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The Drill Down with Peter Schweizer

Schweizer: Activist Judges Buying Time for “The Resistance”

The Drill Down with Peter Schweizer

Government Accountability Institute

News Commentary, News, Daily News, Politics

4.9627 Ratings

🗓️ 26 March 2025

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

The new administration of Donald Trump has been a whirlwind of activity in its first one hundred days but is running into resistance from men in black – activist federal judges.

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0:00.0

Research that resonates.

0:05.0

He's the president of the Government Accountability Institute, Peter Switzer.

0:09.0

Peter Schweitzer. Peter Schweitzer. Peter Schweitzer has spent many years, in fact, probably

0:16.0

done a more comprehensive job than anyone's ever done, chronicling the corruption by the powerful in Washington. The very prescient Eric Eggers.

0:22.6

Join me right now is Government Accountability Institute Research Director, Eric Eggers.

0:27.6

We're going to take information that we've learned that people like Peter Schweitzer have uncovered,

0:31.6

and we're going to try to go further.

0:34.6

Great investigative reporting, Peter. You're the only one doing it.

0:37.6

Thank God.

0:38.5

Eric Eggers from the Government Accountability Institute and co-hosts of that great podcast,

0:43.4

The Drill Down with Peter Schweitzer.

0:45.7

This is The Drill Down with Peter Schweitzer.

0:49.3

Hi, this is Peter Schweitzer and welcome to The Drill Down.

0:52.7

Donald Trump continues to march in Washington, D.C., with very little organized opposition.

0:58.7

But there actually is some from an unlikely or surprising source.

1:03.7

And they're like Johnny Cash dressed in black.

1:07.1

We're going to dissect the opposition to Donald Trump and what the courts are doing with a co-host of this program. As always, Eric Eggers. Eric, how are you? I'm excellent, Peter. We're glad to have you back. You know, we missed you last week and clearly so did the audience. So thank you. I wanted to ask you, by the way, I've known you for a long time. You're, I think, a pretty fashionable guy.

1:31.6

You don't wear a lot of black. Have you ever considered wearing black? Well, some people like to say the quiet part out loud, and sometimes we just wear it. Well, the most important

1:38.6

opposition to Donald Trump right now is actually coming from people in black robes. It's the federal

1:43.2

judiciary. And part of that is

1:45.5

you have this massive leadership gap on the left. A recent poll done asked who should sort of lead

1:51.4

the opposition to Donald Trump. 30 percent, nobody. And every other person named only got 10

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