is supposedly a slow time for podcasts, but not for this one. We're getting rating after |
| 1:16.5 | rating five stars completely, which is very unusual when you're over as we are, our 325. |
| 1:22.9 | And even though it's summer, the podcast is growing and growing. It's really taking off. People are spreading the news, sharing it. |
| 1:28.9 | So thanks for that. |
| 1:30.0 | Well, there's a lot going on. |
| 1:31.2 | It should be taken off. |
| 1:32.5 | We're right now at a situation where numbers crunchers are getting fired for reporting stats. |
| 1:38.9 | Brett Kavanaugh is publicly defending the shadow docket. |
| 1:42.3 | It's prosecutor Jack Smith's getting prosecuted. |
| 1:44.7 | Janine Piro conspiracy theorist is getting a promotion and the most famous sex trafficker in America. |
| 1:51.7 | It's getting a spa day, Corey. Jelaine Maxwell gets to go to a nice prison with cucumber in the water. |
| 1:57.2 | It's so nice. But let me let me start off by asking you about Texas's escalating |
| 2:01.7 | gerrymandering plans and the growing response from blue states like California and New York. |
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