Welcome once again to another episode of The Oath and the Office.

I'm John Fuglesang and I am proud to be joined by the star by the Mac of this podcast.

Professor Corey Brett Schneider, a man who of course has the PhD in politics from Princeton, the law degree from Stanford, and has enriched the minds of students at Brown University. I have read the professor in New York Times, MSNBC. I love his book, The Oath in the Office. I love his new book, The Presidents and the People, five leaders who threaten democracy and the citizens who fought to defend it. And that's why I'm happy to be your hype man, your flavor flave. Professor Brett Schneider, welcome back. Thanks so much, John. Growing up in Queens and being a lover of old school rap, I just dreamed of having a hype man. So now that it's happened, this is a dream come true. And really, I mean, the podcast is getting such

a reception and such a pleasure. We're living through a moment of crisis, but the idea that the

president takes an oath to preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution, the courts aren't

going to hold them to it, and certainly not in all cases. And so that's what you and I are doing.

That's what the listeners are doing. And that's what this great growing community is doing around the podcast. What a

thrill to do this with you. Amen. I also want to say happy liberation day, Corey. I hope you're

enjoying the liberation day of Donald Trump's. It means tariff day, I think. And tariff day means

the countdown has begun for Howard Lutnik to be blamed and

fired for all the tariffs. So I hope you're having a good one. People are being liberated from

their 401ks. Professor, we've got so much to get to this week. There's so much in the news that is

very immediate. And I guess we should start before we get to anything by just talking about how

Elon Musk just tried to buy the Wisconsin Supreme Court and spent $20 million of his own money flagrantly in public to do this.

And we just found out the good people of Wisconsin decided to help Elon redistribute his own wealth.

Who's the Marxist now?

What do you make of what we've just witnessed in this special election?

It's a really important and great moment for democracy that, you know, Elon was there.

He made this in many ways, a referendum, this judicial election, a referendum on himself.

And the people have spoken.

We don't want a billionaire to control,

not just our politics. Of course, we're seeing that in the Oval Office in Washington, D.C., literally

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