Day: September 30, 2026

How John Roberts Has Increased the Power of the Criminal in Charge of the Executive Branch While Weakening the Judicial Branch Whose Rulings Trump Ignores

We begin with an assessment of how much Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts’ successful crusade to increase executive power via his push for a unitary executive now in the criminal hands of Donald Trump is weakening the judicial branch as Trump ignores rulings from US District Judges. Joining us is Lisa Graves, one of the nation’s foremost experts on the right-wing influence on the US Supreme Court and other levers of power. She leads True North Research and co-hosts Legal AF and has served as a senior advisor in all three branches of the federal government, as Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the Justice Department, as Chief Counsel for Nominations on the Senate Judiciary Committee, and as a Deputy Chief of the article 3 judges division for the U.S. Courts. She is the author of the new book, Without Precedent: How Chief Justice Roberts and His Accomplices Rewrote the Constitution and Dismantled Our Rights.

The 6 Far Right Supreme Court Justices Just Allowed Stephen Miller to Continue Sending Deportees to a Cruel Fate in Third Countries

Then we look into the fate of ICE deportees sent to third countries they have no ties to now that the Supreme Court has upheld this cruel program headed by the Trump Administration’s co-president Stephen Miller. Joining us is Isabella Mosselmans, the Director of the Global Strategic Litigation Council for Refugee Rights at the Zolberg Institute on Migration and Mobility, at the New School in New York.

After 23 Years the US Leaves a Strategic Vacuum in Iraq That Iran is Likely to Fill

Then finally with the US leaving Iraq after 23 years creating a strategic vacuum that Iran is likely to fill, we discuss the fate of the Kurds in Northern Iraq. Joining us is Dan Grazier, a defense analyst whose work focuses on military doctrine, organization, and technology. A former Marine Corps captain who served tours of duty in Iraq and Afghanistan during the War on Terror, we discuss his article at Responsible Statecraft “Goodnight Baghdad. US troops leave Iraq after 23 years.”