The President vs. The Courts (Some Sunday Context)

This Day in Esoteric Political History

Jody Avirgan & Radiotopia

History

4.6 • 982 Ratings

🗓️ 16 February 2025

⏱️ 50 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Donald Trump has issued a flurry of executive orders, and Elon Musk is slashing and burning state capacity. But the courts, Congress, and public opinion may also have something to say about it.

Welcome to "Some Sunday Context" series for Febraury 16th, 2025. Every Sunday, we try and bring you an episode that offers a little historical perspective on what we're seeing in Donald Trump's second term.

Today: Jody, Niki, and Kellie discuss how Trump and Musk are testing -- and sometimes defying -- the limits of executive power. We also look to Andrew Jackson and Richard Nixon, two presidents who had showdowns with the court system, for context.

This is also a video episode! Be sure to subscribe on YouTube to watch the full thing. https://www.youtube.com/@ThisDayPod

This Day In Esoteric Political History is a proud member of Radiotopia from PRX.

Your support helps foster independent, artist-owned podcasts and award-winning stories.

If you want to support the show directly, you can do so on our website: ThisDayPod.com

You can also find our newsletter, merch store, transcripts, and lot more on our site.

Get in touch if you have any ideas for future topics, or just want to say hello. Follow us on social @thisdaypod

Our team: Jacob Feldman, Researcher/Producer; Brittani Brown, Producer; Khawla Nakua, Transcripts; music by Teen Daze and Blue Dot Sessions; Audrey Mardavich is our Executive Producer at Radiotopia

Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Three, two, one.
0:05.3	Hello and welcome to this day from Radiotopia.
0:07.9	My name is Jody Avergan.
0:09.8	It is Sunday, February 16th, and we are devoting Sundays to what we are calling some Sunday context, a series with thoughts on the very rocky, very history-making present that we are living in,
0:21.7	but always trying to see what lessons history can have for us.
0:25.0	That means that twice a month or so we will gather in person or on Zoom on a weekend and chat about,
0:32.4	well, what are we going to chat about? Look around, folks. That's what we're going to chat about.
0:35.6	Here, as always,
0:38.0	Nicole Hammer of Vanderbilt and Kelly Carter Jackson of Wesley. Nice to see you on a weekend.
0:43.8	Good to see you, Jody. Hey there. Shout out to everyone who's watching this on YouTube. We are going to
0:49.8	be posting these on YouTube. So go and subscribe there. And we may also start to do these in a way that listeners can watch live if they want and spend some time with us and ask questions and interact. So we're figuring out exactly the timing and so forth for that. But it'd be very fun to do that and sort of evolve this Sunday series. So stay tuned for information about that. We're calling it some Sunday context. There was a moment where I was like, should we call this Sunday series. So stay tuned for information about that. We're calling it some Sunday
1:12.4	context. There was a moment where I was like, should we call this Sunday Scaries? I was just thinking
1:16.9	that. We get. That could be our sort of like, you know, ongoing, rough name for it. But, you know,
1:26.5	I don't look, it's scary out there.
1:30.1	I do think history can make things maybe both more scary and less scary, but, you know,
1:36.8	branding wise, I don't want to make it seem like all we're doing is getting together and
1:41.2	being scared and being down, though we will have some of that as well.
1:46.0	So context over Scaries, but Sunday Scaries is a good name for the series for sure.
1:51.6	And, you know, the way that we're going to do this, we've talked about this before,
1:54.8	but like we'll try and pick a theme or an angle to focus on.
1:58.1	Obviously, there's no shortage.
1:59.6	I mean, part of this story and the strategy
	...

Transcript will be available on the free plan in -41 days. Upgrade to see the full transcript now.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Jody Avirgan & Radiotopia, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Jody Avirgan & Radiotopia and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.