Ro Khanna
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11,126 appearances
151 recordings
40 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard 4d ago
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There was still a congressional debate and a congressional vote.
Trump didn't even talk to Congress.
He just went.
He just did it.
He just went in, sent Delta Force into Caracas, and snatched a sovereign head of state out of his bedroom in his pajamas.
He didn't talk to Congress.
He determined himself in his own mind that fishing boats carrying cocaine were quote-unquote enemy combatants, and they just blew them up.
You don't get a backseat on that one when you kill someone.
So you talk about an expression of power, taking someone's life without any discussion with Congress, without any authorization for the use of military force.
It doesn't really get more profound than that.
And that's before I even get to using levers of government to coerce law firms and universities and all the rest of it.
let's acknowledge all of that.
What is also true is that so far, at least, they have not disobeyed Supreme Court rulings.
There is pretty extensive reporting that they have been, in many cases, either ignoring, disobeying, or fudging around with lower court rulings, particularly on immigration, a lot of examples of that.
And we have a lot of reporting in our book about
how serious the discussions were inside the most senior level of the Trump administration about suspending habeas corpus, one of the most basic human rights you could have, the right if you get locked up by the government to challenge your detention.
Stephen Miller absolutely was looking at wanting to, and Trump himself, suspend that right for illegal immigrants.
And the conversations were so serious, the staff secretary of the White House, Will Scharf, wrote confidential memos to the chief of staff, essentially outlining why this was a line the White House shouldn't cross.
But they didn't cross that line.
Supreme Court decisions on tariffs, they have obeyed.
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