Armed soldiers on peaceful U.S. streets, mask agents kidnapping folks without warrants or cause U.S.

House districts openly stolen in Texas.

Sex traffickers protected in high places, a weaponized DOJ, and Snoop Dog doesn't like

cartoon lesbian relationships.

Welcome to the oath and the office.

I'm John Fugel saying this week on the pod, Trump has signed an executive order banning flag burning, despite

decades of Supreme Court precedents protecting flag burning. Trump has attempted to fire the Federal

Reserve Governor Lisa Cook. In California, Newsom and the Democrats are considering dismantling

an independent redistricting commission in response to the aggressive Republican gerrymanders elsewhere.

And in a striking remark, Comover Caligula suggested that a lot of people might like a dictator.

To help us unpack the unconstitutional, political, and civic stakes in all of this,

please welcome. Professor Corey Brechtnyder, one of the nation's foremost constitutional law scholars

and the author of the oath in the office.

Professor, welcome back.

Thanks so much, John.

I mean, what a week.

We'll cover a lot, as you said, the flag-burning executive order, essentially trying to revoke free speech, although he did it in a bizarre way.

We'll talk about that.

It has all sorts of complications.

The fight about gerrymandering, all of these things, you know, it lead us to a moment where we're going to feel confused. But I think one of the best defenses of democracy is just to clarify what's at stake, to think clearly about it, to have some humor. And that's what this podcast is all about. So what a pleasure to have this

conversation with you. Well, I'm glad you think it's a pleasure because the Constitution is once

again being tested on multiple fronts. Let's begin with the silliest, which could be the scariest,

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