From DOGE to USAID: Are Trump’s Executive Actions Legal?
Season 2025
Episode 7159
About the Episode
What are the legal implications of the signing spree of executive orders by President Trump? Gillian Metzger is a constitutional law professor at Columbia Law School and served as Deputy Assistant Attorney General under President Joe Biden. Metzger joins Walter Isaacson to decipher the actions we've seen so far … and discuss what might be next.
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