Supreme Court Checks Trump — 2025 Year in Review
The Oath and The Office
Corey Brettschneider
4.9 • 591 Ratings
🗓️ 1 January 2026
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
We start with the Supreme Court checking Trump on using the National Guard—why it matters, and whether the Insurrection Act is the next risk. That ruling is our doorway into a 2025 Year in Review: we revisit Trump’s most dangerous attacks on the Constitution, and the guardrails that barely held.
Next, we break down Judge James Boasberg’s escalating confrontation with the administration over deportations tied to the 1798 Alien Enemies Act. Can the government claim people sent to Venezuela have no due process rights? And can courts be told it’s “too late” once they’re out of the country? We explain what the Constitution requires and what’s at stake for the rule of law.
Finally, we turn to Florida, where Ron DeSantis’s remake of New College offers a blueprint for a broader war on education—replacing what they label “woke” with enforced ideology, down to symbolic culture-war moves like honoring Charlie Kirk.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the final episode of the Oath in the Office for 20. |
| 0:14.6 | Did I say final? |
| 0:15.6 | I mean, welcome to the first episode of the Oath in the Office for 2026. |
| 0:19.7 | I'm John Fuglesang, along with Professor |
| 0:21.7 | Corey Brett Schneider. We have a lot of ground to cover for a year that doesn't want to stay |
| 0:27.7 | buried. Today we'll talk about some of the good news at the end of the year, as well as the most |
| 0:32.9 | egregious violations of law and constitutional norms and basic human decency by this administration. |
| 0:40.4 | We're going to cover due process abuses, illegal military deployments. We're going to talk about |
| 0:44.6 | questionable executive actions and unqualified corrupt crony cabinet members and endless |
| 0:49.7 | dreary lies in racism, public corruption, bribery in the open, and serious humanitarian and legal |
| 0:56.0 | red flags. And there's no one better for that than the star of this humble podcast. The man |
| 1:00.7 | who built this thing from nothing into one of the top government podcasts recognized in the nation |
| 1:05.8 | in less than a year, Professor and author Corey Brechtniter. It's good to see you, sir. Happy New Year. |
| 1:12.3 | John, what a pleasure to do this podcast. The beginning of the year is a great symbol of what |
| 1:16.5 | we're trying to do on this podcast. It's both a moment of optimism to talk about the future |
| 1:21.2 | and hopes, New Year's resolutions, but also to be honest about what we just faced in Project |
| 1:26.9 | 2025's year, 2025, the attempt to |
| 1:30.6 | destroy democracy. And so I'm looking forward to looking back and looking forward to. |
| 1:35.3 | Well, we have a lot to look back on, and I'm really glad you're here. But I want to begin the show |
| 1:40.5 | by ending 2025 on some good news. And that is President Comeover Caligula's ability to use the National Guard as playthings |
| 1:50.0 | has been put in check. |
| 1:53.0 | I know this could push him later to use the Insurrection Act, but for now, this is good news, |
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