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

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.

Episode 233 of the Brian Lehrer: A Daily Politics Podcast podcast, hosted by WNYC Studios, titled "Historian Heather Cox Richardson on Trump’s “Authoritarian Experiment”" was published on March 19, 2025 and runs 20 minutes.

March 19, 2025 ·20m · Brian Lehrer: A Daily Politics Podcast

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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.

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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.

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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.

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