[image: image.png] *opening thoughts *Poet and writer, Robert L. Arnold, from Helena, Arkansas is a child of the Mississippi River delta. Deep interest in the likes of Vonnegut, Hunter Thompson and Voltaire combined with his multifarious degrees shape Arnold’s work. no kings …The erosion of liberty is never announced with fireworks. It happens in meetings. It happens in laws nobody reads. It happens when an administration ignores the courts, and instead of answering a ruling, they smear the judge. Or impeach them. Or replace them with sycophants in robes. That, dear reader, is not democracy … it is autocracy in drag. The moment the executive branch decides the judiciary no longer matters is the moment we stop being a nation of laws and start being a nation of whims. And yet, we shrug…. part one*: **Garrett Epps *is the legal affairs editor at the Washington Monthly. In Birthright Citizenship Case, Trump DOJ Asks Supreme Court Justices to Make Themselves Irrelevant Attempting to limit trial judges’ power to issue nationwide orders, the solicitor general argued that every crying newborn rendered stateless by MAGA executive order had better get their own lawyer. themselves-irrelevant/ <washingtonmonthly.com/2025/05/16/in-birthright-citizenship-case-trump-justice-department-asks-supreme-court-justices-to-make-themselves-irrelevant/> part two: *Mark Joseph Stern* is a Slate senior writer. Donald Trump’s Attempt to Destroy Due Process Ran Into a Wall at the Supreme Court Republicans Think They Have a Way to Blow Up the Filibuster Without Anyone Noticing Listen online at www.wnhnfm.org/live. Listen anytime to the podcast at www.podomatic.com/podcasts/staff74238 <www.podomatic.com/podcasts/staff74238> podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/attitude-with-arnie-arnesen/id1634055179 tunein.com/podcasts/News–Politics-Podcasts/Attitude-with-Arnie- <tunein.com/podcasts/News–Politics-Podcasts/Attitude-with-Arnie-Arnesen-p1711842/> Arnesen-p1711842/ <tunein.com/podcasts/News–Politics-Podcasts/Attitude-with-Arnie-Arnesen-p1711842/> Attitude with Arnie Arnesen,Robert Arnold, No Kings, Garrett Epps, Washington Monthly, birthright citizenship, nationwide orders, Mark Joseph Stern, slate dot com, due process, filibuster
