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0:00 Intro
0:41 Jack’s experience with presidential power
2:09 Unpacking Trump’s Pentagon and DOJ purges
11:10 Which legal battles could Trump win?
19:51 The Trump-Musk chaos: bug or feature?
27:20 How Trump is putting “unitary executive theory” into practice
36:51 Is a unitary executive unconstitutional?
50:50 Heading to Overtime
Robert Wright (Nonzero, The Evolution of God, Why Buddhism Is True) and Jack Goldsmith (Harvard Law School, In Hoffa's Shadow, https://executivefunctions.substack.com/). Recorded February 24, 2024.
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Overtime titles:
0:00 Looming legal bellwethers
7:53 How Trump’s norm-breaking became normalized
14:39 Jack: The US has always needed a powerful—but restrained—president
20:38 Did America squander the chance to create a lawful world?
23:55 Signs of an authoritarian vibe shift
28:44 The real danger of the Supreme Court’s immunity ruling
36:34 How will SCOTUS handle POTUS?
45:18 The Pandora’s box of Trumpism (and the hope within)
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