Diane’s farewell message
After 52 years at WAMU, Diane Rehm says goodbye.
Former President Donald Trump holds campaign rally in New Hampshire before the state's primary.
Those who see Donald Trump as a threat to democracy have taken solace in the cases piling up against him.
There were civil cases that carried massive financial penalties. There were four criminal cases whose trials were set to take place before the November election. And there was the question of the Fourteenth Amendment that could have barred trump from the ballot.
But two recent Supreme Court decisions have changed that.
“It’s going to be Biden versus Trump,” says Ian Millhiser, senior correspondent at Vox. “There is no magical anything that is going to stop us from having an election between Joe Biden and Donald Trump.”
Millhiser writes about the Supreme Court, the Constitution, and the decline of liberal democracy in the United States. He joins Diane on this episode of On My Mind to talk about Trump’s recent legal victories and why he argues “the courts were never going to save American democracy.”
After 52 years at WAMU, Diane Rehm says goodbye.
Diane takes the mic one last time at WAMU. She talks to Susan Page of USA Today about Trump’s first hundred days – and what they say about the next hundred.
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