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It's the Brian Laird Show on WN in for Brian today. Coming up later in the show, how ice raids or the threat of ice raids are making many people in the hospitality industry nervous. We'll want to hear from you if you work in the industry around restaurants, how are you and your

colleagues dealing with it? Plus, Michael Lohinger from On the Media, share some tips on how to

navigate the fire hose of news coming out of the Trump administration. Plus, we'll wrap up

today's show with a Super Bowl preview, not just the game, of course, but the halftime show, the snacks, the commercials,

et cetera, et cetera. We want to hear about your plans as well, including are you going to find

counter-programming to the Super Bowl on Sunday, a very public radio question. All right, we start off

first with this. President Trump has issued a raft of executive orders during his first week in office on everything from border policy to foreign policy to the language used by federal agencies when talking about gender and sexual orientation.

Almost immediately, many of those orders have been challenged in court. Here's what's happened just in the last

couple of days. Yesterday, New York Attorney General Letitia James signaled that she would sue the

Trump administration over access. He has given to billionaire Elon Musk that allowed Musk to view

private data of American citizens. Also yesterday, a federal judge in

Massachusetts suspended the deadline for federal workers to apply for a delayed resignation. A hearing

is said in that case for Monday. And last night, we also learned that a pair of unions representing

the workers at USAID are suing the administration over

its effort to dismantle the agency. Oh, but that's not all. There are lawsuits currently working through

the courts, including one challenging the Trump administration's moved to end birthright citizenship.

With us to talk about all of these challenges and their future in the courts is

Stephen Flattuck, a professor at Georgetown University Law Center. Good morning, Stephen. Welcome

back. Morning, Tiffany. Good to be with you. Listeners, of course, Stephen and I would love you in this

conversation as well. Do you have questions about the legal process involved in some of these

ongoing challenges? Are you involved as a plaintiff

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