Aziz Huq Discusses the Supreme Court’s Liberal Justices on Background Briefing
Background Briefing: July 28, 2025
We begin with Trump appearing increasingly mentally ill when announcing a trade deal with the EU and reducing his ultimatum to Putin from 50 days down to 10 or 12 as he went on a fact-free rant about windmills and whales. We discuss how Trump’s more and more likely successor J.D. Vance is putting an intellectual gloss on the administration’s racist and cruel immigration pogrom while it pursues racist gerrymandering to hold onto the House.
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Then we speak with Aziz Huq, a Professor of Law at the University of Chicago. He is a former clerk for Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and is the co-author of Unchecked and Unbalanced: Presidential Power in a Time of Terror and How to Save a Constitutional Democracy, and his latest book is The Collapse of Constitutional Remedies. We discuss his article at The Atlantic, “The Court’s Liberals Are Trying to Tell Americans Something” and another at Jacobin “Zohran Mamdani vs. Trump.”
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