It's the Brian Laris Show on WNYC. Good morning, everyone. Emily Bazelon will join us in just a minute.

Emily, who writes about the law and how it affects people for the New York

Times Magazine. You know some of her great work, probably, and teaches the art of the argument

at Yale Law School. The context, as we start the week, is that it's the courts more and more,

and more than anywhere else, where the line between the rule of law and autocracy is being

established or redrawn. The Times reported last week that as of May 16th, at least 160

rulings have at least temporarily paused some of the administration's initiatives.

And the Supreme Court on Friday made a temporary but possibly very important rule of law decision.

If you took the weekend off from the news, you may not know this yet.

We'll explain it.

A little more context.

We're going to cover the Supreme Court and the courts in general a lot on this show in the

second hundred days of the Trump administration, always so much hype around the first hundred

days. But these second hundred days are where some things may become entrenched or not. And a period

when the administration's version of how much unbridled power a president should have will meet

some of what appears to be hundreds of lawsuits overall, challenging Trump's claim to so much power as overreach or unconstitutional.

They've even recently arrested a judge. You've probably heard that in Wisconsin and the mayor of Newark, Raz Baraka, on alleged crimes tangential to the crackdown on immigration.

So we're having Emily today, Nina Totenberg, to continue the conversation tomorrow,

just as a program note about a little continuity on this.

To make her intro official, Emily Bazelon is a New York Times magazine staff writer, Truman Capote

Fellow at the Yale Law School, co-host of the Slate Political Gap Fest, and the author of two

national bestseller books, charged the movement to transform American prosecution and

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