Welcome once again to the Oath and the Office podcast. I am John Fugles-Sang, so humbled and honored to be here, joined by one of my favorite people, the Ivy League professor, the author of the

oath in the office, a guide to the U.S. Constitution for future presidents, the great professor

Corey Brechtnyder.

Corey, I got to be honest.

I wasn't really ready when we started doing this for how colossally popular this podcast would

become.

I feel like we need to, like, I don't know, have like a

stretch limo and some coke and escorts every time we meet up because I just like, it's,

you're the Mac, sir. The response has been so great. Congratulations. Thanks. And thanks to you, John.

I think, frankly, it's the dynamic that people want these in-depth discussions.

And most excitedly, I'm happy to let people know that in the second half,

we're going to have one of the really world's premier commentators on constitutional law

in the Supreme Court, Dahlia Lithwick.

And we had this amazing discussion with Congressman Ted Liu last week,

of course, and that was amazing. We're hearing from listeners about that. What I will say about it

is it's not the normal thing that you would get on, you know, what's your response to the shutdown?

What's your response to that? The normal kind of interview.

We're talking about the structure of our democracy, the threat to it, the ongoing self-coup.

And so what was so important about that is you heard Congressman Liu talk about reclaiming our

Constitution, that we've done it before in the period after Nixon and that he wants to take the lead in doing

it again.

And he already is crafting legislation to rein in presidential power.

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