The Gangster Presidency | Amicus With Dahlia Lithwick | Law, justice, and the courts

On Monday, President Trump’s personal lawyer and Acting Deputy Attorney General Emil Bove ordered prosecutors to drop federal corruption charges against New York City Mayor Eric Adams. Adams had been courting President Trump for weeks, including with a pre-inauguration visit to Mar A Lago, but the shape of the deal struck between the accused Mayor and the incoming administration came into clear view with a flurry of Department of Justice resignations on Thursday. On this week’s episode of Amicus, Dahlia Lithwick speaks to Harry Litman, a former U.S. attorney, and host and executive producer of the podcast Talking Feds. Harry explains why the so-called “Thursday Night Massacre” is not the kind of scandal even this administration can shrug off while yelling something about the “deep state” and “weaponization”.
Next, Dahlia turns to the chaotic, destructive and dangerous “spontaneous disassembly” of much of the federal government currently taking place at the hands of Elon Musk with guest Sam Bagenstos, former general counsel of the United States Department of Health and Human Services until December 2024, also former general counsel for the Office of Management and Budget from January 2021 until June 2022. Now a professor at the University of Michigan, Sam explains what happens when the federal government stops working, and why persistently asking whether or not we’re in a constitutional crisis is simply the wrong question.

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[loisk]

Sarah Kendzior and Andrea Chalupa were warning of this as far back as 2015. BUT no one listened to them and those who did called them crazy.
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You can thank the supreme court for this. Trump can never be prosecuted as he directs these deeds

[wesleyrodgers]

Prices are still GOING UP.
Construction sites are CLOSED.
Food is ROTTING in the fields.

[lindabracken]

Thank you Dahlia for your wonderful podcast!!! Harry Litman rocks!!!💙🗽💙🗽💙🇺🇸

[heatherc]

And, just as I thought. They're all in on it. Thanks Dahlia and Sam. ❤

[damn_tam]

Hold up though…you don’t think he’s actually going to defy a court order despite him publicly flirting with the idea and planting the seed in the public discourse, but you didn’t say why you thought that.

[Gfthce]

Wake up !
Your country just gottook over

[PhilipMuench-wc]

40:52 Dahlia, hectobillionaire, not centibillionaire.