Hello, everyone. We are in a new administration, which means we at Civics 101 are not getting a whole heck of a lot of sleep.

So I'll make this quick. It is our winter fundraiser. We have one item on offer this year. And it's my favorite so far.

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Because it sure is mine, even if this cup will probably only hold coffee.

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Like, really, really.

I want to do like a long-order intro to this with like the done done and all that.

The episode you're about to hear.

But really, folks, the episode you're about to hear contains information on executive orders.

The guest was interviewed before President Trump's inauguration in January, and since then,

every single day has brought new executive actions and legal challenges to those actions.

For example, on January 28th, a two-page memorandum from the Office of Management

and Budget ordered a freeze on all federal assistance programs, including all grants and loans.

Among other things, this memo resulted in Medicaid portals being down in all 50 states.

Now, a district judge in Washington, D.C., blocked the freeze later that afternoon,

so it is temporarily halted until a hearing on Monday the day before this episode comes out.

So what this preamble here is trying to say is that regardless of whether a branch of government complies

with the rule of law or not, we at Civics 101 talk about the law and about the Supreme

Law of the Land, the Constitution. Yes, we make a lot of airbud jokes, but in the end, we refuse to

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