If you’re a regular listener of the show then you’re familiar with today’s guest, Lisa Graves.
In addition to being one of my favorite people, she’s also one of the most brilliant. She’s currently Director of TrueNorthResearch.org. but appears on this show in her personal capacity offering facts and opinions based on her unimpeachable experience working in the DoJ under AGs Janet Reno and John Ashcroft, in the Senate Judiciary Committee as lead counsel for nominations and so much more.
True North Research published a primer on what is now likely the playbook for the D’ump 2.0 administration, better known to us all as Project 2025. It’s at Project2025Admin.com and includes a profile of Kash Patel, who D’ump has suggested he’ll appoint to lead the FBI. OMG.
And the EXTreme Court hear a case this morning — US vs Skrmetti – about whether Tennessee’s ban on gender-affirming medical care for minors violates the US Constitution. (Watch out, this slide is already horribly slippery.)
I promised some other links… Timothy Snyder’s substack is snyder.substack.com. Today he wrote about the attempted coup in South Korea, and he’s always worth reading.
Robert Kuttner has a must-read piece today at The American Prospect titled “Some Guardrails Hold” about D’ump’s nominees that should give a smidgeon of hope.
You an add both of those sources to the list of trusted news sources in our new reality….. more coming daily.
