The Supreme Court Has Sold Out the Constitution and the Rule of Law to Reward a Lawless Trump, and Now The Republican Legislative Branch is Selling Out Their Constituents to Reward the Super-Rich
We begin with a one-two punch against American democracy with the Supreme Court selling out the Constitution and the rule of law to reward a lawless Trump for defying court orders while the Republican-controlled legislative branch is engaged in the biggest transfer of wealth from working Americans to the ultra-rich, selling out their constituents as they rush to give their “dear leader” his “big, beautiful bill,” which he wants done before July 4th. Joining us is Corey Brettschneider, a professor of political science at Brown University, where he teaches constitutional law and politics, as well as visiting professor of law at Fordham Law School. He is the co-host of the Podcast “The Oath and The Office” and the author of The Oath and the Office: A Guide to the Constitution for Future Presidents and Decisions and Dissents of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg: A Selection. His latest book is The Presidents and the People: Five Leaders Who Threatened Democracy and the Citizens Who Fought to Defend It.
From Authoritarianism to Totalitarianism as Trump Erases the Distinction Between Civil Society and the State
Then, as Trump and the MAGA Republicans move towards the principal goal of the totalitarian project: erasing the distinction between civil society and the state, we speak with with Mike Lofgren, who formerly spent twenty-eight years working in Congress as a Republican aide, sixteen of which as a senior analyst on the House and Senate Budget committees. He is the author of the New York Times Bestseller, The Party Is Over: How Republicans Went Crazy, Democrats Became Useless and the Middle Class Got Shafted. His latest article at Salon we will discuss is “America slides into totalitarianism – and it won’t be easy to reverse.”
Signs That Iran Was Not “Obliterated” and Could Quickly Resume Their Nuclear Program
Then finally we investigate signs emerging from Iran that they could quickly resume their nuclear program while the regime cracks down on dissent and speak with Assal Rad, whose generation of young and educated Iranians have protested the regime with the “Woman, Life and Freedom” campaign only to be brutally repressed. She is a scholar of Middle East history, a Nonresident Fellow at DAWN, a Nonresident Fellow at the Arab Center in Washington DC and the former Research Director of the National Iranian American Council. She is the author of The State of Resistance: Politics, Culture, and Identity in Modern Iran.