For weeks, President Trump has been issuing executive orders and memos that levy or threaten sanctions on major law firms.
The moves suspend security clearances, cancel government contracts, bar employees from federal buildings — and other actions that threaten their ability to represent their clients.
While Trump complains the law firms employed "very dishonest people," legal experts say Trump is retaliating against firms who have represented his political opponents or, in one case, rehired an attorney who had left his position to help prosecute a case against Trump.
We hear from Rachel Cohen, who publicly resigned from her law firm in protest.
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Consider This from NPR - Trump targets Big Law, and Big Law appears intimidated
For weeks, President Trump has been issuing executive orders and memos that levy or threaten sanctions on major law firms.
The moves suspend security clearances, cancel government contracts, bar employees from federal buildings — and other actions that threaten their ability to represent their clients.
While Trump complains the law firms employed "very dishonest people," legal experts say Trump is retaliating against firms who have represented his political opponents or, in one case, rehired an attorney who had left his position to help prosecute a case against Trump.
We hear from Rachel Cohen, who publicly resigned from her law firm in protest.
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The moves suspend security clearances, cancel government contracts, bar employees from federal buildings — and other actions that threaten their ability to represent their clients.
While Trump complains the law firms employed "very dishonest people," legal experts say Trump is retaliating against firms who have represented his political opponents or, in one case, rehired an attorney who had left his position to help prosecute a case against Trump.
We hear from Rachel Cohen, who publicly resigned from her law firm in protest.
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The Gist - Chris Gethard and the Great Helsinki Caper
Chris Gethard stops by to talk comedy, ethics, and how audience taste moves like an algorithm with a grudge. Meanwhile, the JFK files are finally released, and it turns out the real mystery was in Finland all along. Also, the government’s got a chainsaw, and it's not just for photo ops: cuts are coming to everything from colorectal cancer screening to the office that won the Cold War-winning offices. Somewhere between chaos and court orders, we try to figure out what still counts as governance.
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CoinDesk Podcast Network - MARKETS DAILY: Crypto Update | Is the Economy Stronger Than We Think?
The latest price moves and insights with Jennifer Sanasie and 10x Research founder Markus Thielen.
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10x Research founder Markus Thielen joins CoinDesk to discuss the latest movements across the crypto market, with a focus on bitcoin's rebound to $90,000 and the potential for another BTC all-time high by the end of 2025. Plus, crypto equities to look out for as Coinbase is reportedly in talks to acquire Deribit.
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Reset with Sasha-Ann Simons - Chicago Public Media CEO Melissa Bell On Future of Chicago Sun-Times, WBEZ
Last week, the Chicago Sun-Times lost 20% of its workforce, as public media faces funding threats from Washington. So what’s ahead for one of the largest non-profit media companies in the country? Reset sits down with Melissa Bell, CEO of Chicago Public Media, to learn how this will affect what readers and listeners can expect from CPM’s newsrooms.
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State of the World from NPR - Israel’s Powerful Finance Minister and the Future of the Gaza Strip
NPR has learned that Israel is considering a major ground invasion of Gaza to fully occupy the territory and establish a military rule over Palestinians there. We learn about this plan and hear about the influential minister who has repeatedly called for Israel to resettle the Gaza Strip. Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich has threated to collapse Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government if the Gaza war ends. Our reporter talked to Smotrich and tells us about his rise to power.
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Stuff They Don't Want You To Know - Strange News: “Freedom Cities” are the New Company Towns, Sackler Family Doesn’t Go To Jail
A phenomenally powerful international lobbying group -- Freedom Cities -- pushes the idea of US communities run by corporations. An opioid update reveals the Sackler family will pay money rather than prison time. A threat in Antarctica, while astronauts finally return home. All this and more in this week's strange news segment.
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Despite winning the electoral college, and popular vote, President Donald Trump continues to face numerous legal roadblocks as he tries to fulfill his campaign promises, such as reigning in mass illegal immigration and protecting Jewish students on college campuses.
Well-funded liberal organizations and left-wing activist judges have launched a full-court-press to seemingly block everything Trump is doing, which is eerily similar to the 2022-24 lawfare period, argues Victor Davis Hanson on today’s “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words:”
“This is very analogous—cherry-picking left-wing judges is very analogous to what we watched all during the 2022-24 lawfare period. You remember Judge [Arthur] Engoron, Judge [Juan] Merchan, and Judge [Lewis] Kaplan—he was the judge in the E. Jean Carroll [case]. And we had the Alvin Bragg judge and the Letitia James. They were all—like these judges, they had two things in common: They were left-wing activist judges, appointed by either Biden, Obama, or Bill Clinton. And they had minor to major conflicts of interest where people in their family were big, either had worked for a prior Democratic administration or themselves were activists.
“And what did they do? They tried to put Donald Trump in jail.
“That same lawfare has now been transmogrified and put into a more concerted effort to stop everything that Donald Trump is trying to do. And what he's trying to do, remember, is not radical. It's just simply to enforce immigration law. It's just simply to bring back the country to the middle.”
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Cato Daily Podcast - Administrative Courts and Presidential Deportations
They’re not real courtrooms, of course, but administrative courts are being used in the context of immigration. What is their role in adjudicating immigration issues? David Bier and Will Yeatman comment.
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Motley Fool Money - How To Tune Out Market Noise
Tariffs and tech bubbles and uncertainty, oh my!
(00:21) Asit Sharma and Mary Long discuss:
- Companies that could be celebrating on April 2.
- What’s to blame for last week’s market “freakout”
- 23andme’s bankruptcy filing
Then, (17:50), Fool contributor Travis Hoium joins Ricky Mulvey for a look at MGM Resorts and the company’s bet on online sportsbooks.
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Companies discussed: TSLA, MSFT, AMZN, NVDA, META, GOOG, AAPL, ME, MGM
Host: Mary Long
Guests: Asit Sharma, Ricky Mulvey, Travis Hoium
Engineers: Dan Boyd, Rick Engdahl
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