Trump’s Coup Continues: Supreme Court Defiance and the Ivy League Showdown
The Oath and The Office
Corey Brettschneider
4.9 • 591 Ratings
🗓️ 16 April 2025
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
Then we turn to Harvard, where the Trump movement’s push for “viewpoint diversity” is really a cover for ideological quotas—and Chris Rufo admits it’s all about destroying elite institutions. We unpack how this connects to attempts to defund universities under the Civil Rights Act.
Finally, we pull back: What makes Trump different from past threats to democracy? From John Adams to Woodrow Wilson, we’ve seen nationalism and authoritarianism before—but never like this. And yet, there’s hope. Resistance has worked in the past. Can it again? Learn more with Corey's new book, The Presidents and the People: Five Leaders Who Threatened Democracy and the Citizens Who Fought to Defend It: https://www.amazon.com/Presidents-People-Threatened-Democracy-Citizens/dp/1324006277
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome once again to another edition of The Oath and the Office starring Professor Corey Brett Schneider. |
| 0:15.0 | I am John Fuglesang, the professor's professional hype man, and it is a pleasure to have you back once again. |
| 0:20.0 | It's been a very packed week. |
| 0:22.4 | Would you allow me to introduce one of the sharpest constitutional thinkers in this country, |
| 0:27.1 | the man with the PhD in politics from Princeton, the law degree from Stanford, the teaching |
| 0:31.8 | posted Brown, a man who is shaping the next generation of defenders of democracy, |
| 0:37.2 | professor and public scholar, an author of the Oath in the Office, a Guide to the Constitution for Future Presidents, and the Presidents and the people, five leaders who threaten democracy and the citizens who fought to defend it. People of Earth, you wanted to the best. You got the best. I give you Professor Corey Brechtnter. Wow, John, You know, in my wildest dreams one day, I would have a hype man. |
| 0:57.4 | I grew up loving public enemy, of course, with one of the greatest hype man of all time. |
| 1:02.4 | And it's happening. |
| 1:04.0 | You are a great hype man, but also a terrific interlocutor. |
| 1:08.3 | And it's been such a pleasure to be having these conversations with you. |
| 1:12.0 | And as we hear from audience members, I'm just thrilled that they're really getting a lot of it out of it too. |
| 1:18.2 | Thank you, Professor. What can I say? But yeah, boy, it's so good to have you here. |
| 1:23.6 | Obviously, Professor, we have to start again with the Kilmar-Garcia case. Now, the Supreme Court |
| 1:28.4 | ordered Donald Trump to facilitate his return to the U.S. Again, I went to public school, |
| 1:34.9 | but I think that's a clear directive after one federal judge said to bring him back, after |
| 1:39.4 | they illegally shipped him away, after they admitted in court, they illegally shipped this man, |
| 1:45.2 | after the president and the vice president lied about his involvement with gangs and in terrorism. |
| 1:51.3 | And what followed after the Supreme Court's nine, nothing, historic ruling, was not only defiance, |
| 1:58.4 | but mockery. As he has constantly done, Donald Trump |
| 2:01.8 | has wagged his tiny junk at the goddess of Liberty, |
| 2:05.5 | and that's why she wears a blindfold. |
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