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Punchbowl News Senior Congressional Reporter Andrew Desiderio joins Anna Palmer to talk about his interview with a leading voice in the future of medicine, Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.). The chair of the Senate Health Committee discussed Medicaid and drug pricing among other issues in health care. Want more in-depth daily coverage from Congress? Subscribe to our free Punchbowl News AM newsletter at punchbowl.news. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
On the fifty-ninth episode of the Constitutionalist, Ben and Matthew discuss Volume 1, Part 2, Chapter 7 of Alexis De Tocqueville's "Democracy in America" on the omnipotence of the majority. They discuss Tocqueville's warnings of the detrimental effects of democracy on the citizen. We want to hear from you! Constitutionalistpod@gmail.com The Constitutionalist is proud to be sponsored by the Jack Miller Center for Teaching America's Founding Principles and History. For the last twenty years, JMC has been working to preserve and promote that tradition through a variety of programs at the college and K-12 levels. Through their American Political Tradition Project, JMC has partnered with more than 1,000 scholars at over 300 college campuses across the country, especially through their annual Summer Institutes for graduate students and recent PhDs. The Jack Miller Center is also working with thousands of K-12 educators across the country to help them better understand America's founding principles and history and teach them effectively, to better educate the next generation of citizens. JMC has provided thousands of hours of professional development for teachers all over the country, reaching millions of students with improved civic learning. If you care about American education and civic responsibility, you'll want to check out their work, which focuses on reorienting our institutions of learning around America's founding principles. To learn more or get involved, visit jackmillercenter.org. The Constitutionalist is a podcast co-hosted by Professor Benjamin Kleinerman, the RW Morrison Professor of Political Science at Baylor University and Founder and Editor of The Constitutionalist Blog, Shane Leary, a graduate student at Baylor University, and Dr. Matthew Reising, a John and Daria Barry Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Princeton University. Each week, they discuss political news in light of its constitutional implications, and explore a unique constitutional topic, ranging from the thoughts and experiences of America's founders and statesmen, historical episodes, and the broader philosophic ideas that influence the American experiment in government.
Spending a little time with Senator Bill Cassidy talking school choice and his letter to President Trump about flood insurance.
* Breaking down the Saints 2025 schedule * Senator Bill Cassidy on school choice and his letter to President Trump about flood insurance
* Insurance Commissioner Tim Temple on the "fleecing of Louisiana" * This state rep. wants to address misleading ads by attorneys * Breaking down the Saints 2025 schedule game-by-game * We warned about screwworms last week & they're back in the news now * Mid-Barataria project supporters are pushing for action, plans for future * Sen. Bill Cassidy on pressing Trump on flood insurance, school choice, more
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On the fifty-eighth episode, Shane, Matthew, and Ben are joined by William B. Allen, Professor Emeritus of Political Philosophy at Michigan State University, to discuss Montesquieu's political philosophy and its influence on the American Founding and eighteenth-century British politics. We want to hear from you! Constitutionalistpod@gmail.com The Constitutionalist is proud to be sponsored by the Jack Miller Center for Teaching America's Founding Principles and History. For the last twenty years, JMC has been working to preserve and promote that tradition through a variety of programs at the college and K-12 levels. Through their American Political Tradition Project, JMC has partnered with more than 1,000 scholars at over 300 college campuses across the country, especially through their annual Summer Institutes for graduate students and recent PhDs. The Jack Miller Center is also working with thousands of K-12 educators across the country to help them better understand America's founding principles and history and teach them effectively, to better educate the next generation of citizens. JMC has provided thousands of hours of professional development for teachers all over the country, reaching millions of students with improved civic learning. If you care about American education and civic responsibility, you'll want to check out their work, which focuses on reorienting our institutions of learning around America's founding principles. To learn more or get involved, visit jackmillercenter.org. The Constitutionalist is a podcast cohosted by Professor Benjamin Kleinerman, the RW Morrison Professor of Political Science at Baylor University and Founder and Editor of The Constitutionalist Blog, Shane Leary, a graduate student at Baylor University, and Dr. Matthew K. Reising, a John and Daria Barry Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Princeton University. Each week, they discuss political news in light of its constitutional implications, and explore a unique constitutional topic, ranging from the thoughts and experiences of America's founders and statesmen, historical episodes, and the broader philosophic ideas that influence the American experiment in government.
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In this clip, Louisiana Senator Bill Cassidy speaks at the 2025 Employee Ownership Ideas Forum. For additional resources, visit our website: https://www.aspeninstitute.org/videos/louisiana-senator-bill-cassidy-speaks-at-the-2025-employee-ownership-ideas-forum/Or subscribe to our podcast and listen on the go: https://creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/aspeneop/For other session videos, visit the Aspen Institute Economic Opportunities Program on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@aspeneopThe 2025 Employee Ownership Ideas Forum took place on April 9-10, 2025, virtually and in Washington DC. The Forum is proudly co-hosted by the Aspen Institute Economic Opportunities Program and the Institute for the Study of Employee Ownership and Profit Sharing at Rutgers University.This year's theme, “From Workers to Owners,” highlights how the experience of ownership changes the reality of work for workers. The forum highlights companies in a range of business sectors and explores how employee ownership fits their business strategy and approach to business leadership. We also discuss the particular role employee ownership can play in supporting business success, and we consider the role institutional investors can play in improving capital access for employee ownership conversions and expansions.For more information about the Employee Ownership Ideas Forum, including our speakers, agenda, and additional resources, visit our website: https://www.aspeninstitute.org/events/employee-ownership-ideas-forum-2025/
Once again, the venerable 340B Drug Pricing Program finds itself in the crosshairs of critics – this time, from the U.S. Congress.Recently, Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, released a report outlining his office's investigation into the program.During the next live edition of Monitor Mondays, 340B Health CEO Maureen Testoni will return to the broadcast to offer her response to the senator's investigation.The long-running broadcast will also include these instantly recognizable features:• Monday Rounds: Ronald Hirsch, MD, vice president of R1 RCM, will be making his Monday Rounds.• The RAC Report: Healthcare attorney Knicole Emanuel, partner at the law firm of Nelson Mullins, will report the latest news about auditors.• Risky Business: Healthcare attorney David Glaser, shareholder in the law offices of Fredrikson & Byron, will join the broadcast with his trademark segment.• Legislative Update: Cate Brantley, senior healthcare government affairs analyst for Zelis, will report on the news at the intersection of healthcare and congressional action.
2:30 From 9/11 Truther to Tattoo Truther: CON-servative Mocks Those Who Expose Knuckleheaded IgnoranceWATCH cynical sycophant Scott Jennings lie about his clueless leader as Reason gives other examples and asks “how will we know if Trump is senile?” 24:49 Trump Crowned a WEF Demon in CanadaTrump came out of the closet in support the World Economic Forum's elite central banker of central bankers Mark Carney—more dangerous than Klaus Schwab himself—to seize Canada's helm. 29:36 Trump and His Influencers Push Suspending Habeas CorpusAll the best presidents do it, we're told. Problem/solution. Rinse/repeat 38:27 A Cabinet of Sycophants, A Ship of Fools To celebrate his first 100 days, WATCH Trump's top brass grovel at his feet, showering him with praise while unveiling a reckless agenda as Rubio boasts they don't bother with studies — warp speed ahead! 42:34 Cabinet Member's Plans Show WHY Washington Won't Be FixedAn example of how we've lost the plot — of the Founders. From half-hearted CAFE standard cuts to swapping Biden's carbon tax for Trump's crippling 25% steel tariff, the Dept of Transportation is just one example of the uni-party plot to centrally control Americans with federal money under the guise of “following the law.” 54:20 New AG Secretary is Doubling Down on Egg Subsidies Even as DOJ Investigates the Cartel for Price Fixing Prepare to be shell-shocked by a scandal that cracks open the rotten core of Trump's agricultural policy! Brooke Rollins, the USDA Secretary, gloats about lower egg prices while hiding a sinister truth: Big Egg companies like Cal-Maine are raking in record profits and taxpayer-funded bailouts after the senseless slaughter of 110 million chickens under a bogus “bird flu” pretext. So what is she doing about it? The WRONG thing 1:01:04 Fowl Play: USDA's Chicken Massacre vs. the Wild Geese Explosion The USDA show be tarred and feathered for slaughtering 110 MILLION chickens for “bird flu” nonsense. We're told that there must be more “bio-security”, code for mRNA jabs, yet wild geese and pigeons thrive with Michigan's exploding goose populations facing gas chambers 1:18:17 Senate CommitteePushes Back on “Antisemitism Awareness” Censorship The Antisemitism Awareness Act, a chilling scheme led by vaccine-shilling, free-speech-hating Senator Bill Cassidy to silence criticism of Israel. Cassidy, a pawn of BigPharma and foreign interests, pushes censorship legislation to protect Israel's actions in Gaza while protecting BigPharma from scrutiny. Has Israel's continued attacks on civilians turned public opinion against Netanyahu's government? 1:31:19 LIVE audience comments 1:33:48 Dr. Phil and Mike Lee Expose the Federal Hijacking of Both State Power and Religious Freedom As the Supreme Court considers arguments about whether a state can get public funding to a religious school, Dr. Phil exposes how the Supreme Court twisted the Establishment Clause to crush state power and individual religious freedoms in a war on Christian values. Do states have the power to fund religious schools? Should they? 1:42:16 AI's Corporate Classroom Conspiracy OR God's Gift of Freedom: Homeschool Celebrate the divine gift of homeschooling. Don't settle for your kids getting a “gold star” from an AI instructor pushing Common Core, DEI, CRT, LGBT! Trump and corporations want you in on the latest fad as corporate money-making franchises spring up. It's interesting that ALL the benefits touted by this “AI school” are REAL benefits of homeschooling! Embrace the God-given right to raise your children in truth! 1:59:21 World on the Brink: War Drums, Economic Collapse, Supply Chain, Media Circus of Lies Gerald Celente of TrendsJournal.com unleashes a fiery takedown of fluff-filled ‘news' like Breitbart's 71-page Melania Trump fashion show to the New York Times' picture-book business section, journalism is DEAD—replaced by corporate propaganda and war-mongering lies. The Decline of Mainstream JournalismGlobal War and Geopolitical TensionsGold Prices and Economic InstabilityCrony Capitalism of U.S. Foreign PolicyThe Vietnam War and Lessons Ignored Discover why Trends Journal is your last bastion of truth in a world drowning in ‘slime' and deception—subscribe now and save 10% with code KNIGHTIf you would like to support the show and our family please consider subscribing monthly here: SubscribeStar https://www.subscribestar.com/the-david-knight-show Or you can send a donation through Mail: David Knight POB 994 Kodak, TN 37764 Zelle: @DavidKnightShow@protonmail.comCash App at: $davidknightshowBTC to: bc1qkuec29hkuye4xse9unh7nptvu3y9qmv24vanh7 Money should have intrinsic value AND transactional privacy: Go to DavidKnight.gold for great deals on physical gold/silver For 10% off Gerald Celente's prescient Trends Journal, go to TrendsJournal.com and enter the code KNIGHT For 10% off supplements and books, go to RNCstore.com and enter the code KNIGHTBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-david-knight-show--2653468/support.
2:30 From 9/11 Truther to Tattoo Truther: CON-servative Mocks Those Who Expose Knuckleheaded IgnoranceWATCH cynical sycophant Scott Jennings lie about his clueless leader as Reason gives other examples and asks “how will we know if Trump is senile?” 24:49 Trump Crowned a WEF Demon in CanadaTrump came out of the closet in support the World Economic Forum's elite central banker of central bankers Mark Carney—more dangerous than Klaus Schwab himself—to seize Canada's helm. 29:36 Trump and His Influencers Push Suspending Habeas CorpusAll the best presidents do it, we're told. Problem/solution. Rinse/repeat 38:27 A Cabinet of Sycophants, A Ship of Fools To celebrate his first 100 days, WATCH Trump's top brass grovel at his feet, showering him with praise while unveiling a reckless agenda as Rubio boasts they don't bother with studies — warp speed ahead! 42:34 Cabinet Member's Plans Show WHY Washington Won't Be FixedAn example of how we've lost the plot — of the Founders. From half-hearted CAFE standard cuts to swapping Biden's carbon tax for Trump's crippling 25% steel tariff, the Dept of Transportation is just one example of the uni-party plot to centrally control Americans with federal money under the guise of “following the law.” 54:20 New AG Secretary is Doubling Down on Egg Subsidies Even as DOJ Investigates the Cartel for Price Fixing Prepare to be shell-shocked by a scandal that cracks open the rotten core of Trump's agricultural policy! Brooke Rollins, the USDA Secretary, gloats about lower egg prices while hiding a sinister truth: Big Egg companies like Cal-Maine are raking in record profits and taxpayer-funded bailouts after the senseless slaughter of 110 million chickens under a bogus “bird flu” pretext. So what is she doing about it? The WRONG thing 1:01:04 Fowl Play: USDA's Chicken Massacre vs. the Wild Geese Explosion The USDA show be tarred and feathered for slaughtering 110 MILLION chickens for “bird flu” nonsense. We're told that there must be more “bio-security”, code for mRNA jabs, yet wild geese and pigeons thrive with Michigan's exploding goose populations facing gas chambers 1:18:17 Senate CommitteePushes Back on “Antisemitism Awareness” Censorship The Antisemitism Awareness Act, a chilling scheme led by vaccine-shilling, free-speech-hating Senator Bill Cassidy to silence criticism of Israel. Cassidy, a pawn of BigPharma and foreign interests, pushes censorship legislation to protect Israel's actions in Gaza while protecting BigPharma from scrutiny. Has Israel's continued attacks on civilians turned public opinion against Netanyahu's government? 1:31:19 LIVE audience comments 1:33:48 Dr. Phil and Mike Lee Expose the Federal Hijacking of Both State Power and Religious Freedom As the Supreme Court considers arguments about whether a state can get public funding to a religious school, Dr. Phil exposes how the Supreme Court twisted the Establishment Clause to crush state power and individual religious freedoms in a war on Christian values. Do states have the power to fund religious schools? Should they? 1:42:16 AI's Corporate Classroom Conspiracy OR God's Gift of Freedom: Homeschool Celebrate the divine gift of homeschooling. Don't settle for your kids getting a “gold star” from an AI instructor pushing Common Core, DEI, CRT, LGBT! Trump and corporations want you in on the latest fad as corporate money-making franchises spring up. It's interesting that ALL the benefits touted by this “AI school” are REAL benefits of homeschooling! Embrace the God-given right to raise your children in truth! 1:59:21 World on the Brink: War Drums, Economic Collapse, Supply Chain, Media Circus of Lies Gerald Celente of TrendsJournal.com unleashes a fiery takedown of fluff-filled ‘news' like Breitbart's 71-page Melania Trump fashion show to the New York Times' picture-book business section, journalism is DEAD—replaced by corporate propaganda and war-mongering lies. The Decline of Mainstream JournalismGlobal War and Geopolitical TensionsGold Prices and Economic InstabilityCrony Capitalism of U.S. Foreign PolicyThe Vietnam War and Lessons Ignored Discover why Trends Journal is your last bastion of truth in a world drowning in ‘slime' and deception—subscribe now and save 10% with code KNIGHTIf you would like to support the show and our family please consider subscribing monthly here: SubscribeStar https://www.subscribestar.com/the-david-knight-show Or you can send a donation through Mail: David Knight POB 994 Kodak, TN 37764 Zelle: @DavidKnightShow@protonmail.comCash App at: $davidknightshowBTC to: bc1qkuec29hkuye4xse9unh7nptvu3y9qmv24vanh7 Money should have intrinsic value AND transactional privacy: Go to DavidKnight.gold for great deals on physical gold/silver For 10% off Gerald Celente's prescient Trends Journal, go to TrendsJournal.com and enter the code KNIGHT For 10% off supplements and books, go to RNCstore.com and enter the code KNIGHTBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-real-david-knight-show--5282736/support.
* Could tariffs cause shortages and empty shelves at stores? Some are saying we could see that in on a small scale in a few weeks. * We'll check in with Senator Bill Cassidy about getting a budget passed, President Trump's first 100 days, and getting more investments for Louisiana.
Tommy talks with Sen. Bill Cassidy about tariffs, flood insurance, fentanyl, and more
Louisiana Senator Bill Cassidy (R) is leading the fight against anti-Semitism on college and university campuses across the country. Senator Cassidy is the chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee which will bring up for consideration the ''Antisemitism Awareness Act' and another piece of legislation to fight anti-Semitism. Senator Cassidy has been very critical of how schools have responded to the rise in anti-Israel protests since the October 7th terror attack by Hamas. FOX's Ryan Schmelz speaks with Senator Bill Cassidy (R-LA), the chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee, about the legislation the HELP Committee is proposing and he shares with us his feelings on what has been accomplished by the administration in their first three months. Click Here To Follow 'The FOX News Rundown: Evening Edition' Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Louisiana Senator Bill Cassidy (R) is leading the fight against anti-Semitism on college and university campuses across the country. Senator Cassidy is the chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee which will bring up for consideration the ''Antisemitism Awareness Act' and another piece of legislation to fight anti-Semitism. Senator Cassidy has been very critical of how schools have responded to the rise in anti-Israel protests since the October 7th terror attack by Hamas. FOX's Ryan Schmelz speaks with Senator Bill Cassidy (R-LA), the chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee, about the legislation the HELP Committee is proposing and he shares with us his feelings on what has been accomplished by the administration in their first three months. Click Here To Follow 'The FOX News Rundown: Evening Edition' Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Louisiana Senator Bill Cassidy (R) is leading the fight against anti-Semitism on college and university campuses across the country. Senator Cassidy is the chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee which will bring up for consideration the ''Antisemitism Awareness Act' and another piece of legislation to fight anti-Semitism. Senator Cassidy has been very critical of how schools have responded to the rise in anti-Israel protests since the October 7th terror attack by Hamas. FOX's Ryan Schmelz speaks with Senator Bill Cassidy (R-LA), the chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee, about the legislation the HELP Committee is proposing and he shares with us his feelings on what has been accomplished by the administration in their first three months. Click Here To Follow 'The FOX News Rundown: Evening Edition' Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
On the fifty-seventh episode of the Constitutionalist, Shane and Matthew discuss Volume 1, Chapter 2 of Alexis De Tocqueville's "Democracy in America." We want to hear from you! Constitutionalistpod@gmail.com The Constitutionalist is proud to be sponsored by the Jack Miller Center for Teaching America's Founding Principles and History. For the last twenty years, JMC has been working to preserve and promote that tradition through a variety of programs at the college and K-12 levels. Through their American Political Tradition Project, JMC has partnered with more than 1,000 scholars at over 300 college campuses across the country, especially through their annual Summer Institutes for graduate students and recent PhDs. The Jack Miller Center is also working with thousands of K-12 educators across the country to help them better understand America's founding principles and history and teach them effectively, to better educate the next generation of citizens. JMC has provided thousands of hours of professional development for teachers all over the country, reaching millions of students with improved civic learning. If you care about American education and civic responsibility, you'll want to check out their work, which focuses on reorienting our institutions of learning around America's founding principles. To learn more or get involved, visit jackmillercenter.org. The Constitutionalist is a podcast co-hosted by Professor Benjamin Kleinerman, the RW Morrison Professor of Political Science at Baylor University and Founder and Editor of The Constitutionalist Blog, Shane Leary, a graduate student at Baylor University, and Dr. Matthew Reising, a John and Daria Barry Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Princeton University. Each week, they discuss political news in light of its constitutional implications, and explore a unique constitutional topic, ranging from the thoughts and experiences of America's founders and statesmen, historical episodes, and the broader philosophic ideas that influence the American experiment in government.
The 2026 midterm elections are a long way away, but millions of dollars are already flowing into the Senate race as incumbent GOP Sen. Bill Cassidy faces a challenge from fellow Republican State Treasurer John Fleming.Greg LaRose, editor-in-chief for the Louisiana Illuminator, tells us more about what this race says about Cassidy's vulnerability.Under a new Louisiana law, thousands of inmates can no longer plead their cases to a parole board. This is thanks to a computerized scoring system adopted by the Department of Public Safety and Corrections, which ranks an inmate's risk of reoffending. Calvin Alexander, a 70-year-old and nearly blind inmate is no longer eligible to speak before a parole board. Verite's Richard Webster tells us more about Alexander and the thousands of other inmates whose cases are in limbo.Following heavy rainfall in the Ohio River Valley, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has activated proactive flood fight protocols as water from upstream swells the Mississippi River. State climatologist Jay Grymes tells us how residents should best prepare for potential flooding.—Today's episode of Louisiana Considered was hosted by Karen Henderson. Our managing producer is Alana Schreiber. We receive production and technical support from Garrett Pittman, Adam Vos and our assistant producer, Aubry Procell. You can listen to Louisiana Considered Monday through Friday at noon and 7 p.m. It's available on Spotify, the NPR App and wherever you get your podcasts. Louisiana Considered wants to hear from you! Please fill out our pitch line to let us know what kinds of story ideas you have for our show. And while you're at it, fill out our listener survey! We want to keep bringing you the kinds of conversations you'd like to listen to.Louisiana Considered is made possible with support from our listeners. Thank you!
On the fifty-sixth episode of the Constitutionalist, Shane, Ben, and Matthew discuss Federalist 37, and Madison's teachings on political and epistemological limits. We want to hear from you! Constitutionalistpod@gmail.com The Constitutionalist is proud to be sponsored by the Jack Miller Center for Teaching America's Founding Principles and History. For the last twenty years, JMC has been working to preserve and promote that tradition through a variety of programs at the college and K-12 levels. Through their American Political Tradition Project, JMC has partnered with more than 1,000 scholars at over 300 college campuses across the country, especially through their annual Summer Institutes for graduate students and recent PhDs. The Jack Miller Center is also working with thousands of K-12 educators across the country to help them better understand America's founding principles and history and teach them effectively, to better educate the next generation of citizens. JMC has provided thousands of hours of professional development for teachers all over the country, reaching millions of students with improved civic learning. If you care about American education and civic responsibility, you'll want to check out their work, which focuses on reorienting our institutions of learning around America's founding principles. To learn more or get involved, visit jackmillercenter.org. The Constitutionalist is a podcast co-hosted by Professor Benjamin Kleinerman, the RW Morrison Professor of Political Science at Baylor University and Founder and Editor of The Constitutionalist Blog, Shane Leary, a graduate student at Baylor University, and Dr. Matthew Reising, a John and Daria Barry Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Princeton University. Each week, they discuss political news in light of its constitutional implications, and explore a unique constitutional topic, ranging from the thoughts and experiences of America's founders and statesmen, historical episodes, and the broader philosophic ideas that influence the American experiment in government.
On this week's episode, Chris Garabedian, Brad Loncar, Eric Schmidt, Paul Matteis, and Tess Cameron begin by recapping the markets, highlighting the rise in bond yields. The discussion then transitions to the efficiency of the FDA, noting its current overextension. Next, the group addresses an open letter from biotech executives and investors to Senator Bill Cassidy, highlighting the dismissal of key employees important to FDA review processes. Park Marks' dismissal is also revisited, along with the impending threat of pharmaceutical tariffs. Wrapping up the discussion on the FDA, its initiative to replace animal testing is overviewed. The conversation shifts to “zombie” biotechs and ongoing private investment, as evidenced by recent Series A announcements. On the data front, Lexeo's plans to initiate a registrational trial for its gene therapy for Friedreich ataxia, Rhythm's Phase 3 data, and its stock price increase are discussed. The group also reviews the strategies early companies can adopt now that the IPO window has closed. The episode concludes with a review of notable updates from AAN 2025 and ADPD 2025. *This episode aired on April 11, 2025.
Purchase Professor Rasmussen's book here.We want to hear from you! Constitutionalistpod@gmail.com The Constitutionalist is proud to be sponsored by the Jack Miller Center for Teaching America's Founding Principles and History. For the last twenty years, JMC has been working to preserve and promote that tradition through a variety of programs at the college and K-12 levels. Through their American Political Tradition Project, JMC has partnered with more than 1,000 scholars at over 300 college campuses across the country, especially through their annual Summer Institutes for graduate students and recent PhDs. The Jack Miller Center is also working with thousands of K-12 educators across the country to help them better understand America's founding principles and history and teach them effectively, to better educate the next generation of citizens. JMC has provided thousands of hours of professional development for teachers all over the country, reaching millions of students with improved civic learning. If you care about American education and civic responsibility, you'll want to check out their work, which focuses on reorienting our institutions of learning around America's founding principles. To learn more or get involved, visit jackmillercenter.org.The Constitutionalist is a podcast cohosted by Professor Benjamin Kleinerman, the RW Morrison Professor of Political Science at Baylor University and Founder and Editor of The Constitutionalist Blog, Shane Leary, a graduate student at Baylor University, and Dr. Matthew Reising, a John and Daria Barry Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Princeton University. Each week, they discuss political news in light of its constitutional implications, and explore a unique constitutional topic, ranging from the thoughts and experiences of America's founders and statesmen, historical episodes, and the broader philosophic ideas that influence the American experiment in government.
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On the fifty-fourth episode of the Constitutionalist, Shane, Ben, and Matthew discuss the arguments of Martin Diamond and Herbert Storing in favor of preserving the Electoral College, presented to the Subcommittee on the Constitution of the Senate Judiciary Committee in July 1977. The readings may be accessed here: Martin Diamond: http://www.electoralcollegehistory.com/electoral/docs/diamond.pdf Herbert Storing (Chapter 21 in this volume): https://www.aei.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/-toward-a-more-perfect-union_154408483501.pdf?x85095 We want to hear from you! Constitutionalistpod@gmail.com The Constitutionalist is proud to be sponsored by the Jack Miller Center for Teaching America's Founding Principles and History. For the last twenty years, JMC has been working to preserve and promote that tradition through a variety of programs at the college and K-12 levels. Through their American Political Tradition Project, JMC has partnered with more than 1,000 scholars at over 300 college campuses across the country, especially through their annual Summer Institutes for graduate students and recent PhDs. The Jack Miller Center is also working with thousands of K-12 educators across the country to help them better understand America's founding principles and history and teach them effectively, to better educate the next generation of citizens. JMC has provided thousands of hours of professional development for teachers all over the country, reaching millions of students with improved civic learning. If you care about American education and civic responsibility, you'll want to check out their work, which focuses on reorienting our institutions of learning around America's founding principles. To learn more or get involved, visit jackmillercenter.org. The Constitutionalist is a podcast co-hosted by Professor Benjamin Kleinerman, the RW Morrison Professor of Political Science at Baylor University and Founder and Editor of The Constitutionalist Blog, Shane Leary, a graduate student at Baylor University, and Dr. Matthew Reising, a John and Daria Barry Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Princeton University. Each week, they discuss political news in light of its constitutional implications, and explore a unique constitutional topic, ranging from the thoughts and experiences of America's founders and statesmen, historical episodes, and the broader philosophic ideas that influence the American experiment in government.
Reciprocal Tariffs: President Trump announced new reciprocal tariffs on various countries, aiming to counteract the tariffs these countries impose on the U.S. Examples include China (67% tariffs on the U.S.), European Union (39%), Vietnam (90%), Taiwan (64%), Japan (46%), and India (52%). Economic Independence: Trump described this day as a declaration of economic independence, emphasizing the rebirth of American industry and the reclamation of America's destiny. He highlighted the suffering of American workers due to unfair trade practices and promised that these new tariffs would protect and prioritize American manufacturing and jobs. Support from Various Groups: Several industry groups expressed support for Trump's trade policies, including the Coalition for a Prosperous America, National Cattleman's Beef Association, Steel Manufacturers Association, Alliance for American Manufacturing, and National Electrical Contractors Association. These groups praised the tariffs for protecting American jobs, manufacturing, and economic security. Political Reactions: Various political figures, including Speaker Mike Johnson, Governor Jeff Landry, Senator Jim Banks, and Senator Bill Cassidy, supported the tariffs, emphasizing their benefits for American workers and industries. Media Criticism: Trump acknowledged that the media might portray these tariffs negatively, but he stressed the importance of standing up for American workers and ensuring fair trade practices. Please Hit Subscribe to this podcast Right Now. Also Please Subscribe to the Ben Ferguson Show Podcast and Verdict with Ted Cruz Wherever You get You're Podcasts. Thanks for Listening #seanhannity #hannity #marklevin #levin #charliekirk #megynkelly #tucker #tuckercarlson #glennbeck #benshapiro #shapiro #trump #sexton #bucksexton#rushlimbaugh #limbaugh #whitehouse #senate #congress #thehouse #democrats#republicans #conservative #senator #congressman #congressmen #congresswoman #capitol #president #vicepresident #POTUS #presidentoftheunitedstatesofamerica#SCOTUS #Supremecourt #DonaldTrump #PresidentDonaldTrump #DT #TedCruz #Benferguson #Verdict #maga #presidenttrump #47 #the47morningupdate #donaldtrump #trump #news #trumpnews #Benferguson #breaking #breakingnews #morningupdateYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@VerdictwithTedCruzSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Sam and Emma are joined by Rachel Cohen, lawyer formerly of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, to discuss the country's largest law firms bending the knee to Donald Trump. First, they run through updates on today's elections in Wisconsin and Florida, Trump's attack on the US public health regime, tomorrow's tariff deadline, the Senate GOP's budgetary sleight of hand, legal pushback to Trump over voting restrictions and his reclassification of protected Venezuelan migrants, Trump's ongoing renditioning of Latin Americans to an El Salvadorian gulag, the mobilization of far-right militia's to protect Musk's businesses, Trump's targeting of Harvard, Cory Booker's filibuster, and dwindling Canadian tourism to the US, also watching Jesse Watters explain exactly why he (and the rest of the right) doesn't care about due process. Rachel Cohen then dives Trump's successful effort to cow some of the biggest law firms in the US – including her former firm of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom – unpacking precisely what makes these law firms so “important” to Trump (wealthy clients, billions in profits), and the intimate relationship they have with the political elite, before walking through the actual contents of Trump's threats to these firms' contracts and access to federal buildings (e.g. courts), and why, unlike others, Skadden seemed to capitulate without even facing an Executive Order, including handing over $100m in pro-bono work to the administration. Expanding on this latter element, Cohen tackles the Trump Administration's underlying aims for this authoritarian push against these attorneys elite, with the push against DEI policies, the takeover of pro-bono work, and the Executive Orders chilling pushback to Trump's anti-migrant and anti-trans agenda coming at a time where he and his goons are undercutting due process for migrants and criminalizing trans identity. After touching on the mix of hubris and cowardice driving the executive capitulation in the world of corporate law, and what the internal pushback looks like among Cohen's peers, Rachel, Sam, and Emma wrap up by reemphasizing the real goal of Trump's project – a fascist takeover – and the importance of organized dissent. And in the Fun Half: Sam and Emma talk with Ronald Raygun about the precarious state of immigration law, dissect Elon Musk's blatant and manipulative lies about Social Security fraud, and watch as Sen. Bill Cassidy accidentally gets blunt about the GOP's plan to gut Medicare. Mike Lindell teases a run for the Governorship of Minnesota, and the MR Team dives deep into Ezra Klein's poor response to anti-Oligarchical critiques of his “Abundance” doctrine, plus, your calls and IMs! Become a member at JoinTheMajorityReport.com: https://fans.fm/majority/join Follow us on TikTok here!: https://www.tiktok.com/@majorityreportfm Check us out on Twitch here!: https://www.twitch.tv/themajorityreport Find our Rumble stream here!: https://rumble.com/user/majorityreport Check out our alt YouTube channel here!: https://www.youtube.com/majorityreportlive Gift a Majority Report subscription here: https://fans.fm/majority/gift Subscribe to the ESVN YouTube channel here: https://www.youtube.com/esvnshow Subscribe to the AMQuickie newsletter here: https://am-quickie.ghost.io/ Join the Majority Report Discord! https://majoritydiscord.com/ Get all your MR merch at our store: https://shop.majorityreportradio.com/ Get the free Majority Report App!: https://majority.fm/app Go to https://JustCoffee.coop and use coupon code majority to get 10% off your purchase! Check out today's sponsors: Liquid IV: Embrace your ritual with extraordinary hydration from Liquid I.V. Get 20% off your first order of Liquid I.V. when you go to https://LiquidIV.com and use code MAJORITYREP at checkout. That's 20% off your first order when you shop better hydration today using promo code MAJORITYREP at https://LiquidIV.com. Babbel: Let's get more of you talking in a new language. Babbel is gifting our listeners 60% off subscriptions at https://Babbel.com/MAJORITY. Get up to 60% off at https://Babbel.com/MAJORITY. Rules and restrictions may apply. Follow the Majority Report crew on Twitter: @SamSeder @EmmaVigeland @MattLech @BradKAlsop Check out Matt's show, Left Reckoning, on Youtube, and subscribe on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/leftreckoning Check out Matt Binder's YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/mattbinder Subscribe to Brandon's show The Discourse on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/ExpandTheDiscourse Check out Ava Raiza's music here! https://avaraiza.bandcamp.com/ The Majority Report with Sam Seder - https://majorityreportradio.com/
The reconciliation bill remains stalled in Congress. Senator Bill Cassidy (R- Louisiana) says the government must first reel in its “out-of-control” spending and debt to defend the American Dream. John Hope Bryant weighs in on why he believes financial literacy needs to be taught to every American at every education level. Plus, OpenAI closes a funding round at $40 billion, the largest private tech deal on record, Johnson & Johnson loses in court again in its bid to settle talc cases and shares of Newsmax surge for a second day after a massive IPO debut on Monday. Sen. Bill Cassidy - 16:57Kate Rooney - 28:22John Hope Bryant - 30:33 In this episode:Becky Quick, @BeckyQuickJoe Kernen, @JoeSquawkAndrew Ross Sorkin, @andrewrsorkinKatie Kramer, @Kramer_KatieBill Cassidy, @SenBillCassidyJohn Hope Bryant, @johnhopebryantKate Rooney, @Kr00ney
Ralph welcomes journalist Chris Hedges to talk about his new book "A Genocide Foretold: Reporting on Survival and Resistance in Occupied Palestine." Then, Ralph speaks to David Swanson of World BEYOND War about what his organization is doing to resist this country's casual acceptance of being constantly at war. Finally, Ralph checks in with our resident constitutional scholar Bruce Fein.Chris Hedges is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, who spent nearly two decades as a foreign correspondent in Central America, the Middle East, Africa and the Balkans. He is the host of The Chris Hedges Report, and he is a prolific author— his latest book is A Genocide Foretold: Reporting on Survival and Resistance in Occupied Palestine.We not only blocked the effort by most countries on the globe to halt the genocide or at least censure Israel to the genocide, but of course have continued to sendbillions of dollars in weapons and to shut down critics within the United States… And that sends a very, very ominous message to the global south, especiallyas the climate breaks down, that these are the kind of draconian murderous measuresthat we will employ.Chris HedgesIt's a very, very ominous chapter in the history of historic Palestine. In some ways, far worse even than the 1948 Nakba (or “Catastrophe”) that saw massacres carried out against Palestinians in their villages and 750,000 Palestinians displaced. What we're watching now is probably the worst catastrophe to ever beset the Palestinian people.Chris HedgesIt's a bit like attacking somebody for writing about Auschwitz and not giving the SS guards enough play to voice their side. We're writing about a genocide and, frankly, there isn't a lot of nuance. There's a lot of context (which is in the book). But I expect either to be blanked out or attacked because lifting up the voices of Palestinians is something at this point within American society that is considered by the dominant media platforms and those within positions of power to be unacceptable.Chris HedgesIt eventually comes down to us, the American people. And it's not just the Middle East. It's a sprawling empire with hundreds of military bases, sapping the energy of our public budgets and of our ability to relate in an empathetic and humanitarian way to the rest of the world.Ralph NaderDavid Swanson is an author, activist, journalist, radio host and Nobel Peace Prize nominee. He is executive director of World BEYOND War and campaign coordinator for RootsAction. His books include War Is A Lie and When the World Outlawed War.The biggest scandal of the past two days in the United States is not government officials secretly discussing plans for mass killing, for war making, but how they did it on a group chat. You can imagine if they were talking about blowing up buildings in the United States, at least the victims would get a little mention in there.David SwansonThe Democrats are the least popular they've been. They're way less popular than the Republicans because some of the Republicans' supporters actually support the horrendous behavior they're engaged in. Whereas Democrats want somebody to try anything, anything at all, and you're not getting it.David SwansonYou know how many cases across the world across the decades in every hospital and health center there are of PTSD or any sort of injury from war deprivation? Not a one. Not a single one, ever. People survive just fine. And people do their damnedest to stay out of it, even in the most warmongering nations in the world. People try their very hardest to stay out of war personally, because it does great damage.David SwansonBruce Fein is a Constitutional scholar and an expert on international law. Mr. Fein was Associate Deputy Attorney General under Ronald Reagan and he is the author of Constitutional Peril: The Life and Death Struggle for Our Constitution and Democracy, and American Empire: Before the Fall.If there were really an attorney general who was independent, they would advise the President, “You can't make these threats. They are the equivalent of extortion.”Bruce FeinVigorous Public Interest Law DayApril 1, 2025 12:00 pm - 4:00 pm at Harvard Law School the Harvard Plaintiffs' Law Association is hosting Vigorous Public Interest Law Day with opening remarks by Ralph Nader. The program will feature highly relevant presentations and group discussions with some of the nation's most courageous public interest lawyers including Sam Levine, Bruce Fein, Robert Weissman, Joan Claybrook, and Pete Davis, to name a few. More information here.News 3/26/251. Starting off this week with some good news, Families for Safe Streets reports the Viriginia Assembly has passed HB2096, also known as the Stop Super Speeders bill. If enacted, this bill would allow would judges to “require drivers convicted of extreme speeding offenses to install Intelligent Speed Assistance (ISA) technology in their vehicles, automatically limiting their speed to the posted limit.” According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration or NHTSA, established by Ralph Nader, speeding was responsible for 12,151 deaths in 2022 and is a contributing factor in the skyrocketing number of pedestrians killed by automobiles which hit a 40-year high in 2023, per NPR.2. In more troubling auto safety news AP reports NHTSA has ordered a new recall on nearly all Cybertrucks. This recall centers on an exterior panel that can “detach while driving, creating a dangerous road hazard for other drivers, [and] increasing the risk of a crash.” This panel, called a “cant rail assembly,” is attached with a glue that is vulnerable to “environmental embrittlement,” per NHTSA. This is the eighth recall of the vehicles since they hit the road just one year ago.3. At the same time, the Democratic-controlled Delaware state legislature has passed a bill to “award…Musk $56 billion, shield corporate executives from liability, and strip away voting power from shareholders,” reports the Lever. According to this report, written before the law passed, the bill would “set an extremely high bar for plaintiffs to obtain internal company documents, records, and communications — the core pieces of evidence needed to build a lawsuit against a company.” On the other hand, “Corporate executives and investors with a controlling stake in a firm would no longer be required to hold full shareholder votes on various transactions in which management has a direct conflict of interest.” As this piece notes, this bill was backed by a pressure campaign led by Musk and his lawyers that began with a Delaware Chancery Court ruling that jeopardized his $56 billion compensation package. In retaliation, Musk threatened to lead a mass exodus of corporations from the state. Instead of calling his bluff, the state legislature folded, likely beginning a race to the bottom among other corporate-friendly states that will strip anyone but the largest shareholders of any remaining influence on corporate decision making.4. Speaking of folding under pressure, Reuters reports Columbia University will “acquiesce” to the outrageous and unprecedented demands of the Trump administration. These include a new mask ban on campus, and placing the school's Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies department – along with the Center for Palestine Studies –under academic receivership for at least five years. By caving to these demands, the University hopes the administration will unfreeze $400 million in NIH grants they threatened to withhold. Reuters quotes historian of education, Professor Jonathan Zimmerman, who decried this as “The government…using the money as a cudgel to micromanage a university,” and Todd Wolfson, president of the American Association of University Professors, who called the administration's demands “arguably the greatest incursion into academic freedom, freedom of speech and institutional autonomy that we've seen since the McCarthy era.”5. The authoritarianism creeping through higher education doesn't end there. Following the chilling disappearing of Mahmoud Khalil, the Trump administration has begun deploying the same tactic against more students for increasingly minor supposed offenses. First there was Georgetown post-doc student Badar Khan Suri, originally from India, who “had been living in Virginia for nearly three years when the police knocked on his door on the evening of 17 March and arrested him,” per the BBC. His crime? Being married to the daughter of a former advisor to Ismail Haniyeh, who in 2010 left the Gaza government and “started the House of Wisdom…to encourage peace and conflict resolution in Gaza.” A court has blocked Suri's deportation. Then there is Rumeysa Ozturk, a PhD student at Tufts who was on her way home from an Iftar dinner when she was surrounded and physically restrained by plainclothes agents on the street, CNN reports. Video of this incident has been shared widely. Secretary of State Marco Rubio supposedly “determined” that Ozturk's alleged activities would have “potentially serious adverse foreign policy consequences and would compromise a compelling U.S. foreign policy interest.” These activities? Co-writing a March 2024 op-ed in the school paper which stated “Credible accusations against Israel include accounts of deliberate starvation and indiscriminate slaughter of Palestinian civilians and plausible genocide.” The U.S. has long decried regimes that use secret police to suppress dissident speech. Now it seems it has become one.6. Yet the Trump administration is not only using deportations as a blunt object to punish pro-Palestine speech, it is also using it to go after labor rights activists. Seattle public radio station KUOW reports “Farmworker activist and union leader Alfredo Juarez Zeferino, known…as ‘Lelo,' was taken into custody by [ICE].” A farmworker and fellow activist Rosalinda Guillén is quoted saying “[Lelo] doesn't have a criminal record…they stopped him because of his leadership, because of his activism.” She added “I think that this is a political attack.” Simultaneously, the Washington Post reports “John Clark, a Trump-appointed Labor Department official, directed the agency's Bureau of International Labor Affairs…to end all of its grants.” These cuts are “expected to end 69 programs that have allocated more than $500 million to combat child labor, forced labor and human trafficking, and to enforce labor standards in more than 40 countries.”7. All of these moves by the Trump administration are despicable and largely unprecedented, but even they are not as brazen as the assault on the twin pillars of the American social welfare system: Social Security and Medicare. Social Security is bearing the brunt of the attacks at the moment. First, AP reported that Elon Musk's DOGE planned to cut up to 50% of the Social Security Administration staff. Then, the Washington Post reported that the administration planned to force millions of seniors to submit claims in person rather than via phone. Now the administration is announcing that they are shifting Social Security payments from paper checks to prepaid debit cards, per Axios. Nearly half a million seniors still receive their payments via physical checks. These massive disruptions in Social Security have roiled seniors across the nation, many of whom are Republican Trump supporters, and they are voicing their frustration to their Republican elected officials – who in turn are chafing at being cut out of the loop by Musk. NBC reports Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa, chairman of the Senate Finance subcommittee on Social Security, said “he had not been told ahead of time about DOGE's moves at the agency.” Senators Steve Daines and Bill Cassidy have echoed this sentiment. And, while Social Security takes center stage, Medicare is next in line. Drop Site is out with a new report on how Trump's nominee to oversee the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services – Dr. Oz – could shift millions of seniors from traditional Medicare to the insurer-controlled Medicare Advantage system. Medicare and Social Security have long been seen as the “third rail” of American politics, meaning politicians who try to tamper with those programs meet their political demise. This is the toughest test yet of whether that remains true.8. The impact of Oscar winning documentary No Other Land continues to reverberate, a testament to the power of its message. In Miami Beach, Mayor Steven Meiner issued a draft resolution calling for the city to terminate its lease agreement with O Cinema, located at Old City Hall, simply for screening the film. Deadline reports however that he was forced to back down. And just this week, co-director of the film Hamdan Ballal was reportedly “lynched” by Israeli settlers in his West Bank village, according to co-director Yuval Abraham, an anti-occupation Jewish Israeli journalist. The Guardian reports “the settlers beat him in front of his home and filmed the assault…he was held at an army base, blindfolded, for 24 hours and forced to sleep under a freezing air conditioner.” Another co-director, Basel Adra of Masafer Yatta, told the AP “We came back from the Oscars and every day since there is an attack on us…This might be their revenge on us for making the movie. It feels like a punishment.” Stunningly, it took days for the Academy of Motion Pictures to issue a statement decrying the violence and even then, the statement was remarkably tepid with no mention of Palestine at all, only condemning “harming or suppressing artists for their work or their viewpoints.”9. In some more positive news, Zohran Mamdani – the Democratic Socialist candidate for Mayor of New York City – has maxed out donations, per Gothamist. Mamdani says he has raised “more than $8 million with projected matching funds from about 18,000 donors citywide and has done so at a faster rate than any campaign in city history.” Having hit the public financing cap this early, Mamdani promised to not spend any more of the campaign raising money and instead plans to “build the single largest volunteer operation we've ever seen in the New York City's mayor's race.” Witnessing a politician asking supporters not to send more money is a truly one-of-a-kind moment. Recent polling shows Mamdani in second place, well behind disgraced former Governor Andrew Cuomo and well ahead of his other rivals, including incumbent Mayor Eric Adams, per CBS. However, Mamdani remains unknown to large numbers of New Yorkers, meaning his ceiling could be much higher. Plenty of time remains before the June mayoral election.10. Finally, in an extremely bizarre story, Columbia Professor Anthony Zenkus reports “Robert Ehrlich, millionaire founder of snack food giant Pirate's Booty…tried to take over the sleepy Long Island town of Sea Cliff.” Zenkus relays that Ehrlich waged a “last minute write-in campaign for mayor in which he only received 62 votes - then declared himself mayor anyway.” Though Ehrlich only received 5% of the vote, he “stormed the village hall with an entourage, declaring himself the duly-elected mayor, screaming that he was there to dissolve the entire town government and that he alone had the power to form a new government.” Ehrlich claimed the election was “rigged” and thus invalid, citing as evidence “One of my supporters voted three times. Another one voted four times…” which constitutes a confession to election fraud. Zenkus ends this story by noting that Ehrlich was “escorted out by police.” It's hard to make heads or tails of this story, but if nothing else it indicates that these petty robber barons are simply out of control – believing they can stage their own mini coup d'etats. And after all, why shouldn't they think so, when one of their ilk occupies perhaps the most powerful office in the history of the world. Bad omens all around.This has been Francesco DeSantis, with In Case You Haven't Heard. Get full access to Ralph Nader Radio Hour at www.ralphnaderradiohour.com/subscribe
On the fifty-third episode of the Constitutionalist, Shane, Ben, and Matthew discuss Lincoln's famous "Temperance Address," delivered on Washington's birthday in 1842 to the Washington Society in Springfield, Illinois. We want to hear from you! Constitutionalistpod@gmail.com The Constitutionalist is proud to be sponsored by the Jack Miller Center for Teaching America's Founding Principles and History. For the last twenty years, JMC has been working to preserve and promote that tradition through a variety of programs at the college and K-12 levels. Through their American Political Tradition Project, JMC has partnered with more than 1,000 scholars at over 300 college campuses across the country, especially through their annual Summer Institutes for graduate students and recent PhDs. The Jack Miller Center is also working with thousands of K-12 educators across the country to help them better understand America's founding principles and history and teach them effectively, to better educate the next generation of citizens. JMC has provided thousands of hours of professional development for teachers all over the country, reaching millions of students with improved civic learning. If you care about American education and civic responsibility, you'll want to check out their work, which focuses on reorienting our institutions of learning around America's founding principles. To learn more or get involved, visit jackmillercenter.org. The Constitutionalist is a podcast co-hosted by Professor Benjamin Kleinerman, the RW Morrison Professor of Political Science at Baylor University and Founder and Editor of The Constitutionalist Blog, Shane Leary, a graduate student at Baylor University, and Dr. Matthew Reising, a John and Daria Barry Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Princeton University. Each week, they discuss political news in light of its constitutional implications, and explore a unique constitutional topic, ranging from the thoughts and experiences of America's founders and statesmen, historical episodes, and the broader philosophic ideas that influence the American experiment in government.
On the fifty-second episode of the Constitutionalist, Shane, Ben, and Matthew are joined by Jordan Cash, Assistant Professor at the James Madison College at Michigan State University, to discuss Texas's declaration of independence from Mexico, and its annexation by the United States. We want to hear from you! Constitutionalistpod@gmail.com The Constitutionalist is proud to be sponsored by the Jack Miller Center for Teaching America's Founding Principles and History. For the last twenty years, JMC has been working to preserve and promote that tradition through a variety of programs at the college and K-12 levels. Through their American Political Tradition Project, JMC has partnered with more than 1,000 scholars at over 300 college campuses across the country, especially through their annual Summer Institutes for graduate students and recent PhDs. The Jack Miller Center is also working with thousands of K-12 educators across the country to help them better understand America's founding principles and history and teach them effectively, to better educate the next generation of citizens. JMC has provided thousands of hours of professional development for teachers all over the country, reaching millions of students with improved civic learning. If you care about American education and civic responsibility, you'll want to check out their work, which focuses on reorienting our institutions of learning around America's founding principles. To learn more or get involved, visit jackmillercenter.org. The Constitutionalist is a podcast cohosted by Professor Benjamin Kleinerman, the RW Morrison Professor of Political Science at Baylor University and Founder and Editor of The Constitutionalist Blog, Shane Leary, a graduate student at Baylor University, and Dr. Matthew Reising, a John and Daria Barry Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Princeton University. Each week, they discuss political news in light of its constitutional implications, and explore a unique constitutional topic, ranging from the thoughts and experiences of America's founders and statesmen, historical episodes, and the broader philosophic ideas that influence the American experiment in government.
Tommy talks with Senator Bill Cassidy about the budget, government spending, stopping fentanyl, and more.
* Talking with David Schultz, a political scientist and professor of law at Hamline University, about checks and balances in our government. * Checking in with Senator Bill Cassidy about the recent government spending bill and how it's been working with the new Trump administration.
* Taking a look at the long and rich history of Italians in America * Supporting this ballot measure would help fund criminal justice operations, St. Tammany DA says * Cameron Henry wants to help save UNO * Sen. Bill Cassidy on balancing the budget and stopping fentanyl * There's plenty going on for St. Joseph's Day around the area
On the fifty-first episode of the Constitutionalist, Shane Leary and Matthew Reising discuss James Madison's Note on Property for the National Gazette, published March 27, 1792 We want to hear from you! Constitutionalistpod@gmail.com The Constitutionalist is proud to be sponsored by the Jack Miller Center for Teaching America's Founding Principles and History. For the last twenty years, JMC has been working to preserve and promote that tradition through a variety of programs at the college and K-12 levels. Through their American Political Tradition Project, JMC has partnered with more than 1,000 scholars at over 300 college campuses across the country, especially through their annual Summer Institutes for graduate students and recent PhDs. The Jack Miller Center is also working with thousands of K-12 educators across the country to help them better understand America's founding principles and history and teach them effectively, to better educate the next generation of citizens. JMC has provided thousands of hours of professional development for teachers all over the country, reaching millions of students with improved civic learning. If you care about American education and civic responsibility, you'll want to check out their work, which focuses on reorienting our institutions of learning around America's founding principles. To learn more or get involved, visit jackmillercenter.org. The Constitutionalist is a podcast cohosted by Professor Benjamin Kleinerman, the RW Morrison Professor of Political Science at Baylor University and Founder and Editor of The Constitutionalist Blog, Shane Leary, a graduate student at Baylor University, and Dr. Matthew Reising, a John and Daria Barry Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Princeton University. Each week, they discuss political news in light of its constitutional implications, and explore a unique constitutional topic, ranging from the thoughts and experiences of America's founders and statesmen, historical episodes, and the broader philosophic ideas that influence the American experiment in government.
Media spin, Leavitt lies, autos die?The GENIUS Stablecoin Act hands cronies a privatized surveillance-packed digital dollarUSAID's burning & shredding secrets like a CIA frontAI the Satanic Tool of Deception & DominionTrump axes CDC nominee Dave Weldon for daring to defy the vaccine racket2:30 CNN Poll Ignites The Hill and Breitbart in a Battle of Spin Over Poll About Trump's Ego-nomics 8:37 White House mouthpiece Caroline “Love It” gets roasted by an AP reporter for peddling tariff lies straight out of the Democrat playbookDon't worry it's not a tax for YOU — it will be paid by other people 14:18 Tariffs On, Tariffs Off — Flip Flopping in Mere HoursSo who's “winning”? 17:21 Trump's Tariffs Torpedo the F-150 and Trigger a Market MeltdownThe Ford F-150, America's top-selling truck, is caught in the crossfire as steel and aluminum costs skyrocket, threatening to jack up prices and gut Ford's profits. Wall Street's reeling—Dow plunges 1,000 points. Is this a cunning plot to crash cars and force you into Musk's creepy Cybercabs, or just reckless bullying to strong-arm the Fed? 26:35 Trump Tariffs on UK Steel? Labour WANTS Steel Plants ShutThe UK's last steel plants face extinction and Trump is ready to help. Labour doesn't care, maybe on the same page as Trump 37:46 LIVE comments from audience and emails1:00:13 GENIUS Stablecoin Act: Here Comes the Crony Capitalist Digital Currency The so-called "GENIUS Stablecoin Bill" — officially the Guiding and Establishing National Innovation for US Stablecoins — a bipartisan crew of crypto-connected senators, is about propping up a failing dollar with a blockchain Band-Aid while handing obscene profits to the elite and creating a private version of CBDC. Picture this: a "stablecoin" tied to the shaky US dollar, dressed up as freedom but loaded with CBDC-style surveillance, asset-freezing powers, and a backdoor for the Federal Reserve to swoop in during "emergencies" (aka whenever they feel like it). A privatized digital shackle disguised as progress. 1:28:42 Tokenization Crypto Con Set to Enslave and Scam the WorldIs tokenization the shiny new frontier for capital markets? It promises blockchain magic to “grease the economy's wheels”—from rights to things that don't exist (yet) to enslaving high school athletes with “future earnings” tokens, this crypto scam reeks of the securitized mortgage meltdown all over again. 1:48:47 LIVE comments from audience 1:53:31 Covering Up Trump's Epstein Relationship: Leavitt, Tulsi, Bondi 1:56:40 BigEgg Cartel & Price Rigging: Another Look, a Different AngleIs this a calculated heist? 2:13:41 LIVE comments — commemorative coins for the show, 5 year anniversary of “the emergency”, and is there a plot to assassinate Infowars personnel? 2:20:27 USAID Staff Told to “Shred-and-Burn”The head of USAID just ordered a frantic shred-and-burn of all documents. They act like a corrupt money laundering arm of the CIA — because they ARE 2:25:38 AI the Satanic Tool of Deception and Dominion AI isn't just tech, it's the devil's masterpiece! From cloning voices in every language to promising miracles like making the blind see, AI's a golden calf for a faithless world, a Leviathan of pride that tempts us to worship it. Elon Musk calls it a god, Jordan Peterson nods along, but this black-box beast—beyond our grasp yet ruling our courts and lives—whispers satanic subversion to enslave us all in a soft cage of dependency and deception! 2:36:22 Massive Lawfare Against Trump Cuts — And a New Strategy to Stop the Lawsuits The administration's fighting back with a slick injunction bond tactic—but is it enough to stop the judicial juggernaut? 2:45:22 Trump Dumps Dave Weldon: CDC Nominee Axed at the Last Second for the Vaccine Protection RacketDr. Dave Weldon, the former Congressman, physician, and vaccine skeptic tapped to lead the CDC, just got the boot from the Trump administration hours before his big Senate showdown! Set to face off with Senator Bill Cassidy, the Republican gatekeeper of the Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee, Weldon was poised to either sell his soul or stand firm on his controversial anti-vaccine stance. But in a jaw-dropping twist on March 13, 2025, the White House yanked his nomination 2:54:48 Vaccines Allergy Apocalypse: Proteins Poisoning Kids with Milk and Peanut Death TrapsVaccines aren't protecting—Nobel laureate (and eugenicist) Charles Richet knew it in 1913—injecting proteins flips immunity into a kill switchIf you would like to support the show and our family please consider subscribing monthly here: SubscribeStar https://www.subscribestar.com/the-david-knight-show Or you can send a donation throughMail: David Knight POB 994 Kodak, TN 37764Zelle: @DavidKnightShow@protonmail.comCash App at: $davidknightshowBTC to: bc1qkuec29hkuye4xse9unh7nptvu3y9qmv24vanh7Money should have intrinsic value AND transactional privacy: Go to DavidKnight.gold for great deals on physical gold/silverFor 10% off Gerald Celente's prescient Trends Journal, go to TrendsJournal.com and enter the code KNIGHTFor 10% off supplements and books, go to RNCstore.com and enter the code KNIGHTBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-david-knight-show--2653468/support.
Media spin, Leavitt lies, autos die?The GENIUS Stablecoin Act hands cronies a privatized surveillance-packed digital dollarUSAID's burning & shredding secrets like a CIA frontAI the Satanic Tool of Deception & DominionTrump axes CDC nominee Dave Weldon for daring to defy the vaccine racket2:30 CNN Poll Ignites The Hill and Breitbart in a Battle of Spin Over Poll About Trump's Ego-nomics 8:37 White House mouthpiece Caroline “Love It” gets roasted by an AP reporter for peddling tariff lies straight out of the Democrat playbookDon't worry it's not a tax for YOU — it will be paid by other people 14:18 Tariffs On, Tariffs Off — Flip Flopping in Mere HoursSo who's “winning”? 17:21 Trump's Tariffs Torpedo the F-150 and Trigger a Market MeltdownThe Ford F-150, America's top-selling truck, is caught in the crossfire as steel and aluminum costs skyrocket, threatening to jack up prices and gut Ford's profits. Wall Street's reeling—Dow plunges 1,000 points. Is this a cunning plot to crash cars and force you into Musk's creepy Cybercabs, or just reckless bullying to strong-arm the Fed? 26:35 Trump Tariffs on UK Steel? Labour WANTS Steel Plants ShutThe UK's last steel plants face extinction and Trump is ready to help. Labour doesn't care, maybe on the same page as Trump 37:46 LIVE comments from audience and emails1:00:13 GENIUS Stablecoin Act: Here Comes the Crony Capitalist Digital Currency The so-called "GENIUS Stablecoin Bill" — officially the Guiding and Establishing National Innovation for US Stablecoins — a bipartisan crew of crypto-connected senators, is about propping up a failing dollar with a blockchain Band-Aid while handing obscene profits to the elite and creating a private version of CBDC. Picture this: a "stablecoin" tied to the shaky US dollar, dressed up as freedom but loaded with CBDC-style surveillance, asset-freezing powers, and a backdoor for the Federal Reserve to swoop in during "emergencies" (aka whenever they feel like it). A privatized digital shackle disguised as progress. 1:28:42 Tokenization Crypto Con Set to Enslave and Scam the WorldIs tokenization the shiny new frontier for capital markets? It promises blockchain magic to “grease the economy's wheels”—from rights to things that don't exist (yet) to enslaving high school athletes with “future earnings” tokens, this crypto scam reeks of the securitized mortgage meltdown all over again. 1:48:47 LIVE comments from audience 1:53:31 Covering Up Trump's Epstein Relationship: Leavitt, Tulsi, Bondi 1:56:40 BigEgg Cartel & Price Rigging: Another Look, a Different AngleIs this a calculated heist? 2:13:41 LIVE comments — commemorative coins for the show, 5 year anniversary of “the emergency”, and is there a plot to assassinate Infowars personnel? 2:20:27 USAID Staff Told to “Shred-and-Burn”The head of USAID just ordered a frantic shred-and-burn of all documents. They act like a corrupt money laundering arm of the CIA — because they ARE 2:25:38 AI the Satanic Tool of Deception and Dominion AI isn't just tech, it's the devil's masterpiece! From cloning voices in every language to promising miracles like making the blind see, AI's a golden calf for a faithless world, a Leviathan of pride that tempts us to worship it. Elon Musk calls it a god, Jordan Peterson nods along, but this black-box beast—beyond our grasp yet ruling our courts and lives—whispers satanic subversion to enslave us all in a soft cage of dependency and deception! 2:36:22 Massive Lawfare Against Trump Cuts — And a New Strategy to Stop the Lawsuits The administration's fighting back with a slick injunction bond tactic—but is it enough to stop the judicial juggernaut? 2:45:22 Trump Dumps Dave Weldon: CDC Nominee Axed at the Last Second for the Vaccine Protection RacketDr. Dave Weldon, the former Congressman, physician, and vaccine skeptic tapped to lead the CDC, just got the boot from the Trump administration hours before his big Senate showdown! Set to face off with Senator Bill Cassidy, the Republican gatekeeper of the Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee, Weldon was poised to either sell his soul or stand firm on his controversial anti-vaccine stance. But in a jaw-dropping twist on March 13, 2025, the White House yanked his nomination 2:54:48 Vaccines Allergy Apocalypse: Proteins Poisoning Kids with Milk and Peanut Death TrapsVaccines aren't protecting—Nobel laureate (and eugenicist) Charles Richet knew it in 1913—injecting proteins flips immunity into a kill switchIf you would like to support the show and our family please consider subscribing monthly here: SubscribeStar https://www.subscribestar.com/the-david-knight-show Or you can send a donation throughMail: David Knight POB 994 Kodak, TN 37764Zelle: @DavidKnightShow@protonmail.comCash App at: $davidknightshowBTC to: bc1qkuec29hkuye4xse9unh7nptvu3y9qmv24vanh7Money should have intrinsic value AND transactional privacy: Go to DavidKnight.gold for great deals on physical gold/silverFor 10% off Gerald Celente's prescient Trends Journal, go to TrendsJournal.com and enter the code KNIGHTFor 10% off supplements and books, go to RNCstore.com and enter the code KNIGHTBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-real-david-knight-show--5282736/support.
To commemorate the fiftieth episode of The Constitutionalist, Benjamin Kleinerman, Shane Leary, and Matthew Reising discuss the Constitution of 1787. We want to hear from you! Constitutionalistpod@gmail.com The Constitutionalist is proud to be sponsored by the Jack Miller Center for Teaching America's Founding Principles and History. For the last twenty years, JMC has been working to preserve and promote that tradition through a variety of programs at the college and K-12 levels. Through their American Political Tradition Project, JMC has partnered with more than 1,000 scholars at over 300 college campuses across the country, especially through their annual Summer Institutes for graduate students and recent PhDs. The Jack Miller Center is also working with thousands of K-12 educators across the country to help them better understand America's founding principles and history and teach them effectively, to better educate the next generation of citizens. JMC has provided thousands of hours of professional development for teachers all over the country, reaching millions of students with improved civic learning. If you care about American education and civic responsibility, you'll want to check out their work, which focuses on reorienting our institutions of learning around America's founding principles. To learn more or get involved, visit jackmillercenter.org. The Constitutionalist is a podcast cohosted by Professor Benjamin Kleinerman, the RW Morrison Professor of Political Science at Baylor University and Founder and Editor of The Constitutionalist Blog, Shane Leary, a graduate student at Baylor University, and Dr. Matthew Reising, a John and Daria Barry Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Princeton University. Each week, they discuss political news in light of its constitutional implications, and explore a unique constitutional topic, ranging from the thoughts and experiences of America's founders and statesmen, historical episodes, and the broader philosophic ideas that influence the American experiment in government.
On the forty-ninth episode of The Constitutionalist, Benjamin Kleinerman, Shane Leary, and Matthew Reising discuss James Madison's "Notes on Ancient and Modern Confederacies," compiled in 1786, and his early thinking regarding confederacies, union, and the necessity of a new Constitution. We want to hear from you! Constitutionalistpod@gmail.com The Constitutionalist is proud to be sponsored by the Jack Miller Center for Teaching America's Founding Principles and History. For the last twenty years, JMC has been working to preserve and promote that tradition through a variety of programs at the college and K-12 levels. Through their American Political Tradition Project, JMC has partnered with more than 1,000 scholars at over 300 college campuses across the country, especially through their annual Summer Institutes for graduate students and recent PhDs. The Jack Miller Center is also working with thousands of K-12 educators across the country to help them better understand America's founding principles and history and teach them effectively, to better educate the next generation of citizens. JMC has provided thousands of hours of professional development for teachers all over the country, reaching millions of students with improved civic learning. If you care about American education and civic responsibility, you'll want to check out their work, which focuses on reorienting our institutions of learning around America's founding principles. To learn more or get involved, visit jackmillercenter.org. The Constitutionalist is a podcast cohosted by Professor Benjamin Kleinerman, the RW Morrison Professor of Political Science at Baylor University and Founder and Editor of The Constitutionalist Blog, Shane Leary, a graduate student at Baylor University, and Dr. Matthew Reising, a John and Daria Barry Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Princeton University. Each week, they discuss political news in light of its constitutional implications, and explore a unique constitutional topic, ranging from the thoughts and experiences of America's founders and statesmen, historical episodes, and the broader philosophic ideas that influence the American experiment in government.
Rachel Maddow emphasizes the importance of resistance by Republican legislators to Donald Trump's agenda, and points out that the unpopularity of Trump's actions may help that resistance politically, but also some senators, like Senator Bill Cassidy of Louisiana, have enough expertise in their chosen field to know how destructive Trump and his Cabinet are, and may be vulnerable to pressure on those issues.
Firing air traffic controllers over a busy holiday travel weekend, cutting a veterans crisis hotline, axing and then rehiring people who maintain and keep our nuclear arsenal safe: Musk and his minions aren't trying to "fix" the government. They're trying to make it more susceptible to Trump's personalized leadership. And the MIA Dems need to get out there and throw some punches since the media loves fights. Meanwhile, the US is now more of a problem than a solution on Ukraine, Elon's massive corruption isn't drawing anywhere near the same attention as Hunter/Burisma—and Bill Cassidy could just vote against Kash or delay his confirmation if he's really worried about the FBI. Bill Kristol joins Tim Miller show notes Bill's 'Bulwark on Sunday' conversation with Eric Edeleman Don Moynihan's newsletter that Bill mentioned
Ralph welcomes Constitutional law expert Bruce Fein to analyze Congress' abdication of power in the face of President Trump and Elon Musk's actions to dismantle the federal government, and whether any of it is legal. Then, Ralph is joined by Norman Solomon from RootsAction to discuss the new Chair of the Democratic National Committee, Ken Martin, and whether we should be optimistic about his agenda for the Democrats.Bruce Fein is a Constitutional scholar and an expert on international law. Mr. Fein was Associate Deputy Attorney General under Ronald Reagan and he is the author of Constitutional Peril: The Life and Death Struggle for Our Constitution and Democracy, and American Empire: Before the Fall.What I think shows the clear (what I would call malignant) intent, is even though he has Republican majorities in the House and the Senate, he's never contemplated going back to Congress and saying, "Hey, I want you to do X. I want you to do Y. We need to do this in the proper way."Bruce Fein[Trump's] boogeyman is DEI. So he claims that a crash between a helicopter and airplane in Washington, D.C. is a DEI problem. Of course, it's amazing that somebody who has such contempt for meritocracy with his own cabinet appointments suddenly blames, “Oh, well, DEI, it's watering down standards.” Well, he doesn't have any standards himself, so it's kind of ironic there.Bruce FeinImpeachment is not a criminal prosecution. Impeachment is what Benjamin Franklin at the Constitutional Convention said— it's the civilized substitute for tyrannicide…And if you're impeached, it's because you have undertaken attempts to subvert the Constitution so the people no longer view you as a trustworthy steward of our liberties and the rule of law. That's what it is. You don't go to Siberia, you don't go to the guillotine, that's it. And there have been, of course, many federal judges (probably as many as a dozen) who've been impeached, removed from office. And you know what? They still survive. There's not a graveyard of them…So this idea that impeachment is somehow some enormous volcanic eruption on the landscape is totally misleading and wrong.Bruce FeinThere are two informal checkpoints I want to run by you. [Trump] is afraid of the stock market collapsing—and it could well collapse because chaos is the thing that really gets investors and big institutional investors scared. And the second thing he's afraid of is a plunge in the polls, including among Trump voters who represent families that have the same necessities for their children and their neighborhood as liberal families.Ralph NaderNorman Solomon is co-founder of RootsAction.org and executive director of the Institute for Public Accuracy. He is the author of War Made Easy, Made Love, Got War, and his newest book, War Made Invisible: How America Hides the Human Toll of Its Military Machine.Especially when there's not a Democrat in the White House, the leader of the Democratic Party de facto is often the chair of the Democratic National Committee. And we now, of course, have the Democrats in minority in the House and the Senate. Biden's out of there in the White House. And so, really, it falls to the chair of the DNC to ostensibly at least give direction to the Democratic Party. And we've suffered for the last four years under Jamie Harrison as chair of the DNC, who basically did whatever Biden told him to do, and Biden told him to just praise President Biden. And we saw the result, the enabling process from the DNC was just a disaster for the Democratic Party and the country.Norman SolomonLiterally and figuratively in a sense, there needs to be a tearing down of the walls that have been surrounding the Democratic National Committee headquarters. Activists (thousands of us, really, in recent years) have discovered and rediscovered that the DNC is like a fortress. They have the moat, the drawbridge is locked, and we can't even get inside to have a word in edgewise compared to the lobbyists and those who are running the DNC. This is really just remarkable, how difficult it has been for strong Democratic Party activists, if they're not on the DNC (and even if they are, quite often) to get a word in edgewise for the corporate-oriented so-called leadership of the DNC. That might change now.Norman SolomonAlfred Bridi is a U.S. immigration attorney associated with the law firm Scale LLP who specializes in employment- and family-based immigration law. Prior to joining Scale LLP, he practiced law at major international law firms and also worked with leading international organizations on global migration and transparency issues.These executive orders and these executive actions have really created a tension in terms of enforcement officials trying to understand what these mean; in terms of the judiciary and and legal activists contesting a lot of the foundations and the arguments made; in terms of our legal system and our constitutional rights; and I think more than anything, they have had a signaling effect to ordinary Americans and immigrant populations that, “You're not welcome here, and we are going to come after you.” And I think the difference that we've seen is a broadening of the enforcement net and a removal of any sort of refinement or targeting. We've seen American citizens and military veterans being arrested and detained. We've seen Indigenous people being detained. And it's created a sense of terror and panic across the country that I feel is absolutely deliberate, and in line with the campaign promises of this new administration.Alfred BridiNews 2/5/251. The New York Times reports President Trump has ousted Rohit Chopra, the head of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau who was “known for his aggressive enforcement and expansion of consumer protection laws.” During his tenure, Chopra cracked down on junk fees, particularly bank overdraft fees, and sought to remove medical debt from individuals' credit histories. As the Times notes, Chopra “improbably hung on for nearly two weeks [after Trump took office, and]…used that time to impose a $2 million fine on a money transmitter and release reports on auto lending costs, specialty credit reporting companies and rent payment data.” In his letter of resignation, Chopra wrote “With so much power concentrated in the hands of a few, agencies like the C.F.P.B. have never been more critical,” and “I hope that the CFPB will continue to be a pillar of restoring and advancing economic liberty in America.”2. In more Trump administration staffing news, AP reports the Senate Finance Committee voted 13-14 along party lines Tuesday to advance the nomination of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to lead the Department of Health and Human Services. Senator Bill Cassidy of Louisiana, a physician by trade and member of the committee who expressed grave concern over Kennedy's stances on vaccines and other health-related matters, said during the hearings “Your past, undermining confidence in vaccines with unfounded or misleading arguments, concerns me.” Ultimately however, Cassidy voted “aye.” Kennedy's nomination will now advance to the full Senate, where the GOP holds a comfortable majority thus almost ensuring his confirmation.3. Speaking of Trump and health, CBS is out with an update on the 2023 East Palestine, Ohio railroad disaster. According to this report, Vice President JD Vance visited the crash site on February 3rd and vowed that the administration would hold Norfolk Southern accountable for “unfilled promises of settlement money and training centers.” That same day, residents of East Palestine filed a lawsuit alleging that Norfolk Southern's actions resulted in the wrongful death of seven people, including a one-week-old baby.4. Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum has successfully negotiated a month-long delay of Trump's proposed 25% tariffs. According to CNN, the deal reached between the two North American heads of state includes Mexico deploying 10,000 National Guard troops to its northern border to help stem the flow of fentanyl into the U.S., while Trump has reportedly agreed to help end the deluge of American guns moving South. In her regular Monday morning press conference, Sheinbaum said “For humanitarian reasons, we must help the United States address its fentanyl consumption crisis, which is leading to overdose deaths.” Sheinbaum has been roundly praised for her ability to both stand up to and placate Trump. Reuters quoted Jorge Guajardo, a former Mexican ambassador to China and member of the opposition Partido Acción Nacional or PAN party, who had to admit “President Sheinbaum played it…Masterfully.”5. Democracy Now! reports a group of Quaker congregations have filed a lawsuit against Immigration and Customs Enforcement in response to the Trump administration's order “allowing federal agents to raid…schools, hospitals, shelters and places of worship.” This lawsuit alleges that “The very threat of [such raids] deters congregants from attending services, especially members of immigrant communities,” and that therefore this order infringes upon the Constitutional “guarantee of religious liberty.” The Quakers have historically been among the most progressive Christian sects, having been leaders in the fight to abolish slavery and to oppose war.6. Reese Gorman of NOTUS reports that so far approximately 24,000 federal employees have accepted Elon Musk's proposed “buyout,” meaning they will leave their jobs and should receive eight months of severance pay. This purge of the federal workforce has been among the most prominent initiatives of Musk's Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE. Less prominently touted however is what the administration plans to do once these employees have been purged. Recent comments from Secretary of State Marco Rubio in Bloomberg however are enlightening. Rubio, commenting on the “potential reorganization” of the Agency for International Development or USAID, indicated that the reduction in the size of the workforce would be paired with greater use of private contractors. Most likely this means farming out government services to Trump lackeys, cronies, and assorted grifters – all on the taxpayers' dime.7. Front and center in combatting Musk's quiet coup is Public Citizen. On Monday, the public interest watchdog announced they are suing the Treasury Department for its “unlawful disclosure of personal & financial information to Elon Musk's DOGE.” Their legal complaint, filed alongside the Alliance for Retired Americans, the Association of Federal Government Employees and the SEIU, reads, in part, “The scale of the intrusion into individuals' privacy is massive and unprecedented. Millions of people cannot avoid engaging in financial transactionswith the federal government and, therefore, cannot avoid having their sensitivepersonal and financial information maintained in government records. SecretaryBessent's action granting DOGE-affiliated individuals full, continuous, and ongoingaccess to that information for an unspecified period of time means that retirees,taxpayers, federal employees, companies, and other individuals from all walks of life have no assurance that their information will receive the protection that federal law affords.”8. Turning to the Middle East, Drop Site News reports “Over 100 journalists…sent a letter to Egyptian authorities on Sunday requesting access to Gaza through the Rafah border crossing.” CNN, NBC, NPR, CBS, ABC, AP, Reuters, BBC, Sky News, the Financial Times, the Washington Post, the LA Times France 24, Le Monde, El Pais, and others, including Drop Site itself, are signatories on this letter. The letter states “We understand that the situation is fluid regarding the border crossing, but we ask that permission for journalists to cross the Rafah border be at the forefront of the…No international journalists have been able to access Gaza without an Israeli military escort since the war began in October 2023. We request that permission be granted on an expedited basis while Phase 1 of the ceasefire is still in effect.” As Drop Site notes, “Egypt has not allowed journalists to cross Rafah into Gaza since 2013, when Abdel Fattah al-Sisi took power in Egypt in a military coup.” This has meant all journalistic access to Gaza must go through Israel.9. Our last two stories have to do with the Democrats. On February 1st, Ken Martin was elected the new chair of the Democratic National Committee. Martin previously led the Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party and the Association of State Democratic Parties, per POLITICO. WPR reports Martin's victory was decisive at 246.5 out of 428 votes; the second-place finisher, Ben Wikler, chair of the Wisconsin Democratic Party, won only 134.5 votes despite endorsements from House and Senate Minority Leaders Jeffries and Schumer, among many other high-profile elected Democrats, per the Hill. Other candidates included Maryland Governor Martin O'Malley and Bernie Sanders' 2020 campaign manager Faiz Shakir, though he entered late and without substantial backing. Martin's reputation is mixed, with one DNC member telling POLITICO, “he's a knife-fighter.” Perhaps that is what the party needs to turn things around.10. Finally, Variety reports former President Biden has signed with the Creative Arts Agency, or CAA, one of the premier talent agencies in Hollywood. CAA also represents Barack and Michelle Obama and Hillary Clinton, per the BBC. With the White House once again occupied by a creature of showbusiness, the symbiotic relationship between politics, media and entertainment has never been clearer. In the words of George Carlin, “It's a big club, and you ain't in it.”This has been Francesco DeSantis, with In Case You Haven't Heard. Get full access to Ralph Nader Radio Hour at www.ralphnaderradiohour.com/subscribe
OA1121 and T3BE57 - Senator Bill Cassidy is one of the few remaining Republicans in national politics that resembles a normal human being. He is a doctor, and is very pro-vaccine. And he had a critical hand in RFK Jr.'s confirmation process. There seemed to be a decent chance he might not vote for the brain worms that run RFK Jr.'s flesh suit, but in the end, he did. How did he get there? How did he justify it? It's an interesting story and it says a lot about where we are right now. If you'd like to play along with T3BE, here's what to do: hop on Bluesky, follow Openargs, find the post that has this episode, and quote it with your answer! Or, go to our Subreddit and look for the appropriate t3BE posting. Or best of all, become a patron at patreon.com/law and play there! Check out the OA Linktree for all the places to go and things to do! To support the show (and lose the ads!), please pledge at patreon.com/law!
The Rich Zeoli Show- Hour 4: 6:05pm- Don't say “Super Bowl” + Rich doesn't check his emails. 6:10pm- On Tuesday, the Senate Intelligence Committee voted to advance Tulsi Gabbard's nomination to Director of National Intelligence. The vote was 9 to 8 along party lines—with Senators Susan Collins (R-ME) and Todd Young (R-IN) voting for approval despite rumors of hesitancy. 6:15pm- Speaking from the Senate floor, Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-LA)—a doctor—explained why he has voted to advance Robert Kennedy Jr.'s nomination to lead the Department of Health and Human Services. 6:20pm- “If Presidents Can't Control Executive Agencies, Elections Are Fake.” In her article for The Federalist, Joy Pullman notes that Democrats are hypocritically suggesting that Donald Trump can't create a new executive department (like DOGE), while simultaneously saying Trump doesn't have the power to dismantle a department created by a former president (like USAID). You can read the full article here: https://thefederalist.com/2025/02/03/if-presidents-cant-control-executive-agencies-elections-are-fake/ 6:40pm- Reacting to Elon Musk and DOGE cutting the size of government, Rep. LaMonica McIver (D-NJ) encouraged protesters to “shut down” Washington D.C. and told Democrats “we are at war.”
The Rich Zeoli Show- Full Episode (02/04/2025): 3:05pm- On Tuesday, the Senate Intelligence Committee voted to advance Tulsi Gabbard's nomination to Director of National Intelligence. The vote was 9 to 8 along party lines—with Senators Susan Collins (R-ME) and Todd Young (R-IN) voting for approval despite rumors of hesitancy. 3:30pm- From the Oval Office on Tuesday, President Donald Trump signed an executive order which would end U.S. involvement with the United Nations Human Rights Council and the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA). Last year, there were numerous reports documenting UNRWA's close ties to Hamas. President Trump also addressed China's retaliatory tariffs, reports he will dismantle the Department of Education, DOGE actively reducing the size of government, and the importance of protecting American sovereignty. 4:05pm- From the Oval Office on Tuesday, President Donald Trump signed an executive order which would end U.S. involvement with the United Nations Human Rights Council and the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA). Last year, there were numerous reports documenting UNRWA's close ties to Hamas. President Trump also addressed China's retaliatory tariffs, reports he will dismantle the Department of Education, DOGE actively reducing the size of government, and the importance of protecting American sovereignty. 4:15pm- Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced that El Salvador president offered to house dangerous criminals from gangs like MS-13 and Tren de Aragua—which President Donald Trump recently designated as foreign terror organizations. 4:30pm- Dr. Wilfred Reilly—Professor of Political Science at Kentucky State University & Author of “Lies My Liberal Teacher Told Me”—joins The Rich Zeoli Show and reacts to a new report which indicates 38% of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agents were, at one point, investigating January 6th related crimes. Plus, what do women REALLY want? A new survey indicates strong, wealthy men are still preferred—shocking! And Dr. Reilly says that President Donald Trump should award Stanford economist Dr. Thomas Sowell with the Presidential Medal of Freedom. 5:05pm- Speaking with the press from the Oval Office alongside Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, President Donald Trump said he would like Jordan and Egypt to take in Palestinians displaced from Gaza. 5:20pm- Is New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy terrified of the Trump Administration? During a recent interview, Murphy revealed an undocumented migrant currently lives at his home—and dared the Trump Administration to “come in to try to get her.” A representative for the governor insisted that Murphy's words were “misinterpreted.” 5:35pm- While speaking from the Oval Office, President Donald Trump said that if Iran assassinates him, he has left instructions to “obliterate” them and that “there would be nothing left.” 5:40pm- Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) said that people will die if the Trump Administration pulls funding from the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). Rich and Matt wonder: how many people will die if we don't spend $70,000 in taxpayer money on D.E.I. musicals in Ireland? 6:05pm- Don't say “Super Bowl” + Rich doesn't check his emails. 6:10pm- On Tuesday, the Senate Intelligence Committee voted to advance Tulsi Gabbard's nomination to Director of National Intelligence. The vote was 9 to 8 along party lines—with Senators Susan Collins (R-ME) and Todd Young (R-IN) voting for approval despite rumors of hesitancy. 6:15pm- Speaking from the Senate floor, Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-LA)—a doctor—explained why he has voted to advance Robert Kennedy Jr.'s nomination to lead the Department of Health and Human Services. 6:20pm- “If Presidents Can't Control Executive Agencies, Elections Are Fake.” In her article for The Federalist, Joy Pullman notes that Democrats are hypocritically suggesting that Donald Trump can't create a new executive department (like DOGE), while s ...
Trump might get his cabinet after all.It was never going to be easy, many of them pulled from the Deep MAGA reserves doomed to offend the old guard who are developing carpel tunnel holding their nose through Trump's second administration. Others are lifelong Democrats who helped over the finish line but still inspire a stink eye from lifelong Republicans.Some confirmations were easy—Elise Stefanik sailed through, and Marco Rubio was unanimous. Others more controversial, like Pete Hegseth, who barely squeaked by. But throughout it all, two nominees had the lowest odds of making it through, Tulsi Gabbard and RFK Jr. That's because neither of them are Republicans, and in a Senate where the GOP holds a 53-47 edge, blocking a nomination means peeling off Republican votes, not relying on Democratic opposition. The Democrats could stomp their feet all they wanted—it didn't matter. But on this Tuesday, both have made it out of committee, thanks to key endorsements from influential figures within the GOP they both look to be on a narrow but assured path to the executive branch where they will serve at the pleasure of the president.Politics Politics Politics is free twice a week. Does it LOOK like news is only breaking twice a week? C'mon dude, get the two bonus episodes.Tulsi GabbardHer confirmation was boosted by Susan Collins, a senator unafraid to buck the Trump administration. Representing Maine—a state that's far from a deep-red stronghold—Collins' support was critical. It was enough to push Gabbard through committee on strict party lines. Beyond Collins, outreach from newly installed CIA Director John Radcliffe and Senator J.D. Vance helped smooth over concerns that arose during her confirmation hearing. The main sticking point? Her stance on Edward Snowden. Gabbard made it clear that she viewed Snowden as a criminal and would not recommend a pardon, but she stopped short of calling him a traitor. This led to a bizarre debate over whether she was sufficiently condemning Snowden, as some seemed to argue that unless she said the magic “traitor” word she was unqualified. Gabbard's confirmation has brought together one of the strangest coalitions I've seen on the right—far-right Republicans like Tom Cotton, staunch Never Trumpers like Meghan McCain, and figures like TuringPoint's Charlie Kirk. McCain even appeared on Kirk's radio show Monday to announce they'd team up to primary anyone who voted against Gabbard. That looks like it might not be necessary.RFK Jr. Unlike Gabbard, his confirmation hearing was messier. While Gabbard kept her composure, RFK Jr. approached it like a Kennedy: arrogantly. Democrats took their best shot, mostly by hammering him on vaccines, though their efforts were, frankly, ineffective. They made a lot of noise but didn't seem genuinely committed to blocking him. In the end, Bill Cassidy of Louisiana, a Republican who voted to impeach Trump, decided he was comfortable enough with RFK Jr. to push him through committee.With that, Trump's cabinet is nearly complete. There's one more potential hurdle: a labor secretary nominee who previously supported the PRO Act and has drawn skepticism from Republicans. But compared to Tulsi and RFK, this is a much lower-profile battle.At the end of the day, this confirmation process has been tougher than what Trump faced in his first term, but his team has handled it deftly. The Democrats? They put up almost no real defense.Was that on purpose? I don't know. I suspect they don't either.Chapters00:00 Intro02:50 Tulsi and RFK safe?12:42 USAID21:04 Waffle House Raises Egg Prices25:46 Senate Takes Charge on Reconciliation Bills32:38 Chris Cillizza This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.politicspoliticspolitics.com/subscribe
On this episode of “Sara Gonzales Unfiltered,” RFK Jr. narrowly advances in his confirmation hearings. Senator Bill Cassidy finally votes to confirm RFK Jr. following a social media post from Donald Trump claiming that vaccines might be responsible for a rise in autism in America. Donald Trump scores yet another victory as Canada decides to negotiate under the threat of a 25% tariff. Canada has agreed to strengthen its border to mitigate the flow of illegal immigrants and fentanyl into the United States. Border czar Tom Homan threatens prosecution after New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy seemingly confessed to harboring illegal immigrants in his home. The episode concludes as Sara and the panel discuss the Democrats' concerned reaction to Elon Musk exposing outrageous government spending through USAID. Today's Guests: Sara is joined today by Eric July, founder of Rippaverse Comics, and Jaco Booyens, host of "The Bottom Line." Today's Sponsors: Birch Gold: Text SARA to 989898 to get your free info-kit on gold AND a copy of “The Ultimate Guide for Gold in the Trump Era” with a foreword by Donald Trump Jr. My Patriot Supply: Right now, My Patriot Supply is offering $50 off its 4-Week Food Kit. Go to http://www.preparewithsara.com now to grab yours. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Megyn Kelly is joined by Turning Point USA's Charlie Kirk, host of The Charlie Kirk Show, to talk about the shocking new video showing the moment of impact of the D.C. plane and helicopter crash, speculation about intentionality, the "not normal" situation at that air traffic control tower that night, the DEI obsession of the previous administration and how that relates to the FAA issues, Trump's comments on merit and DEI after the crash getting attacked by the left, Tulsi Gabbard's chances of getting confirmed as DNI, Susan Collins seeming to move toward a yes, Gabbard's strength and poise during the hearing, RFK Jr. getting smeared for daring to question the public health establishment, attacks from the left and right, Sen. Bill Cassidy's crucial vote on RFK's nomination, a wild CNN segment featuring a pundit worried women won't have blueberries for their smoothies after illegal immigration crackdown, the elitism on display in response to Trump's immigration actions, Karoline Leavitt's great first week at the podium, and more.Kirk- https://thecharliekirkshow.com/podcasts/the-charlie-kirk-showGrand Canyon University: https://GCU.eduFollow The Megyn Kelly Show on all social platforms:YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/MegynKellyTwitter: http://Twitter.com/MegynKellyShowInstagram: http://Instagram.com/MegynKellyShowFacebook: http://Facebook.com/MegynKellyShow Find out more information at: https://www.devilmaycaremedia.com/megynkellyshow
While Republican senators worked to protect Kash Patel from answering some ver-wee hard questions at his confirmation hearing, not one of them had the audacity to suggest that he is the best person to lead the FBI. Meanwhile, the new administration is clearing out some of the most seasoned and effective veterans at the bureau who will be needed during a crisis. Plus, Elon is trying to get our private financial records at the Treasury Department, and Paramount is so worried that mean Mr. Trump would block a merger deal that it's ready to settle his frivolous, written-in-crayon lawsuit against "60 Minutes." Also, Tim makes an earnest plea to Sen. Bill Cassidy from the heart of New Orleans. Andrew Weissmann joins Tim Miller for the weekend pod. show notes Weissmann's and Mary McCord's podcast, "Main Justice" Weissmann's Substack page Tim's playlist
Editors' Picks:Rich: Phil's post "Bill Cassidy's Finest Hour"Charlie: WFB Jr.'s piece "The Great American Gun War"MBD: Armond's piece "The Day of the Locust Has Finally Arrived"Dominic: Phil's post “Trump's War on Bureaucrats Is the Anti–Student Loan Bailoutt”Light Items:Rich: Rising earlyCharlie: The annual sports desertMBD: Home movie nightDominic: BowlingSponsor:The Witherspoon InstituteThis podcast was edited and produced by Sarah Colleen Schutte.
Thursday, January 30th, 2025Today, the White House has rescinded it's illegal impoundment order for federal spending; the AFGE and NTEU have recommended against federal employees accepting the deferred resignation sent out to all federal employees until they can gather additional information; Elon Musk lackeys have taken over the office of personnel management; the administration has been hit with yet another lawsuit this time over Schedule F implementation; Democrats have flipped a deep red Iowa state senate seat; the USDA Inspector General that was investigating Musk has been physically escorted out of her office; Trump has signed an executive order creating a concentration camp on Guantanamo; US Senator Bob Menendez has been sentenced to 11 years in prison; and Allison and Dana deliver your Good News.Thank You Helix SleepGo to HelixSleep.com/dailybeans for 20% Off Sitewide plus 2 Free Dream Pillows with mattress purchase.Guest: Leigh McGowanThe PoliticsGirl Podcast@politicsgirl.bsky.social - BlueskyPoliticsGirl (@IAmPoliticsGirl) - TwitterFederal workers - feel free to email me at fedoath@pm.me and let me know what you're going to do, or just vent. I'm always here to listen. The Breakdown - Allison Gill | SubstackStories:Trump White House rescinds order freezing federal spending, reversing course - Jeff Stein and Tony Romm | The Washington PostExclusive: USDA inspector general escorted out of her office after defying White House - Rachael Levy | ReutersElon Musk Lackeys Have Taken Over the Office of Personnel Management | WIREDTrump Administration Hit With Another Lawsuit Over Schedule F Order - Matt Cohen | Democracy DocketGood Trouble Call Lisa Murkowski, Susan Collins, Mitch McConnell, and Bill Cassidy and tell them to vote NO NO NO on RFK Jr. Also, it might be a good idea to remind fetterman to vote no. Call all five of them, then please ask a friend to call all five of them. Contacting U.S. SenatorsStates in the SenateHave some good news; a confession; or a correction to share?Good News & Confessions - The Daily Beanshttps://www.dailybeanspod.com/confessional/From The Good NewsZIMMER WINS Senate District-35Reminder - you can see the pod pics if you become a Patron. The good news pics are at the bottom of the show notes of each Patreon episode! That's just one of the perks of subscribing! Check out other MSW Media podcastshttps://mswmedia.com/shows/Subscribe for free to MuellerSheWrote on Substackhttps://muellershewrote.substack.comFollow AG and Dana on Social MediaDr. Allison Gill Substack|Muellershewrote, Twitter|@MuellerSheWrote, Threads|@muellershewrote, TikTok|@muellershewrote, IG|muellershewrote, BlueSky|@muellershewroteDana GoldbergTwitter|@DGComedy, IG|dgcomedy, facebook|dgcomedy, IG|dgcomedy, danagoldberg.com, BlueSky|@dgcomedyHave some good news; a confession; or a correction to share?Good News & Confessions - The Daily Beanshttps://www.dailybeanspod.com/confessional/ Listener Survey:http://survey.podtrac.com/start-survey.aspx?pubid=BffJOlI7qQcF&ver=shortFollow the Podcast on Apple:The Daily Beans on Apple PodcastsWant to support the show and get it ad-free and early?Supercasthttps://dailybeans.supercast.com/Patreon https://patreon.com/thedailybeansOr subscribe on Apple Podcasts with our affiliate linkThe Daily Beans on Apple Podcasts
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