AG Garland vs House Republicans, Project 2025

In the preview of this midweek supporters’ episode, Jay is joined by Justin Holmes from the University of Northern Iowa (whose opinions, as always are his own and not reflective of his employer, the people of the great state of Iowa, or its 20 Million head of hogs). They open by taking up the failed vote to hold Merrick Garland in contempt of Congress for refusing to turn over Robert Hur’s recordings of his interviews with President Biden. They discuss the legal merits of contempt, the challenges of enforcement, bills of attainder, and campaign implications. (Spoiler alert, Republicans win either way, if anyone is paying attention to this.) They close with a discussion of the Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025, which has gotten a lot of attention recently as a potential blueprint for a second Trump administration. They initially focus on potential changes to the DOJ and continue with a broader discussion of the role of bureaucracy in a democracy, where Justin attempts to find common ground between the great political philosophers Edmund Burke and Jello Biafra. They try to get to the bottom of whether these are new ideas, whether they’re good ideas, whether they’re going to be guiding principles for Donald Trump, and why Democrats are so concerned. The Politics Guys on Facebook | X Check out Mike’s other podcast - Sustainable Planet, and the Sustainable Planet Substack. Listener support helps make The Politics Guys possible. You can support us or change your level of support at patreon.com/politicsguys or politicsguys.com/support. On Venmo we’re @PoliticsGuys. The Politics Guys is part of The Democracy Group, a network of podcasts that examines what's broken in our democracy and how we can work together to fix it. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices