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Historian Heather Cox Richardson on Trump’s “Authoritarian Experiment”

2025/3/19
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With Trump squaring off against the federal court system, which has attempted to block some of his actions, we look at the state of the judiciary branch.

On Today's Show:
Heather Cox Richardson, professor of American history at Boston College and author of "Letters from an American" on Substack and several books, including Democracy Awakening: Notes on the State of America (Viking, 2023), offers a historian's take on the first weeks of the second Trump presidency.