Day: September 8, 2025

A Major TV Network Caves Again, Censoring Trump Protests at the US Open Men’s Tennis Final

We begin looking into how the mainstream press and the TV networks are caving in to Trump following ABC’s censorship of protests at Sunday’s US Open Men’s Tennis final at which Trump was repeatedly booed by the crowd. Joining us is Anne Nelson, an author and lecturer in the fields of international affairs, media and human rights who was the director of the international program at the Columbia School of Journalism where she created the first curriculum in human rights reporting. Her books include Red Orchestra: The Berlin Underground and the Circle of Friends Who Resisted Hitler and Shadow Network: Media, Money, and the Secret Hub of the Radical Right, now out in an updated paperback version. The new film BAD FAITH: Christian Nationalism’s War on Democracy based on her book Shadow Network is streaming on Amazon Prime, YouTube and other platforms.

The Growing Rift Between the Supreme Court and the Lower Courts

Then, we look into today’s Supreme Court stay on a ruling by a Federal Judge that prohibited ICE agents from “blatant racial profiling” freeing up roving bands of masked ICE agents to target Latinos which they are doing with increasing intensity largely in Democratic-controlled cities. Joining us to discuss the growing rift between the Supreme Court and the lower courts is Bruce Fein, a constitutional lawyer who formerly served as Associate Deputy Attorney General under the Reagan administration, general counsel of the Federal Communications Commission, research director for the Joint Congressional Committee on Covert Arms Sales to Iran, and member of the American Bar Association’s Task Force on Presidential signing statements. He has authored several volumes on the United States Supreme Court, the United States Constitution, and international law, and helped write the articles of impeachment for President Nixon and President Clinton. His books include Constitutional Peril: the Life and Death Struggle for Our Constitution and Democracy, American Empire: Before The Fall and, most recently, Congressional Surrender and Presidential Overreach.

A Chicagoan Manning the Barricades Ahead of Trump’s “Invasion” in His War on Chicago

Then finally, ahead of Trump’s “invasion” of Chicago after declaring war on the city, we speak with Rick Perlstein, the author of the New York Times bestseller The Invisible Bridge: The Fall of Nixon and the Rise of Reagan; Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America, a New York Times bestseller and Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus. He is currently a contributor to the American Prospect and a contributing editor and board member of In These Times magazine, and his latest book is Reaganland: America’s Right Turn 1976-1980.