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Kate is joined by Liz Oyer, former DOJ pardon attorney and federal public defender, to tick through last weekβs news. Among the items covered: Todd Blancheβs swearing-in by lackey Emil Bove, the latest attempt by the administration to expand executive privilege, the renewed vendetta against the Fedβs Lisa Cook, and John Robertsβ Substack debutβ¦Thatβs right, the Chief is out here postinβ. Then, a conversation with Julia Angwin and Ami Fields-Meyer about their new book, On Courage: How to Be a Dissident in an Age of Fear. Check out Lizβs podcast, Is This Really Legal?.
Favorite things:
- Kate: Just Securityβs Reinvention Blueprints; One Womanβs Message From the Hell of ICE Detention, Maryam Tahmasebi; John Oliver on the DOJ; Trumpβs catering cart caperΒ
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Liz:How to Rule the World: An Education in Power at Stanford University, Theo Baker; The Things We Never Say, Elizabeth Strout; Ponies (Peacock)
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