This is Brian Lairr's Daily Politics podcast from WNYC Studios.

It's Friday, February 7th.

I'm Tiffany Hanson, filling in for Brian today.

President Trump has issued a raft of executive orders during his first week

in office on everything from border policy to foreign policy to the language used by federal

agencies when talking about gender and sexual orientation. Almost immediately, many of those

orders have been challenged in court. Here's what's happened just in the last

couple of days. Yesterday, New York Attorney General Letitia James signaled that she would sue the

Trump administration over access. He has given to billionaire Elon Musk that allowed Musk to

view private data of American citizens. Also yesterday, a federal judge in

Massachusetts suspended the deadline for federal workers to apply for a delayed resignation. A hearing is

said in that case for Monday. And last night, we also learned that a pair of unions representing the

workers at USAID are suing the administration over

its effort to dismantle the agency. Oh, but that's not all. There are lawsuits currently working

through the courts, including one challenging the Trump administration's moved to end

birthright citizenship with us to talk about all of these challenges and their future in the courts

is Stephen

Vladick, a professor at Georgetown University Law Center. Good morning, Stephen. Welcome back.

Morning, Tiffany. Good to be with you. Listeners, of course, Stephen and I would love you in this

conversation as well. Do you have questions about the legal process involved in some of these

ongoing challenges? Are you involved as a plaintiff in any of these cases, or perhaps you're an attorney who has

some insights you could share with us regarding the legality of these executive orders

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