The Trump Administration's All-Out Assault On Judges
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🗓️ 20 March 2025
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Summary
Are we in a constitutional crisis? That’s the big question on the minds of legal experts across the country right now, as President Donald Trump and his allies ramp up attacks on federal judges who rule against him. The president’s latest beef is with the federal judge who tried to block his administration from deporting more than 250 migrants, mostly from Venezuela. A swath of the American Right, including billionaire Elon Musk, has now decided that if federal judges won’t back Trump at every legal turn, they should be impeached and removed from the bench. Leah Litman, co-host of Crooked’s legal podcast ‘Strict Scrutiny,’ stops by to talk about this moment and its legal significance.
Later in the show, Crooked Climate Correspondent Anya Zoledziowski breaks down the craziness happening at the Environmental Protection Agency.
And in headlines: The Federal Reserve kept interest rates flat and warned Trump’s tariffs have thrown the economy's health into question, Trump said he had a ‘very good telephone call' with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy about a ceasefire with Russia, and Attorney General Pam Bondi called a recent string of vandalism attacks on Tesla dealerships ‘nothing short of domestic terrorism.’
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| 0:00.0 | It's Thursday, March 20th. |
| 0:03.9 | I'm Jane Koston, and this is Wadadde. |
| 0:05.8 | The show that really cannot get enough of watching Republicans get absolutely rocked at town halls. |
| 0:11.6 | This time, it's Representative Mike Flood of Nebraska. |
| 0:14.7 | Jackill Rick! |
| 0:16.7 | Is that ASMR? |
| 0:33.3 | No. Is that ASMR? On today's show, the Trump administration plays things real chill and calls a tax on Tesla dealership's domestic terrorism. |
| 0:35.7 | And the Federal Reserve keeps interest rates steady amid |
| 0:38.4 | amid mounting economic uncertainty. But first, are we in a constitutional crisis? That's the big |
| 0:44.4 | question on the minds of legal experts right now. President Donald Trump has been whining |
| 0:48.8 | about judges who rule against him since like, what seems like forever. But he's taken both his |
| 0:54.0 | rhetoric and his |
| 0:54.9 | threats to new heights this week. His beef is with the federal judge who tried to block his |
| 0:59.1 | administration from deporting more than 250 migrants, mostly from Venezuela. The judge has asked the |
| 1:04.6 | government multiple times to answer some very basic questions about those deportation flights, |
| 1:08.8 | like, you know, who was on them? And when did they take |
| 1:13.1 | off from the United States? He's even given the government an extra day to reply. But apparently |
| 1:17.9 | asking those questions was very mean, according to Attorney General Pam Bondi, who was on Fox News |
| 1:23.0 | Wednesday. This judge had no right to do that. They're meddling in foreign affairs. They're meddling in |
| 1:29.8 | our government. See, he does have the right, Attorney General Bondi, and he does because we don't |
| 1:35.3 | actually know if the hundreds of people in those plans were dangerous or guilty of anything at all. |
| 1:40.4 | The administration has released almost no information about the deportees, and the Justice |
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