The

The Hello and welcome to Behind the News. My name is Doug Henwood.

In these deranged times, a derangement of

the Behind the News order. Three guests in three segments today. I'd like to promise a return to

normalcy next week, but there's just no certainty anymore. We'll hear from Samuel Moyne on Trump

in the courts, Chris Mizano on the social base of the Democratic Party, and Virginia Kovda on the

late and post-Soviet feel of

hipster political culture today.

Lots of MAGA haters are looking to the courts to stop Trump.

Is that the right place to look?

Or is that view of the judiciary as savior part of what got us to this sorry point in the

first place?

Here to explore these questions is Samuel Moyne, a professor of law and history at Yale. Sam has been a tough

critic of the role of the judiciary in our political life. He's making his eighth appearance of

behind the news, and several of those previous appearances were devoted to the idea of reining in the

court's power to overturn laws passed by Congress, notably the Supreme Court with its long

anti-democratic history. I wondered how he feels about Trump's possible defiance of court orders from a political perspective very different from his, Samuel Moyne.

Has Trump violated a court order yet?

No. You know, especially not from the Supreme Court, which everyone is saying is going to be the ultimate test.

Now, it's true that there was one example with the flights to El Salvador of probably slow walking

the response, a bit of mendacity.

But I don't think that counts.

...