Dear listeners,
For all subscribers this week, we have a discussion of President Trump’s jihad against Perkins Coie, and Long-Suffering Federal Judge Beryl Howell’s lack of patience for it. And we talk about the arrest of green card-holder Mahmoud Khalil at Columbia University — and the efforts of the Trump Administration to expel him using little-used but very broad powers for the Secretary of State to expel aliens on the grounds that their presence would have “potentially serious adverse foreign policy consequences for the United States.” Khalil has plausible statutory and constitutional claims to fight his expulsion, but the case is not a slam dunk.
That’s for everyone. Paying subscribers get a lot more — nearly an hour — including:
A look at the Trump administration’s effort to revoke hundreds of millions of dollars in grants to Columbia, on the grounds that the university has violated Title VI of the Civil Rights Act by permitting anti-Semitic harassment. Can they do that?
Ed Martin’s vague-yet-menacing letter to Georgetown Law School, saying he is conducting an “inquiry” into the school’s alleged teaching of DEI. Georgetown’s dean responded in turn with a letter saying Martin’s policy of refusing to hire Georgetown graduates due to his objections to the school’s curriculum is unconstitutional. Is it?
Updates on multiple cases where government lawyers say something in court and Trump administration officials say something else online that undermines their case.
The advice Paul Clement gave Dale Ho about Eric Adams, and why some people on the internet wanted him to instead recommend that Judge Ho do something that’s impossible.
And how Sam Bankman-Fried got himself thrown into solitary confinement by giving a jailhouse interview to Tucker Carlson, and
Some tips on best practices for distributing a podcast from federal prison, whether or not you are George Santos.
If you want to hear all of that and you’re not already a paying subscriber, hit the button below.
We hope you enjoy the episode,
Josh
