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Historian Heather Cox Richardson on Trump’s “Authoritarian Experiment”
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Historian Heather Cox Richardson on Trump’s “Authoritarian Experiment”

With Trump squaring off against the federal court system, which has attempted to block some of his actions, we look at the state of the judiciary branch.

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March 19, 202520m 16s

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Show Notes

With Trump squaring off against the federal court system, which has attempted to block some of his actions, we look at the state of the judiciary branch.

On Today's Show:
Heather Cox Richardson, professor of American history at Boston College and author of "Letters from an American" on Substack and several books, including Democracy Awakening: Notes on the State of America (Viking, 2023), offers a historian's take on the first weeks of the second Trump presidency.

Topics

democracynational_newsrule_of_lawauthoritarianismexecutive_actiontrumppoliticsjudgesjudiciarywhite_housenewscourts