It's the Brian Larry Show on WNYC.

Good morning, everyone.

Thanks to Amina Cerna, Bridget Bergen, and Tiffany Hansen for filling in last week.

Eye procedures accomplished.

I can now see without glasses for the first time since I was about 12 years old.

Did you know the sky was blue?

It's really, really blue.

Okay, that's an exaggeration.

But poof.

Now, we'll talk later in the show about the death of Pope Francis, of course, with open phones for any of you who are grieving as Catholics, who had been affected by him, or with any other thoughts.

We'll also take calls on whether the world's situation came up at your Easter services yesterday, if you are any kind of church-going Christian. And we'll hear from our

transportation reporter Stephen Nesson today about the Trump administration taking control away

from the MTA for the renovation of Penn Station. That article is called Trump Station on

Gothamist. So far, Governor Hoka likes the idea, but we have

questions. And we'll do two segments today about the rule of law. We'll talk to a law professor,

former Dean of the Yale Law School, former State Department official, Harold Coe, about the fundamental

threat to democracy of Trump barring selected law firms

from doing business with the federal government. One version of an article on this that I read said

even anyone who has hired those law firms, I guess for things unrelated to Trump, but we will

find out if it goes actually that far.

That'll be our second rule of law segment today. We will begin with this one.

There was some kind of middle-of-the-night drama involving the Supreme Court on Friday night.

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