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Trump ABUSE of POWER Tests CONSTITUTION and History
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May 8, 2025
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1:30:10Now PlayingJoin the Court of History, Sidney Blumenthal and Sean Wilentz with Congressman Eric Swalwell (D-CA, House Judiciary) for an in-depth discussion of the myriad constitutional violations and statutory illegalities of the Trump administration’s first weeks in power.
Meet our panelists:
Rep. Eric Swalwell, House Judiciary Committee. Rep. Swalwell currently serves on the House Judiciary and Homeland Security Committees. Formerly, he led the Hate Crimes Unit as a prosecutor in the Alameda County District Attorney’s Office.
Bradley P. Moss is attorney for the John and Jane Doe FBI agents, specializing in matters relating to national security, federal employment and security clearance law, and the Freedom of Information Act/Privacy Act.
Stephen I. Vladeck of Georgetown Law is a nationally recognized expert on the federal courts; the Supreme Court; national security law; and military justice. He is the author of the New York Times bestselling book, “The Shadow Docket: How the Supreme Court Uses Stealth Rulings to Amass Power and Undermine the Republic.”
Sidney Blumenthal is the co-chair of The Court of History. He is the former senior adviser to President Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton, has published three books of a projected five-volume political life of Abraham Lincoln, is a member of the board of the Abraham Lincoln Institute, a columnist for The Guardian, former staff writer for The Washington Post, The New Republic and The New Yorker, and the author of The Permanent Campaign and The Rise of the Counter-Establishment, among other books.
Sean Wilentz is the co-chair of The Court of History. He is the George Henry Davis 1886 Professor of American History at Princeton University. His books have won, among other awards, the Bancroft Prize, and he also contributes work across the length and breadth of American journalism, from the New York Times to Rolling Stone to the New York Review of Books.
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