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texas longhorn. well, this is going to take long time. so he's nationally recognized expert on federal courts, constitutional law national security law and military justice and is currently hosting a podcast on national security law. but hidden from his public. and i talked to him this morning about, this is one of my favorite podcasts that he and his wife co-hosted in loco parentis, which only ran for two seasons during the pandemic about parenting and the law and parenting comes first and you can go and look at past or listen to past sessions of this podcast. i also i asked if steve would you know reprise this podcast because their repartee in the podcast is fabulous interviewing with different people about parenting and and being lawyers and whatnot. it's just fantastic. anyway, he lives in austin with his wife karen, and two daughters and their ten year old pug, who also has not bidden any secret service yet. yes so he is the author of the docket how the supreme court uses rulings to amass power and undermine the republic. so i actual
texas longhorn. well, this is going to take long time. so he's nationally recognized expert on federal courts, constitutional law national security law and military justice and is currently hosting a podcast on national security law. but hidden from his public. and i talked to him this morning about, this is one of my favorite podcasts that he and his wife co-hosted in loco parentis, which only ran for two seasons during the pandemic about parenting and the law and parenting comes first and you...
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places in states like florida a huge surge of latino support for donald trump in places like south texas, particularly the nonwhite vote moved very strongly in its direction. so you really have, i think, a political and political dynamic where i divide the electorate into three groups. and, you know, i you have white voters with college degrees who have been trending left. they're about 30% of the electorate. they're going to stay about 30% of the electorate for the foreseeable. you have white working class voters who are 40 to 45% of the electorate and their numbers have been shrinking, but they still the largest group and they are majority in those midwestern battleground states. and then you have nonwhite voters and a my argument is nonwhite voters really are the battleground. and i think that their political preferences are not settled, that there is sort of been this you know, they are growing as a share of the electorate. but you've seen in 2020 and it looks like in the 2024 polls, trump into those margins and i think the point i really want to drive home is, you know, we really ne
places in states like florida a huge surge of latino support for donald trump in places like south texas, particularly the nonwhite vote moved very strongly in its direction. so you really have, i think, a political and political dynamic where i divide the electorate into three groups. and, you know, i you have white voters with college degrees who have been trending left. they're about 30% of the electorate. they're going to stay about 30% of the electorate for the foreseeable. you have white...
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it's the texas of canada. fort mcmurray, if you've never heard of it, 600 miles north of the montana border, deep in the boreal forest. but it's the largest source of foreign oil imports into the united states, to the tune of about. 4 million barrels a day. and that's coming out of fort mcmurray, not really in the form of oil. don't drill it up there. they mine out of the out of sand tar sand that they have to heat to extraordinary temperatures with natural gas, which is a perfectly viable fuel but they're rendering this tarry substance into something that eventually after many more aggressive becomes sinful crude that then makes its way down into refineries, some of which are owned by koch industries on the on the northern u.s. border to be turned into products that we're burning in various ways down here. so about 90,000 people live and work there and may three, 2016, it was overrun by a wildfire. the whole city and was on that day, the site of the largest, most evacuation due to fire in modern. 90,000 peopl
it's the texas of canada. fort mcmurray, if you've never heard of it, 600 miles north of the montana border, deep in the boreal forest. but it's the largest source of foreign oil imports into the united states, to the tune of about. 4 million barrels a day. and that's coming out of fort mcmurray, not really in the form of oil. don't drill it up there. they mine out of the out of sand tar sand that they have to heat to extraordinary temperatures with natural gas, which is a perfectly viable fuel...
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and texas he was jogging in iowa. jogging in new hampshire. he was jogging all the time for the better for the media. you know. and then he went to a gym in concord and did lifts did weight lifts and said, let me see ronald reagan do that, you know, that type of stuff and that really, really, really that was a and i understand why it was a burn to mrs. reagan saddle so he picked bush because he was out of at the convention they tried the co-presidency with gerald ford that, you know, it worked for about 8 hours and then it fell apart. right. it was just you know, it was nonsense, really. you know, jim baker later, he said he says if they been elected, would you call ford mr. president, mr. vice president, be mr. vice president. mr. president. so fell apart and reagan was out of options. jack kemp was too young. the one option i wish he'd thought of. i wish he thought it was to go back to a 76 choice. the schweiker really, really good man senator from pennsylvania. and he dramatically when he was reagan's running mate in 76, he was he a moderat
and texas he was jogging in iowa. jogging in new hampshire. he was jogging all the time for the better for the media. you know. and then he went to a gym in concord and did lifts did weight lifts and said, let me see ronald reagan do that, you know, that type of stuff and that really, really, really that was a and i understand why it was a burn to mrs. reagan saddle so he picked bush because he was out of at the convention they tried the co-presidency with gerald ford that, you know, it worked...
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wreckage and they put on a plane, cargo plane, to the eighth air force headquarters in in fort worth, texas where someone else at it and says, idiots, this is a weather balloon. and and in about three and a half hours, the military puts a second statement saying, you know, our apologies. it's not a flying saucer it's a weather balloon. and the roswell story comes and goes in about 3 hours and is basically for 30 years and really reemerges all in the wake of watergate in the late 1970s. and, you know, one of the things that really surprised me in working on this book was, is joel said, my previous was a history of watergate. and this book, in some ways ends being a weird sequel to a book on watergate because the second half of the book ends up being a lot about the rise of ufo conspiracy theories and collapse of faith and trust and truth in government institutions. and so the ufo conspiracies become, really the first government can spirits these to rise in wake of watergate the committee the pike committee vietnam, the pentagon papers in the seventies and eighties. and really establish the c
wreckage and they put on a plane, cargo plane, to the eighth air force headquarters in in fort worth, texas where someone else at it and says, idiots, this is a weather balloon. and and in about three and a half hours, the military puts a second statement saying, you know, our apologies. it's not a flying saucer it's a weather balloon. and the roswell story comes and goes in about 3 hours and is basically for 30 years and really reemerges all in the wake of watergate in the late 1970s. and, you...
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angela stroud, a sociologist who went down to texas and interviewed like 100 gun owners and she say, are you here? and you're going everywhere. and they'd be like, well, i could pull up to a bodega and mr. saggy pants gag gangbanger might pull up to my car and if he's packin, i want to be packin. and she'd say, well, did that ever happen? it didn't happen. one time they actually there was not even a bodega where they live. and so so a lot of this. yeah. and so part of this is about the, the kind of fear of speculate in which guns become like, oh my god, i'm unprotected at this moment, which some people is a very real threat i mean, i'm doing a project on guns in israel right now. i'm trying to stop spread of handguns in israel, which is another insane problem. but like there are all these stories, people who didn't have a gun when they need it. and those become like really important real life death stories, but idea of speculative threat. but the problem and is a very short answer to a very complicated and we have we have divided did this whole divide of illegal and legal guns and cr
angela stroud, a sociologist who went down to texas and interviewed like 100 gun owners and she say, are you here? and you're going everywhere. and they'd be like, well, i could pull up to a bodega and mr. saggy pants gag gangbanger might pull up to my car and if he's packin, i want to be packin. and she'd say, well, did that ever happen? it didn't happen. one time they actually there was not even a bodega where they live. and so so a lot of this. yeah. and so part of this is about the, the...
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you're seeing a little bit this particularly down in texas in a little bit in arizona. you know, will the democrats really risk with our current border are they going to send federal troops down to texas and say we're going to start arresting? and i knew michael was going to say, yes of arresting people who are just trying to enforce the federal laws that they won't enforce. i think they may try. but i think if we're smart, we can make the optics of that so bad that becomes toxic even for the democrats. so that's that short term, create facts on the ground. what do we do? the long conceptually? well, first, i think we have to puncture the nation of immigrants myth that's literally its origins in a democrat campaign in 1960. if you read my chapter in the book i kind of go all into sort of the history of american immigration, which is not what most people think it is. so you can see some of my other talks on youtube. we also need to have a candid look at what worked and what didn't work under trump, under trump deportations increased. the border was certainly more secure.
you're seeing a little bit this particularly down in texas in a little bit in arizona. you know, will the democrats really risk with our current border are they going to send federal troops down to texas and say we're going to start arresting? and i knew michael was going to say, yes of arresting people who are just trying to enforce the federal laws that they won't enforce. i think they may try. but i think if we're smart, we can make the optics of that so bad that becomes toxic even for the...
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but then, you know, university of austin, this new fledgling university in texas, they approached me. so i have an affiliation there. you know, my i got this i was approached by substack to move my my writing my newsletter to their platform and that's been paying the bills and you know so we'll see i but as far as an academic job goes i'm still unimpressed with the legacy institutions of i'm back right here. you have the scribe the concept of luxury beliefs as impose costs upon the lower classes in exchange for societal social to the upper classes. but it increasingly seems like with some things like transgenderism, for instance, the upper classes are, you know, very to have that done to their kids as well, that these things are not just things where, you know, they're expressing support for them, but not actually practicing them. how do you think that how does that alter your view of luxury beliefs? well, so the transgender kids. well, so so generally good luxury beliefs they can inflict costs on the upper classes but the the price is lower. they are in a better position to withstand
but then, you know, university of austin, this new fledgling university in texas, they approached me. so i have an affiliation there. you know, my i got this i was approached by substack to move my my writing my newsletter to their platform and that's been paying the bills and you know so we'll see i but as far as an academic job goes i'm still unimpressed with the legacy institutions of i'm back right here. you have the scribe the concept of luxury beliefs as impose costs upon the lower...
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if you in texas or california, you're very familiar issues with the electricity grid. these are, you know, broadband internet, for example, you know, isn't in rural areas in a in large parts of this country. so there are lots of problems in all these sectors, too. and i think part of that story is a question of public policy choices. and we can solve some of those problems if think about making different choices as as policymakers it does. me that there are you know, in some ways businesses that are essential to other businesses and tend, as you said, towards concentration or monopoly. why don't we take one last question and i'm going to have got a faculty meeting about this gentleman in the front to see so much, to talk. i have two quick questions. so, one, my first questions that do you have a one question, if you don't mind? okay. so the current problem with iran does true. do you think it has something more than the iranian trade? so so the monopoly of the airline industry in this country is also due to the absence of a high speed railway network. and we don't have
if you in texas or california, you're very familiar issues with the electricity grid. these are, you know, broadband internet, for example, you know, isn't in rural areas in a in large parts of this country. so there are lots of problems in all these sectors, too. and i think part of that story is a question of public policy choices. and we can solve some of those problems if think about making different choices as as policymakers it does. me that there are you know, in some ways businesses...
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but then, you know, university of austin, this new fledgling university in texas, they approached me. so i have an affiliation there. you know, my i got this i was approached by substack to move my my writing my newsletter to their platform and that's been paying the bills and you know so we'll see i but as far as an academic job goes i'm still unimpressed with the legacy institutions of i'm back right here. you have the scribe the concept of luxury beliefs as impose costs upon the lower classes in exchange for societal social to the upper classes. but it increasingly seems like with some things like transgenderism, for instance, the upper classes are, you know, very to have that done to their kids as well, that these things are not just things where, you know, they're expressing support for them, but not actually practicing them. how do you think that how does that alter your view of luxury beliefs? well, so the transgender kids. well, so so generally good luxury beliefs they can inflict costs on the upper classes but the the price is lower. they are in a better position to withstand
but then, you know, university of austin, this new fledgling university in texas, they approached me. so i have an affiliation there. you know, my i got this i was approached by substack to move my my writing my newsletter to their platform and that's been paying the bills and you know so we'll see i but as far as an academic job goes i'm still unimpressed with the legacy institutions of i'm back right here. you have the scribe the concept of luxury beliefs as impose costs upon the lower...
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port arthur, texas. galveston, texas i could go on and on and on and the queries were all very similar. dear senator, they began, and then each letter outlined complaints about illegal gambling, prostitution and intimidation, sometimes violent intimidation by a small group of racketeers and their employees. but the men and women who wrote these letters also linked those activities to the things i mentioned earlier, to political corruption, to labor racketeering, or to just meddling in local whatever the local business was, and to colbert and security concerns. one person in muscle shoals wrote a letter to key favors, saying that he was certain that communal arts were running the mob in muscle shoals. another person, this person called himself or herself an american, wrote this this rather odd and paranoid sounding note to the committee, saying that that communism was the brother of the black market. another man wrote a letter to keep our calling racketeers parasites and saying that he thought they were a
port arthur, texas. galveston, texas i could go on and on and on and the queries were all very similar. dear senator, they began, and then each letter outlined complaints about illegal gambling, prostitution and intimidation, sometimes violent intimidation by a small group of racketeers and their employees. but the men and women who wrote these letters also linked those activities to the things i mentioned earlier, to political corruption, to labor racketeering, or to just meddling in local...
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and the stewardess woke me up and says, we're in texas. and i went, i'm going to california. and i went back to sleep. well, we got california and i went down to pick up my duffel bag and i waited for the baggage come through. and i was not many duffel bags and i thought there was more than then. i never did find a duffel bag. so i went to the baggage claim. i said, hey, you know, where's my bag? and he says, and let me see your ticket. and he looked at ticket. he says, your bags probably in san francisco. you're in los angelus. that's supposed to change your plane to dallas. and i didn't make that. so i ended up going to oakland. when we got to oakland, one of the guys in my flight class with jim willingham and his father, he lived in right outside of california. and jim, mr. willingham worked for caterpillar and he'd given everybody a business card and told us in when we got there to call, calling. so after i checked in, i called him up and he told me to meet him at a bar. where? down there. there was three or four guys from my flight class. there and mr. willingham showed
and the stewardess woke me up and says, we're in texas. and i went, i'm going to california. and i went back to sleep. well, we got california and i went down to pick up my duffel bag and i waited for the baggage come through. and i was not many duffel bags and i thought there was more than then. i never did find a duffel bag. so i went to the baggage claim. i said, hey, you know, where's my bag? and he says, and let me see your ticket. and he looked at ticket. he says, your bags probably in...
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if i'm if i'm an enslaved person in texas, canada is a of a distance to try and reach. so the movement is towards mexico. once mexico abolishes slavery. so that, i think, is the way to look at the equation. once wherever you have free soil, people will go towards it. no. is there a magic here? you? yeah, but i think your recording you have to be the only one motivated someone someone. territory. can i characterize? not in mixed company. i shouldn't shouldn't. there was money to be made. the people to slave catchers who turned up in boston. looking for william and allen. craft one worked with william in a carpenter shop so he knew him and therefore you could identify him. and the second one was hired by the slave catchers because he had a reputation for doing that sort of thing. so there's to be made in and the money was significant enough that it warranted doing this. the slave the slave holders on the hand after 1850 would were guaranteed the cost. the cost of returning the fugitive would be covered by the government. yeah. so if you look at the bills, the bills of ret
if i'm if i'm an enslaved person in texas, canada is a of a distance to try and reach. so the movement is towards mexico. once mexico abolishes slavery. so that, i think, is the way to look at the equation. once wherever you have free soil, people will go towards it. no. is there a magic here? you? yeah, but i think your recording you have to be the only one motivated someone someone. territory. can i characterize? not in mixed company. i shouldn't shouldn't. there was money to be made. the...
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senator yarborough of texas wanted to do it a different way. there's a huge view. that was the reason kennedy down there to begin with, try to mend some fences again so that you could win texas in the general election. and so jerry bruno planned the trip he get the motorcade the way he wanted. he didn't get them to the right venue where he wanted. instead, governor connally got way, which proved tragic. another kind of wrench in this was that texas christian university was supposed to give an honorary degree that day, or perhaps the day before. but at the last minute they realized, oh, we don't give honorary degrees to catholics, according to jerry bruno. and so again, like, had they just given the honorary degree, had they taken the different route, had they not gone to the trademark all of these ways? and so jerry bruno, just very profoundly shares how he tried like to do all these different things. and i mean, who could have said what that history would have been like? maybe lee harvey oswald have been in a different place, who knows? but the fact they went righ
senator yarborough of texas wanted to do it a different way. there's a huge view. that was the reason kennedy down there to begin with, try to mend some fences again so that you could win texas in the general election. and so jerry bruno planned the trip he get the motorcade the way he wanted. he didn't get them to the right venue where he wanted. instead, governor connally got way, which proved tragic. another kind of wrench in this was that texas christian university was supposed to give an...
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port arthur, texas. galveston, texas i could go on and on and on and the queries were all very similar. dear senator, they began, and then each letter outlined complaints about illegal gambling, prostitution and intimidation, sometimes violent intimidation by a small group of racketeers and their employees. but the men and women who wrote these letters also linked those activities to the things i mentioned earlier, to political corruption, to labor racketeering, or to just meddling in local whatever the local business was, and to colbert and security concerns. one person in muscle shoals wrote a letter to key favors, saying that he was certain that communal arts were running the mob in muscle shoals. another person, this person called himself or herself an american, wrote this this rather odd and paranoid sounding note to the committee, saying that that communism was the brother of the black market. another man wrote a letter to keep our calling racketeers parasites and saying that he thought they were a
port arthur, texas. galveston, texas i could go on and on and on and the queries were all very similar. dear senator, they began, and then each letter outlined complaints about illegal gambling, prostitution and intimidation, sometimes violent intimidation by a small group of racketeers and their employees. but the men and women who wrote these letters also linked those activities to the things i mentioned earlier, to political corruption, to labor racketeering, or to just meddling in local...
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yeah, but 40 years ago in fort worth, texas was a group who started buying pawnshop shops. and i said, a banker, why are you investing this is that it gives us we are allowed to charge 20% a month. i said that's legal. he said absolutely legal. and later on they i mean, they made millions public soon, but why why isn't the bank doing this they say it's not in our charter or because people don't have collateral and credit. say, hang on a second. okay so they didn't that same group started all your cargo is loaning money against cars to the who the banks would not give credit to. they went public for billions. so what is it about banks? they see this profit here. they still don't go after well. i think the first part of your story is more accurate that is, if you look at pawnshops and day lenders and so forth they charge these enormous fees and enormous interest rates. a number of them are financed in the background by some of these big banks they're not the the big banks are to get some of the profits of the share of the profit here without getting the bad publicity. and so
yeah, but 40 years ago in fort worth, texas was a group who started buying pawnshop shops. and i said, a banker, why are you investing this is that it gives us we are allowed to charge 20% a month. i said that's legal. he said absolutely legal. and later on they i mean, they made millions public soon, but why why isn't the bank doing this they say it's not in our charter or because people don't have collateral and credit. say, hang on a second. okay so they didn't that same group started all...
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participated in an architect of the first online debit card system for food stamps for the state of texas. we do a lot of work in the gaming industry. lots of transactions and lots of data, that is where i do a lot of my work. investigating fraud is something i've always enjoyed doing and i think it is important to do. we look at foodstamp fraud and medicare fraud. host: who did you talk to from the trump campaign and who did you not talk to? guest: the simple answer to that is almost all of my communications were with alex cannon. as we set up the framework for how i was going to do this work, he told me that he was going to keep my identity and my company's identity closely held. he didn't want the white house to know who is doing the work because he wanted us to be unbiased, and he wanted us to be shielded from political pressure. he wanted us to be shielded from people insisting on a certain set of results because that is not what works for a successful court case. from anyone in the campaign, it was him. host:host: where did that communication go from alex? who did you talk to? guest
participated in an architect of the first online debit card system for food stamps for the state of texas. we do a lot of work in the gaming industry. lots of transactions and lots of data, that is where i do a lot of my work. investigating fraud is something i've always enjoyed doing and i think it is important to do. we look at foodstamp fraud and medicare fraud. host: who did you talk to from the trump campaign and who did you not talk to? guest: the simple answer to that is almost all of my...