Aaron Retica

actual practicing lawyer in Nazi Germany until 1938, like defending dissidents in court, right?

But meanwhile, he was secretly writing a book called The Dual State.

And David, do you want to pick up from there and just explain what it is and why it's relevant to René Goode?

This brings us to question of power over – we've been talking about power over everything, dominion in every way.

And that also brings us to the case of Lisa Cook, which the oral argument was heard this morning.

Lisa Cook is on the Federal Reserve Board –

Trump fired her.

And there are all kinds of crazy things about this case.

But the court seemed like it was not going to go along with this.

So I actually, Emily, want you to answer two questions.

One is sort of what you think is going to happen specifically with Lisa Cook and the Federal Reserve and why the Federal Reserve, among all these agencies, is somehow involved.

exempt from the court's other rulings where it does seem to have been like, yeah, sure, fire whoever you want, right?

But also this question of is the court trying to carve out a space for presidential power, a conception of presidential power that is not quite as absolute as what appeared to be the case when they released the immunity decision in 2024?

Let's talk about this as the exception that proves the rule, though, in a way, right?

If the Federal Reserve is

the part of the government that he can't mess with.

Nonetheless, in almost every other way, right, they have licensed him to do almost anything he wants to do.

And as Emily was saying, their imaginative idea of what the presidency should be

appears to exceed even the bounds of the unitary executive theory that they used to love.

But I want to actually use this to turn to, we asked the last time you guys were together online, we asked readers to send in their questions.