Tren Wreck

The American Mind

The Claremont Institute

Philosophy, Declarationofindependence, Founding, Politics, Conservative, Limitedgovernment, Society & Culture, News, Constitution, Claremontinstitute

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🗓️ 20 March 2025

⏱️ 64 minutes

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You’re fired. Trump, by executive order, has moved to terminate federal contracts with law firm Perkins Coie for its role in promoting the 2016 Russiagate conspiracy and otherwise influencing elections—sparking fervorous debate in and across the aisle. Meanwhile, the administration invoked the emergency powers of the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 to deport members of the violent Venezuelan Tren de Aragua gang, provoking an activist judge to obstruct the law’s use. Who rules: Congress or courts? The hosts sit down to discuss these ongoing legal battles in government, real battles abroad, and the absurd responses from the Left across the board. Plus, more media recommendations!

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0:00.0	Coming up on this episode of The Roundtable.
0:03.0	I would just like to read you quickly an example of the quality of reasoning issuing out
0:08.0	of Obama and Biden appointees on some of Trump's executive actions.
0:13.0	So a judge ruled yesterday, I think, or maybe the day before, that Trump finally getting
0:18.2	the ban on transgender people in the military through the executive
0:21.7	branch. He's been wanting to do it since his first administration. A judge said, no, you can't
0:26.3	do that. You have to allow transgender persons to serve. I just want to read you a couple
0:30.6	footnotes in a little excerpt. So the courts, this is now quoting from the opinion, the
0:35.9	court's opinion is long, but its premise
0:38.4	is simple. In the self-evident truth that all people are created equal, all means all, nothing
0:44.5	more and certainly nothing less. Footnote, after all people are created equal, women were
0:50.4	included in the sequel, that's a quote, when passage of the 19th Amendment granted them
0:54.5	the right to vote in 1920. C. Lynn Manuel, Miranda, Hamilton, and American musical in 2016,
1:04.3	compare U.S. Declaration of Independence, 1776, with U.S. Constitution Amendment 19, 1920.
1:15.6	That right is one of the many thousands of transgender persons served to protect. The Welcome, once again to the Roundtable, your weekly publishers and editors podcast here at the American Mind. I'm your host, Spencer Claven, associate editor of the Claremont Review of Books and the American Mind Editor who killed JFK.
2:03.6	I am joined this week by publisher and president Ryan Williams and managing editor Mike Sabo.
2:11.2	Now, we got some interesting debate on the agenda today.
2:15.7	I'm not sure if we are in a debate.
2:17.1	We'll find out whether we have
2:18.2	differing opinions on this topic, but there has been some interesting debate on the right
2:22.6	about one of Trump's many executive orders. This one aimed directly at a particular law firm,
2:31.5	Perkins-CoE-L-LP. And if you've never heard of these guys, I sympathize. I'm
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