Jamie Raskin
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NPR News Now
NPR News: 02-03-2025 8PM EST
This is billions of dollars of work that is being done all over the world, and they're trying to disrupt it and block it. And it comes from Elon Musk, and we don't know exactly what authority he's operating under.
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NPR News: 02-03-2025 6PM EST
This is a killer in terms of their cutoff of HIV and AIDS preemption. It's a killer in terms of anti-malarial education.
PBD Podcast
Trump's Tariffs, Mexico & Canada Cave, DOGE Shuts Down USAID, Zelenskyy's Missing Money | PBD Podcast | Ep. 543
Elon Musk, you didn't create U.S. aid. The United States Congress did for the American people.
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Trump's Tariffs, Mexico & Canada Cave, DOGE Shuts Down USAID, Zelenskyy's Missing Money | PBD Podcast | Ep. 543
Just like Elon Musk did not create U.S. aid. He doesn't have the power to destroy it. And who's going to stop him? We are. We're going to stop him.
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Trump's Tariffs, Mexico & Canada Cave, DOGE Shuts Down USAID, Zelenskyy's Missing Money | PBD Podcast | Ep. 543
Elon Musk, you may have illegally seized power over the financial payment system. You ain't got a four head, you got a five head.
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Trump's Tariffs, Mexico & Canada Cave, DOGE Shuts Down USAID, Zelenskyy's Missing Money | PBD Podcast | Ep. 543
But you don't control the money of the American people. Rob, go to Ilhan's clip.
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Trump's Tariffs, Mexico & Canada Cave, DOGE Shuts Down USAID, Zelenskyy's Missing Money | PBD Podcast | Ep. 543
Why do I think this is happening?
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Trump's Tariffs, Mexico & Canada Cave, DOGE Shuts Down USAID, Zelenskyy's Missing Money | PBD Podcast | Ep. 543
Thank you.
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Well, it's better than D.C. where we say it's not the heat, it's the stupidity.
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Well, first they admitted in court that he was wrongly detained and transported to El Salvador. They confessed it was an administrative error. In public now, they are saying that he was rightfully taken down there and they're making up various stories about him. But he's basically like a disappeared person.
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I mean, that's what happens in authoritarian societies where you'd get swept off the street and then taken to whereabouts unknown. So look, we have the problem that they still have a couple vote majority in the House and in the Senate. But we're going to do everything in our power to get him back, including sending other members down there to go and try to get in.
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But it's a lawless situation and we have to see to it that the Supreme Court's 9-0 decision is actually enforced. There's no argument. for what the administration has done here, none whatsoever, which is why you even had Thomas and Alito and the right wing on the court agreeing there's gotta be due process. Otherwise, we are living in an authoritarian police state.
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If anybody can be swept off the street and just transported to a torturer's prison in another country, then all is lost because if they can do it to a non-citizen, they can do it to a citizen because the only way you can prove you're a citizen is if you have a hearing.
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It's almost certainly unconstitutional. I mean, there was a form of punishment called banishment that existed in the colonial era where people would be banished from their community and exiled. And I suppose that's what they're talking about doing.
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The Supreme Court or any rational Supreme Court, I should say, would probably find that this violates the ban on cruel and unusual punishment in the Eighth Amendment. But in any event, it certainly violates due process to send anybody to a foreign prison or a domestic prison, for that matter, without due process, without a hearing. That's what due process means.
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And these are the two most beautiful words in the English language, because that's what stands between us and us. arbitrary dictatorial power. If anybody were to go down the road of trying to create foreign prisons for American citizens, it would have to be the United States Congress because we are the lawmaking power. So this is another constitutional principle that gets trampled in the process.
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It's not up to the president to just make up some idea of foreign prisons and start it. The Supreme Court said in the Steele seizure case in 1952, the president derives his powers from only two places. One, the Constitution. There's nothing in the Constitution that gives the president the right to do that. And two, an act of Congress authorizing the president to do it.
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And that, of course, has not happened either. So it's a violation of the separation of powers, a usurpation of congressional lawmaking power, and almost certainly a brutal violation of due process. and of the Eighth Amendment ban on cruel and unusual punishment.
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Not very, no. You know, we're living in something like a gangster state right now where people like Eric Prince think that they've got the right to take taxpayer resources to set up offshore prisons and justice systems or injustice systems that have nothing to do with the American rule of law and due process.
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So I imagine that they look at Guantanamo Bay as some kind of towering example of what they'd like to reproduce all over the world. We have to stop that, obviously, to prevent a slide into complete dictatorship. Look, Donald Trump is a convicted criminal. Could he be sent off to a foreign prison? You know, you're separating people from their families.
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You're separating people from their lawyers, implicating the right to counsel. And you're engaging in a form of punishment, banishment, which hasn't been seen for centuries, really.
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Well, that's right. You know, we should be talking about cutting off aid to El Salvador right now. The whole idea. that Bukele doesn't have any power to return an American prisoner who was sent to him under an agreement where he's getting paid $6 million by America is ridiculous. He's our legal agent in this dubious arrangement they've created. Of course he's got the power to return them.
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So he and Trump are just acting like a couple of dictators having fun at the expense of A man's life and his family, and they want to be able to do that all over the place. So I like that idea. And it's a compliment to something that we need to be doing right now, which is engaged, engaging in far more work.
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of transnational democratic solidarity with the democratic governments and the democratic movements and peoples and parties of the world to try to prevent the spread of the lawlessness and the fascist chaos that's been unleashed against us. But implicit in it should be the idea that if and when we come back to power, and we will,
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This Is the Fight Democrats Need To Have
We are not going to look kindly upon people who facilitated, to use a word of the day, who facilitated authoritarianism in our country. That's an assault on our Constitution and on our people.
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My response is we're going to beat them on all fronts. We're going to beat them on the tariffs, which were economically catastrophic for our country and for the world and utterly destabilizing of world trade and also lawless and unconstitutional outside of the president's powers. We're going to beat them on his massive assaults on the rights of federal workers and the civil service.
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And we're going to beat them in court and in the court of public opinion on their assaults on the due process rights of people in America, whether they're citizens or non-citizens. In other words, we can't ration justice here. And this is why we need all hands on deck and everybody needs to be fighting at every turn, every battle. And, you know, a victory for one is a victory for all.
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And, you know, we're going to hang together or we're going to hang separately and we're going to hang together.
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I mean, it's totally scandalous situation with the assault on free speech. It is like the Alien and Sedition Act period of the late 1790s, where the attack on immigrants became an attack on people considered political enemies of the government dissidents. And I'm very cheered by the tremendous support that she is getting and that all of these students are getting across the board here.
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In fact, there are a lot of Jewish student groups who are coming out very strongly and speaking up for her and Mahmoud Khalil and others who are the subject of outrageous criticism. government harassment and retaliation simply because of their speech. They wrote an op-ed, they appeared at a rally.
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And what's fascinating is unlike the hundreds of violent insurrectionists, Proud Boys, Oath Keepers, extremists who Donald Trump pardoned, people who violently assaulted police officers, none of these people engaged in any violence at all. Right. All they had done was to write an op-ed or to speak in a way that is officially disapproved by our new authoritarians in America.
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So it's very important as a matter of civil liberties for everybody to speak up for them. And especially I've been moved over the last few days to see the Jewish groups coming out and saying, don't try to deport these people and destroy their lives and uproot them in the name of fighting anti-Semitism.
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You're not doing anything about anti-Semitism and you're going to inflame things much worse in the country by what you're doing.
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Well, apparently some of these students who've been targeted by ICE for removal were first identified by various right-wing projects allegedly pursuing anti-Semitism. But, you know, on that understanding, you just identified...
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there are people who are being called anti-Semites simply for speaking out for a two-state solution and recognition of human rights on the Palestinian side and the Israeli side and the necessity for mutual security. I mean, that's just scandalous.
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And so this is a period like Salem witchcraft trials where you can just fling that charge at someone and then the right wing thinks that that's the end of the discussion. But I do think that the country is waking up
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I think about what Jefferson said in that beautiful letter he wrote in 1798 to his friend John Taylor, who was expressing his consternation about what was going on in the country during that time. And Jefferson said, "...a little patience in the reign of witches shall pass over, their spells dissolve, and the people recovering their true sight restore their government to its true principles."
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Let's hope that the reign of witches is passing over.
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Everybody's got to summon up all of their institutional resources and personal courage to fight back as much as you can. And I'm very proud of Harvard, I got to say. And I'm speaking as a graduate of the college and the law school. And I spent a lot of my years in school fighting against Harvard because they refused to divest their money from Apartheid South Africa.
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And they were just totally on the wrong side there. And I called them out. And I was ashamed that Harvard did not do the right thing and follow what Nelson Mandela and Bishop Tutu and the people struggling for freedom there were asking for. But I've got to say in this situation, I'm beaming with pride about Harvard standing up.
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Look, Donald Trump spent a lot of time in real estate in New York City, a lot of time in casinos in Atlantic City. He knows what a mob shakedown is. This is a mob shakedown against the universities. It's a mob shakedown against the law firms, against lawyers. And he's seeing how far he can push it.
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And it's undoubtedly a terrifying thing for, you know, even big law firms to go through, even big universities to go through. But now is the moment when you get to prove why you're a lawyer. Now you get to prove why you're a college president or a university administrator. You can stand up for academic freedom. You can stand up for the Constitution. And these judges are proving why they're judges.
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There are 78 preliminary injunctions. and temporary restraining orders right now against the lawlessness and the chaos unleashed by Donald Trump. And they're threatening judges. And you go online, you see all kinds of violent threats against judges. Justice Amy Coney Barrett's sister got a bomb threat.
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There are other people on the Supreme Court and other judges who've received death threats that are taking place. And I've got colleagues who have wanted posters up outside of their offices in the Cannon House office building. These judges are wanted and they want to impeach them just for standing in Donald Trump's way.
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They never tell you, by the way, substantively what's wrong with a particular opinion.
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Like what's wrong with the four opinions rendered against Donald Trump's attempt to nullify birthright citizenship in America? One from an Obama judge, one from a Biden judge, one from a Reagan judge, and one from a Bush judge. And the Reagan judge said, this is the easiest case I've decided in four decades on the bench. This is blatantly unconstitutional.
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The first sentence of the 14th Amendment reads, all persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof are citizens of the United States. Like, what don't you understand about that? You don't even have to be a lawyer. You just have to know how to read to get that. And these judges are just like over the top angry about what's going on.
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And yet they turn around and say there's something wrong with the judges. They're saying, well, we got to impeach them, I think. I mean, everybody in the administration, J.D. Vance, all of them. Trump tweeted about impeaching them. They say, this is a record number of court decisions against a president, a record number of injunctions against a president.
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Yes, and it's a record number of violations of the Constitution by a president. So if you don't like this tsunami, they call it, of opinions against the president, then call off your tsunami constitutional crime wave against the American people.
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Well, I think it's a hopelessly vague and abstract term. So when people say, are we in a constitutional crisis? I say we are experiencing an unprecedented impact. sweeping and comprehensive attack on the Constitution by the presidential administration.
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And so we have to defend every element of the Constitution, due process, equal protection, freedom of speech, the separation of powers, congressional powers, judicial independence, and so on. So, I mean, I suppose it's in the eye of the beholder. If it feels like a crisis to you, it's a crisis. But the point is, it's under attack, and we've got to defend it.
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Well, I believe that Heather Mazier got, I think it was a 54 to 46 in the first district of Maryland. So we're closing in on the target. There are a lot of people from my district in Montgomery County, in the DC area, in the Baltimore area, moving to the Eastern Shore in retirement. And there's an incredible new Eastern Shore indivisible group that I met with
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So we don't give up on any congressional district or any state legislative district. We won that great state Senate race in Pennsylvania that nobody expected us to win the Wisconsin race. And even in Florida, we were disappointed that we didn't win those two House seats. But we went up 15 or 16 points, which then builds for the future. So no good act is wasted in this process.
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And there were some very creative political art representations at that event. When I went out there, they brought up a huge milk carton with Andy Harris's face on it. And I just said, hey, if your name is on the ballot, your face should not be on the milk carton.
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Well, let's just say that because we're experiencing an authoritarian, attempted authoritarian takeover of American society, the job has changed, right? There were people on all sides who thought the job is you stay in touch with your constituents and you go and you push a red button or a green button and that's your job. That's not our job anymore. We are organizers.
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We are organizers and we've got to be leaders of a nationwide popular movement to arrest the dissent into fascism in America. And we haven't even gotten a chance to talk about Elon Musk and the Silicon Valley people because these people really believe that democracy is defunct. And they say we live in a post-constitutional America.
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And, you know, if you if you listen to their intellectual guru, Curtis Yarvin, he did an interview with The New York Times about a month ago where he said the American people have got to get over their fear of the word dictatorship. He said, the corporations are just dictatorships of the CEO.
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And just like we have CEOs dictatorships in the private sector, we need to have a dictator for the government. And by the way, that dictator does not serve the people. That dictator serves the other dictators. They're talking about a corporate state. And they're being very unvarnished and explicit about it. So our jobs have changed.
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It's not enough just to go and cast our votes and to write a monthly newsletter. We've got to be involved seven days a week in the struggle to defend constitutional democracy in America. And when I say that. I believe constitutional democracy is not just a structure of laws and constitutional principles and practices.
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It is that, but it's more than that because constitutional democracy is always an unfolding and unfinished project. And if we're not moving forward, like Tocqueville warned in democracy in America, we're going to be lapsing back into some other autocratic or monarchical aristocratic form of government. We got to be moving forward. So, um, You know, you got to hand it to Donald Trump.
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At least he's talking about Greenland and Canada and Panama. He's not talking about anything democratic. He's talking about taking them over like a dictator. Well, we've got to put on the agenda the millions of disenfranchised people in America. We need statehood for Washington, D.C. We need statehood for Puerto Rico. We need a constitutional amendment guaranteeing everybody a right to vote.
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We need to pass the John Lewis Voting Rights Act. We can't be in a constant quicksand struggle against voter suppression tactics. And they're trying it again. for 2026 and 2028, and the SAVE Act, which would conceivably disenfranchise millions of American women, because you've got to show, when you go to the polls now, your birth certificate, your driver's license, or a passport.
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And if they don't match your birth certificate, then you've got to show your marriage certificate. And 80% of American women changed their last name. So they've got to bring their marriage certificate along with everything else. It's just more obstacles to voting for the people that they think are not going to vote for them. So we've got to deal with that. So I just believe...
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I'm kind of with John Dewey, who said that the only solution to the ills of democracy is more democracy. And what we're suffering from today is not democracy, but it's all of these attacks on it and all of these obstacles to it. But we do need to be not just legislative representatives today.
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you know, which is hard enough, but we've got to be movement leaders along with everybody in the streets and everybody in the state capitals and the city halls and the church halls and the union halls across America.
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It's great to be with you, Tommy. Keep up the great work because the press is not the enemy of the people. The press is the people's best friend. Agreed. And we need you. Thank you.
The Ben Shapiro Show
Ep. 2171 - Who Shot JFK?
I call on them to demand that the Trump administration comply with all judicial orders while appealing whichever ones they want to appeal and to demand the return of people unlawfully taken to El Salvador on that so-called plane full of gangbangers.
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Jordan Peterson Reveals Crucial Differences Between Mothers & Fathers | Parenting
Well, we just gave him everything. Everything. Okay.
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Jordan Peterson Reveals Crucial Differences Between Mothers & Fathers | Parenting
And we just don't want our five-year-old to follow in the same footsteps. Like, see that as an example to grow up as.
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Ep. 2191 - SHAKE-UP At The White House
We know how to remove people from the country who should not be here. President Biden's administration did that. We know how to do it legally, consistent with the Bill of Rights and the Constitution. He was sent to the dictator of El Salvador because he has a tattoo on his right arm, which was mistakenly associated with Trend de Aragua.
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Ep. 2191 - SHAKE-UP At The White House
In fact, the tattoo is of a soccer ball topped with a crown, which signifies his favorite soccer club, Real Madrid. Had there been any kind of due process fair hearing, he would have been able quickly to explain the government's error. And there being no other evidence against him, he would have been released.
The Briefing with Jen Psaki
Trump's power grab scheme exposed; Supreme Court birthright citizenship case focuses on court powers
Yeah, I mean, he's the Roger Stone kind of aide-de-camp. He's willing to say and do anything for Donald Trump. His theory of the 14th Amendment is utterly fraudulent. It's been debunked not just by the Supreme Court throughout history, but by four district courts, two judges appointed by Democrats, Biden and Obama, two judges appointed by Republicans, Bush and Reagan.
The Briefing with Jen Psaki
Trump's power grab scheme exposed; Supreme Court birthright citizenship case focuses on court powers
And the Reagan judge said, in his four decades on the bench, he never had an easier case than this, because Donald Trump was attempting to, by executive order, repudiate the first sentence of the 14th Amendment of the Constitution, which says, all persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof are citizens of the United States.
The Briefing with Jen Psaki
Trump's power grab scheme exposed; Supreme Court birthright citizenship case focuses on court powers
It's just an open and shut case, which isn't to say that lawyers cannot, you know, convoke and conjure up, you know, all kinds of figments of their imagination. And undoubtedly, you know, Thomas and Alito will fall for that. But I hope The vast majority of the court will stand by precedent going back to 1868 when the amendment was passed.
The Briefing with Jen Psaki
Trump's power grab scheme exposed; Supreme Court birthright citizenship case focuses on court powers
And the first challenge to that was 30 years later in 1898 in the Wong Kim Sum case. And the Supreme Court again emphatically said everybody born here is a citizen of the United States. They were rejecting the Dred Scott definition of racial citizenship. in the country, which was that it's hereditary by virtue of race, as opposed to hereditary by virtue of being born in the country.
The Briefing with Jen Psaki
Trump's power grab scheme exposed; Supreme Court birthright citizenship case focuses on court powers
But that was the new vision adopted by the radical Republicans. Everybody fought on the union side in the Civil War and by the Supreme Court ever since.
The Briefing with Jen Psaki
Trump's power grab scheme exposed; Supreme Court birthright citizenship case focuses on court powers
Well, when the merits appear to be hopeless for Donald Trump—and remember, Jen, he's lost 156 preliminary injunctions and temporary restraining orders since this whole nightmare began. The federal courts are acting with a lot of muscle and determination to shut down this reign of lawlessness and authoritarianism.
The Briefing with Jen Psaki
Trump's power grab scheme exposed; Supreme Court birthright citizenship case focuses on court powers
What the conservatives are doing to try to avoid another loss on the merits, which is obvious here, is to find some procedural off-ramp that they can take to avoid that outcome.
The Briefing with Jen Psaki
Trump's power grab scheme exposed; Supreme Court birthright citizenship case focuses on court powers
And here they, I think, are hoping to deliver a mini-victory to Donald Trump by saying they're going to wipe out nationwide injunctions by federal district courts, which would be a completely absurd and inefficient thing to do. It's like saying, You know, everybody who's suing about race segregation in the courts has got to go to court him or herself.
The Briefing with Jen Psaki
Trump's power grab scheme exposed; Supreme Court birthright citizenship case focuses on court powers
And you can't rely on, you know, Linda Brown or a hypothetical plaintiff today to do it for everybody. So, that would mean, in this birthright citizenship case, every family affected by it would have to go to court, bringing tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of cases across the country. It just doesn't make any sense.
The Briefing with Jen Psaki
Trump's power grab scheme exposed; Supreme Court birthright citizenship case focuses on court powers
And that's not how we've operated, certainly not how the Republicans thought things should be under Joe Biden, when they brought lots of claims for nationwide relief in federal district courts across the land.
The Briefing with Jen Psaki
Trump's power grab scheme exposed; Supreme Court birthright citizenship case focuses on court powers
Don't forget that Judge Kaczmarek in the Northern District of Texas, who's the sole judge in the Northern District, so the right-wingers were lining up around the block to get into his court because they knew he would rule for them. And then they asked for a nationwide injunction on things like Mifepristone.
The Briefing with Jen Psaki
Trump's power grab scheme exposed; Supreme Court birthright citizenship case focuses on court powers
So they've used it to their advantage in the past, and now they're trying to pull a rabbit out of the hat to save Donald Trump.
The Briefing with Jen Psaki
Trump's power grab scheme exposed; Supreme Court birthright citizenship case focuses on court powers
Sure. It's like they want to impeach all of the federal judges, Democrats and Republican appointee judges, who have entered all of these injunctions against Donald Trump.
The Briefing with Jen Psaki
Trump's power grab scheme exposed; Supreme Court birthright citizenship case focuses on court powers
Like Chief Judge Boasberg of the District Court in the District of Columbia, they really want to impeach him and get rid of him, because he was the one who said, turn the airplanes around and come back and give those people due process. And when they didn't, he's the one who's been saying, I find you improbable cause of contempt of this court. and show cause why you shouldn't be sanctioned.
The Briefing with Jen Psaki
Trump's power grab scheme exposed; Supreme Court birthright citizenship case focuses on court powers
And that has set now the standard for judges around the country dealing with the complete lawlessness and authoritarian attitudes coming out of the Trump administration. But you're right. If Congress gets in their way, they just bypass Congress, unfortunately, with the collusion and the cooperation of our Republican colleagues. When the courts get in the way, they defy the authority of the courts.
The Briefing with Jen Psaki
Trump's power grab scheme exposed; Supreme Court birthright citizenship case focuses on court powers
They say they're going to impeach the judges, and now they want to try to remove a tool that judges have had for decades. By the way, nationwide injunctions are fairly rarely used. Judges use them when they think there is an order that is violating the constitutional rights of everybody in the country.
The Briefing with Jen Psaki
Trump's power grab scheme exposed; Supreme Court birthright citizenship case focuses on court powers
And, of course, it would be ridiculously inefficient to say everybody has to go out and sue to overturn an executive order that violates the rights of the people. It violates the basic concept of the rule of law, where you work your way up to the Supreme Court, and then the Supreme Court can decide. In fact, these cases debunk the idea that it takes too long.
The Briefing with Jen Psaki
Trump's power grab scheme exposed; Supreme Court birthright citizenship case focuses on court powers
These cases are just sailing through the system and getting up to the Supreme Court.
The Daily Show: Ears Edition
Unpacking NOLA and Cybertruck Attacks & An Unusually Civil Jan. 6 | Rep. Jamie Raskin
Yeah, well, luckily it was snowing outside, so all the insurrectionists were slipping and falling on the road and everything. But no, today was actually a totally uneventful and peaceful and nonviolent day. It's what January 6th should be. And it's what it used to be like, I suppose.
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Unpacking NOLA and Cybertruck Attacks & An Unusually Civil Jan. 6 | Rep. Jamie Raskin
Yeah, I mean, the whole thing took, like, maybe 25 minutes. It should have taken 15 minutes, but some of our Republican colleagues confused it with the Republican National Convention, and they were cheering and applauding and yelling. We were just there to count the votes. And we were not there to continue the campaign.
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Unpacking NOLA and Cybertruck Attacks & An Unusually Civil Jan. 6 | Rep. Jamie Raskin
But yeah, I mean, I talked to my friend Lauren Boebert and I asked her how she enjoyed it. And she said it was great because no Democrats had made any objections. And I said it was terrific because nobody tried to assassinate the vice president. And so, you know, we were all happy with how it went.
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Unpacking NOLA and Cybertruck Attacks & An Unusually Civil Jan. 6 | Rep. Jamie Raskin
Lauren's actually very funny, you know, like it's sort of like the Beatles and the Rolling Stones. You're either a Marjorie Taylor Greene person or you're a Lauren Boebert person. And I'm a Lauren Boebert person myself, although they call her Lauren Gropert, which really isn't fair. So.
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Unpacking NOLA and Cybertruck Attacks & An Unusually Civil Jan. 6 | Rep. Jamie Raskin
They've got a much narrower margin now. So I think we're down to 219 to 215 because Matt Gaetz left and then Elise Stefanik's on her way out and Mike Walls. Oh, I appreciate that cheer. And so it'll be 217. to 215, which means they cannot afford to lose a single vote.
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Unpacking NOLA and Cybertruck Attacks & An Unusually Civil Jan. 6 | Rep. Jamie Raskin
And they've already suffered the defection of Congresswoman Sparks from Indiana, who got so mad about the fact that she wasn't put on the committee she wanted that she has left the Republican conference and is an independent now. And we haven't even started deliberations yet.
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Unpacking NOLA and Cybertruck Attacks & An Unusually Civil Jan. 6 | Rep. Jamie Raskin
So I think we're going to be in good shape to exploit some of the conflicts and contradictions going on within the Republican conference. I think you probably saw, John, that the enraged, nativist, racist mega base is upset with Elon Musk and the brologarcs who want to bring in tens of thousands more cheap foreign laborers.
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Unpacking NOLA and Cybertruck Attacks & An Unusually Civil Jan. 6 | Rep. Jamie Raskin
And so that's something that's already starting to explode in terms of the Republican politics. But there's a bunch of issues like that, including abortion, where there's still some libertarians who don't want to go near it. But the theocratic majority within MAGA, led by Mike Johnson, say that life begins at conception.
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Unpacking NOLA and Cybertruck Attacks & An Unusually Civil Jan. 6 | Rep. Jamie Raskin
and so they've been trying to ban it nationally, and we expect that to come back, and hopefully we'll be able to pull over some of the lingering pro-choice Republicans.
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Unpacking NOLA and Cybertruck Attacks & An Unusually Civil Jan. 6 | Rep. Jamie Raskin
Yeah, it does. Because over on the Senate side, they've got the filibuster. So each senator theoretically can throw a monkey wrench into the whole thing. Whereas, you know, we've got our rules committee and we adopt the rule and the rule is usually whatever the majority wants. In fact, they wrote the first partisan bill.
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Unpacking NOLA and Cybertruck Attacks & An Unusually Civil Jan. 6 | Rep. Jamie Raskin
discrimination into House rules and history, saying that they're going from one person to move to vacate to seven members moving to vacate. But they've got to be from the majority party. So it would be like saying, you know, only Republicans can move to adjourn. were moved to reconsider a vote, but they voted for that.
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Unpacking NOLA and Cybertruck Attacks & An Unusually Civil Jan. 6 | Rep. Jamie Raskin
And one of my new colleagues, actually from Rhode Island, said, this is outrageous. This violates equal production. Let's go to the Supreme Court. And I was like, yeah, we've been there. We've done that. The Roberts Court is not exactly all over these unconstitutional...
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Unpacking NOLA and Cybertruck Attacks & An Unusually Civil Jan. 6 | Rep. Jamie Raskin
Yeah, I mean, fortunately, they're more divided than they are even hateful of us. So they can't get together to get anything done. If you look at the last Congress, the only way that we kept the government afloat and going was Democrats coming in to bail out Mike Johnson. And I think it's going to be the same thing. I do think there could be some issues where we get together.
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Unpacking NOLA and Cybertruck Attacks & An Unusually Civil Jan. 6 | Rep. Jamie Raskin
For example, Donald Trump is very proud of the fact that He beat Kamala by 3 million votes. And we are proud of the fact that Joe Biden beat Donald Trump by 7 million votes in 2020. But if they're proud of the popular vote, why don't we get rid of the Electoral College and start electing the president the way we elect everybody else, like representatives and senators and mayors and governors?
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Unpacking NOLA and Cybertruck Attacks & An Unusually Civil Jan. 6 | Rep. Jamie Raskin
Why don't we actually come together and step forward? I mean, the Electoral College can get you killed these days, as we saw in 2020. And it's given us five popular vote losers in our history twice in this century, Donald Trump and George W. Bush. So let's move forward on that. Why don't we get together on that?
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Unpacking NOLA and Cybertruck Attacks & An Unusually Civil Jan. 6 | Rep. Jamie Raskin
Yes, and being in the minority definitely is a lot more fun. And it invites a lot of creativity. And it's, you know, it's a riot in the pre-January 6th sense of the word.
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Unpacking NOLA and Cybertruck Attacks & An Unusually Civil Jan. 6 | Rep. Jamie Raskin
But look, we we now have the opportunity to organize for massive Democratic victory in 2026. And that's exactly what we're doing, because we think that everywhere they're headed is so extreme that the vast majority of the American people are going to reject it. Most Americans do not want to ban abortion across the country. Most Americans do not want to deport 12 million people.
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Unpacking NOLA and Cybertruck Attacks & An Unusually Civil Jan. 6 | Rep. Jamie Raskin
Most Americans don't want to turn the Department of Justice into an instrument of revenge and retaliation. And we're going to be standing up every single day, John, for the Constitution, the Bill of Rights and the freedoms and rights of the people.
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Unpacking NOLA and Cybertruck Attacks & An Unusually Civil Jan. 6 | Rep. Jamie Raskin
I mean, look, I think it's going to come from all over the country. I think it's going to come from Democracy Summer, the project we've got for young people all over America to learn about the history of social change in the country and to get involved in digital organizing and canvassing and organizing. And You know, it might come from our two new states.
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Unpacking NOLA and Cybertruck Attacks & An Unusually Civil Jan. 6 | Rep. Jamie Raskin
And I'm not talking about Panama and Greenland. I'm talking about Washington, D.C. and Puerto Rico, which we are fighting to admit as new states.
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Unpacking NOLA and Cybertruck Attacks & An Unusually Civil Jan. 6 | Rep. Jamie Raskin
That is that does not sound like you are. Well, I invite you to come and appear. I think you'll find something very different. I mean, these young people.
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Unpacking NOLA and Cybertruck Attacks & An Unusually Civil Jan. 6 | Rep. Jamie Raskin
If you have a retreat, oh, would I love to come down there and... All right, you will be our guest comedic speaker at Democracy Summit.
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Unpacking NOLA and Cybertruck Attacks & An Unusually Civil Jan. 6 | Rep. Jamie Raskin
All right. Well, look, I got to tell you what we've got. I should have brought it with me, but we've got the most beautiful poster in the world that Shepard Fairey made for us. He's the guy who did the Obama hope poster. He made a democracy summer poster for us. The future really is with the young people and we need them. And there's a major battle going on for young America right now.
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Unpacking NOLA and Cybertruck Attacks & An Unusually Civil Jan. 6 | Rep. Jamie Raskin
And we need hard.
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Unpacking NOLA and Cybertruck Attacks & An Unusually Civil Jan. 6 | Rep. Jamie Raskin
Well, there's no doubt that the right-wing social media outlets and the talk shows and the podcasts have been targeting young men, especially. And so that's why, look, I'm a 62-year-old grandfather now, which means I'm in the younger part of the party in Congress. But my kids are in their 20s, okay?
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Unpacking NOLA and Cybertruck Attacks & An Unusually Civil Jan. 6 | Rep. Jamie Raskin
And I know what's going on with young people in their 20s and they're being targeted and we need to organize. And as the GOP turns itself into a cult,
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Unpacking NOLA and Cybertruck Attacks & An Unusually Civil Jan. 6 | Rep. Jamie Raskin
with authoritarian habits of submission and obedience to authority, we have got to be a lot more like an open school for America to come in and to get educated about what's really going on and to feed people not lies and conspiracy theories, but facts and the truth. So I invite you very much, Jon Stewart, to come out. You'll be our kickoff speaker for Democracy Summer 2025.
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Unpacking NOLA and Cybertruck Attacks & An Unusually Civil Jan. 6 | Rep. Jamie Raskin
Well, you know, it's a process for trying to figure it out. It's not like the election's over on November 5 and November 6. You know exactly what happened. I mean, it's a complicated situation. But, you know, I'll tell you that everybody is very serious about trying to figure out both substantively.
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Unpacking NOLA and Cybertruck Attacks & An Unusually Civil Jan. 6 | Rep. Jamie Raskin
what went wrong, but also what went wrong in terms of not connecting with different communications audiences out there. And as you know, it's not like the mainstream media is the mainstream media anymore. Everybody's getting their news and their ideas in different places. And we do have to be a lot better about getting in front of the different audiences that have grown up in this new system.
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Unpacking NOLA and Cybertruck Attacks & An Unusually Civil Jan. 6 | Rep. Jamie Raskin
I'll tell you one funny story about January 7th, because my kids always say that I get really depressing when I talk about the 6th, and I've got one really funny story, which is the next day I was down in Nancy Pelosi's office and I was waiting in the little receptionist area, and the receptionist picks up the phone, And people are calling in saying, you know, I was in your office yesterday.
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Unpacking NOLA and Cybertruck Attacks & An Unusually Civil Jan. 6 | Rep. Jamie Raskin
Do you guys have a lost and found? Because I think I forgot my phone there. I think I forgot my purse there. And so she didn't know what to do. And I said, yeah, let's get in touch with the Capitol Police. So they came over and they started writing everything down. Yeah, just give us your name, your social security number, your address, and we'll get to your property back.
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Unpacking NOLA and Cybertruck Attacks & An Unusually Civil Jan. 6 | Rep. Jamie Raskin
Officials say the man who blew up a Tesla Cybertruck outside a Vegas Trump Hotel expressed support for President-elect Donald Trump and Elon Musk.
The Dan Bongino Show
Something Suspicious Is Happening At The Pentagon | Episode 27
Should he stop using the app?
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Something Suspicious Is Happening At The Pentagon | Episode 27
I like that idea. And it it's a complement to something that we need to be doing right now, which is engaged, engaging in far more work of transnational democratic solidarity with the democratic governments and the democratic movements and peoples and parties of the world.
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Something Suspicious Is Happening At The Pentagon | Episode 27
can't leave soon enough national democratic solidarity with the democratic governments and the democratic movements and peoples and parties of the world to um try to prevent the spread of the lawlessness and the fascist chaos that's been unleashed against us but implicit in it should be the idea that the what does he say the fascism and the lawless chaos that's been unleashed against us
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Something Suspicious Is Happening At The Pentagon | Episode 27
Prevent the spread of the lawlessness and the fascist chaos that's been unleashed against us. But implicit in it should be the idea that if and when we come back to power, and we will, we are not going to look kindly upon people
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Something Suspicious Is Happening At The Pentagon | Episode 27
uh who facilitated to use uh a word of the day who facilitated um authoritarianism in our country that's an assault on our constitution and on our people this is a perversion of language that you're listening to but his intent is crystal clear his intent is crystal clear we're not going to look kindly upon our political opponents
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Ep. 1529 - Democrats PANIC After Their Horrifying Money Laundering Scheme Was Revealed
Elon Musk, you didn't create USAID. The United States Congress did for the American people. And just like Elon Musk did not create USAID, he doesn't have the power to destroy it. And who's going to stop him? We are. We're going to stop him. And just like the president who is elected to something cannot impound the money of the people, we don't have a fourth branch of government called Elon Musk.
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Ep. 1529 - Democrats PANIC After Their Horrifying Money Laundering Scheme Was Revealed
And that's going to become real clear.
The MeidasTouch Podcast
Fed Up Dems Smack Down Trump for Total Failure
He gave us the right to speak freely, to publish. freely, to worship freely, to assemble freely, and to petition government for a redress of grievances. As Dr. Ting said, we've got the right to protest for what is right without being arrested, deported, or fired. We've got the right to read the books we want
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including 1984 and The Handmaid's Tale, even if they now belong in the non-fiction section. We've even got the right to call the president deranged for crashing our economy, destroying $6 trillion of wealth, and turning 5401K into
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The Department of Education is tasked with protecting disabled students across America. And Jamie Raskin, for example, is all out there saying, how are you going to defend this? So let me ask you.
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Wall Street Turns Against Trump Way Too Late!!
An economic tool. That's it. They're an economic weapon, you know, depending how you use it and why you use it and stuff like that. And, you know, people argue, is it inflationary and non-inflationary? I would put in perspective, if it's a little inflationary, but it's good for national security, so be it. I mean, get over it. National security trumps a little bit more inflation.
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Trump gets News He Feared this AM as Protests Rage
gave us the right to speak freely, to publish freely, to worship freely, to assemble freely, and to petition government for a redress of grievances. As Dr. King said, we've got the right to protest for what is right without being arrested, deported, or fired. We got the right to read the books we want, including 1984 and The Handmaid's Tale, even if they now belong in the non-fiction section.
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We've even got the right to call the president deranged for crashing our economy, destroying $6 trillion of wealth, and turning 5401K into a 201K.
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Fox Viewers Freak Out Over Trump’s Early Disasters
The administration took the position in court this week that Elon Musk is not the head of Doge and is not leading Doge. So who is leading Doge? Is it the young man who calls himself Big Balls? Is it the racist on the night crew who's proud of the fact that he was a racist before all of his friends were racist and says that we should legitimize Indian hate? Who is Doge?
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Major Leaks Cripple Trump as Paranoia Spreads
And... Speaker Johnson's chief of staff got into his car and drove at 38 miles per hour and plowed in the back of a police vehicle and staggered out. And the police found him and he was determined to have been drunk. And that was when I realized that they've replaced DEI hires with DUI hires. And you see the health secretary, Hegseth, and a lot of other people who can
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Major Leaks Cripple Trump as Paranoia Spreads
who can actually be promoted to the highest levels of this government with the most irresponsible personal behavior. But they all happen to be white guys. So they pass the test of not being DEI.
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Major Leaks Cripple Trump as Paranoia Spreads
Why can that happen? On Pete Hanks' end, in this IG investigation, do you want to weigh in on that? What is it?
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Major Leaks Cripple Trump as Paranoia Spreads
Oh, is that, you're bringing that up again? Don't bring that up again. You're editing this from a, that's such a wasted story. So what else? Chinese farmland.
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Massive Protests Take USA by Storm
Well, my congressional district is in Maryland, and it borders Washington, D.C., so we have tens of thousands of people from Maryland who've come down here. So this is the one I did, even though I was in Florida, actually, with Maxwell Frost for the rest of the weekend. So this demonstration across the country, with more than a thousand different protests, is going to...
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Massive Protests Take USA by Storm
is going to further catalyze popular resistance and opposition to this deranged program that they're imposing on the country.
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Massive Protests Take USA by Storm
So what's your message to them? We are winning in the courts. Like, for example, they fired tens of thousands of probationary employees, which was completely lawless. And so they've been restored theoretically to their jobs, but they're not letting them go back to work. They are giving them pay, but they're not having them do their jobs, which is absurd.
The MeidasTouch Podcast
Massive Protests Take USA by Storm
But we're going to fight for them to get their jobs back. And then we are going to make sure that people who've lost their jobs, who can't get their jobs back, are part of this movement against authoritarianism in the country. Congressman, thank you so much.
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Massive Protests Take USA by Storm
Children who were segregated into schools.