Hey, everybody. Welcome to the Muck Rake podcast. This is our Weekender episode, as you know, on Fridays. And if you want to hear the whole thing, I would recommend going over to our Patreon and subscribing because you'll get the full Friday weekend or episode every Friday. And you'll also get lots of other things like our special live shows and our Discord discussion, which is terrific and just a great all-around community.

Coming up in a little bit, we'll have Jason Needleman who will join me.

He's a political science professor from the University of Laverne.

And the reason why I'm doing some guests instead of having my normal co-host of Jared Y. Sectionxton with me because he's unavailable today. So we are going to have some people coming in

and giving us some different perspectives. And I'm pleased to bring in our first guest, Greg Rosenfeld,

and he is a criminal defense attorney from Palm Beach County. And I thought Greg can come in here

and discuss a few of the

things from a law background in terms of what's going on with the Trump administration and why we

should be concerned or maybe not so concerned. So Greg, thanks for coming on the show today.

It is a pleasure. Thanks for having me. Full disclosure, Greg and I are distantly related.

And we have had this discussion quite a bit over text for quite a long time.

But, you know, Greg, it seems to me that if you're a criminal defense attorney, you sort of have particular insights into the criminal mind, I suppose we'll call it. And since we have, I think we

have one to discuss in the White House, what do you make sort of generally about the, I mean,

would you consider this sort of an assault on the Constitution consistently across the board

since Trump was elected? I mean, I think the rule of law is crumbling in our country right now.

I think it's, you know, a very dangerous time. I think more so now than ever, our courts are failing us.

And, you know, that really stems from, you know, the judicial deference, the appellate courts are giving, you know, Trump at this point.

You know, it's terrifying.

One thing I thought was interesting was that even when we get to the Supreme Court, it seems like they're also willing to advocate their power

in the service of some sort of imperial presidency. Does it, does it feel that way?

Is that shocking to you as well that they wouldn't want to sort of maintain their equal

part of the Constitution?

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