Sidney Blumenthal and Sean Wilentz speak with Lisa Graves, hos of Court Accountability, former Senate Judiciary Committee staff member and DOJ official, about how Todd Blanche testified in his confirmation hearing to bob and weave through on the Trump ’anti-weaponization” slush fund, Tom Homan’s $50,000 in cash, ICE raids, election suppression, subpoenas to New York Times reporters, and his Freudian slip that revealed the truth of his subservience to Trump.

Sidney Blumenthal and Sean Wilentz review the Supreme Court term with Stephen Vladeck, of Georgetown Law and author of “The Shadow Docket,” to explain the political nature of the court’s recent decisions, its tortuous twists and turns to reach the results the conservative majority desired, and Justice Samuel Alito’s absurd formulation of “practical originalism” to justify his rulings.

Sidney Blumenthal and Sean Wilentz discuss the ICE killing in Houston in a case of mistaken targeting, the Supreme Court’s brithright citizenship opinion, Stephen Miller’s and Donald Trump’s racial fantasies driving immigration policy, and the genealology of the Trump family.

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Sidney Blumenthal and Sean Wilentz speak with Katie Phang, attorney, independent journalist and hose of the podcast “Sidebar with Katie Phang,” on the Meidas Touch Network, about the E. Jean Carroll case, the Supreme Court ruling that will enforce the lower court ruling upholding the jury verdict finding him liable as a sexual abuser and that he must pay $5 million,  and the silence of the Republicans.

Sidney Blumenthal and Sean Wilentz speak with Katie Phang, attorney, independent journalist and hose of the podcast “Sidebar with Katie Phang,” on the Meidas Touch Network, about her lawsuit to end the Epstein files coverup, the gaslighting of Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche, the accusation of alleged rape against Donald Trump, and the web of international connections in trafficking in models revealed in the files that involve not only Epstein but also Trump.

Sidney Blumenthal and Sean Wilentz speak with Robert Reich, former Secretary of Labor under President Clinton and public policy professor emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley, on the rise of a new progressive generation, the sources of its politics, from Zohran Mamdani to James Talirico, where it might go, and what an agenda for the common good might look like.

Sidney Blumenthal and Sean Wilentz speak with Robert Reich, former Secretary of Labor under President Clinton and public policy professor emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley, on democracy and oligarchy, big money in politics, and Supreme Court reform.

Sidney Blumenthal and Sean Wilentz speak with David Blight, Yale historian and Pulitzer Prize winning author of “Frederick Douglass,” on the Trump family’s sketchy relationship to birthright citizenship, Trump’s nihilism, why MAGA is a Lost Cause, and the absurd Thomas and Alito dissents in the birthright citizenship case.

Sidney Blumenthal and Sean Wilentz speak with David Blight, Yale historian and Plitzer Prize winning author of “Frederick Douglass,” on Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson’s sharp refuation of Justice Clarence Thomas’ dissent in the birthright citizenship case.

Sidney Blumenthal and Sean Wilentz speak to Norm Ornstein, expert political scientist, about House Speaker Mike Johnson’s “protection” racket, Trump’s plan to prevent Democrats from taking seats that they win, the revolt of the Democratic voters against the establishment, and why the Democrats should start impeachment proceedings against Trump’s cabinet members now.