Trump’s Opening Salvo
5-4
Prologue Projects
4.6 • 3.2K Ratings
🗓️ 11 February 2025
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
Trump’s blitzkrieg of executive orders has left many of us scrambling. The policies are cruel and reactionary, but do they amount to a constitutional crisis?
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, everyone. This is Leon from Prologue Projects. On this episode of 5 to 4, Peter, Riannon, and Michael are taking stock of Trump's first few weeks in office, with a special focus on his executive orders targeting trans rights, free speech on college campuses, and birthright citizenship. |
| 0:22.1 | Welcome to the era of the power grab. Since President Donald Trump was sworn in, nearly every |
| 0:28.3 | move he's made has been an attempt to consolidate authority under the executive branch. |
| 0:33.5 | Some of Trump's executive orders are already being challenged in court, which means in all likelihood that 5 to 4 will not be running out of Supreme Court cases to dissect and analyze anytime soon. |
| 0:44.3 | This is 5 to 4, a podcast about how much the Supreme Court sucks. |
| 1:07.1 | Thank you. Welcome to 5 to 4, where we dissect and analyze the Supreme Court cases that have eliminated our civil rights like Donald Trump, eliminating entire federal agencies. |
| 1:13.7 | I'm Peter. I'm here with Riannon. Hey, everybody. And Michael. Hi. This is sort of a special episode. We were going to do McCutcheon v. FEC, a case, but we're going to hold off for now |
| 1:20.3 | to update you on the various goings-on in the Trump administration in its opening weeks. |
| 1:27.6 | Historically, we've not exactly been a current events podcast, but with all that is |
| 1:33.5 | happening right now, we wanted to help everyone get their arms around this moment. |
| 1:38.7 | And we may continue to do episodes like this now and then. |
| 1:42.4 | We don't want to be a breaking news podcast. |
| 1:44.8 | We're not going to do the weird thing where we have emergency episodes every two days during |
| 1:50.0 | the Trump administration because there's like a new executive order or whatever. |
| 1:53.1 | Right. Right. But we do want you are beautiful listeners to be able to rely on us to navigate |
| 1:58.7 | the headlines. And also, there aren't that many Supreme Court cases |
| 2:02.8 | less. We don't have another five years of this, right? So we're going to have to do some of these. |
| 2:06.6 | But it's also so squarely legal, right? I mean, a lot of this stuff that we're about to talk about |
| 2:11.1 | is going to the Supreme Court. So, yeah, we're just talking about some, like, stage zero |
| 2:16.8 | Supreme Court cases, basically. |
| 2:18.8 | Yeah. |
| 2:19.0 | Yeah. |
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