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The Oath and The Office

Corey Brettschneider and John Fugelsang

The Oath and the Office is a weekly politics podcast unpacking presidential power, the U.S. Constitution, and the rule of law—with serious constitutional analysis and biting comedy.Brown University political science professor Corey…

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Could Facebook Have Stopped January 6? With Frances Haugen 2026-10-29 · 77m
Report the News, Risk Deportation? Stanford Students Take On Trump 2026-10-22 · 53m
Impeach Trump? Rep. Al Green Makes the Case 2026-10-15 · 70m
Jack Smith Fights Back—and Why the Midterms Matter (with Rep. Ted Lieu) 2026-10-08 · 75m
Deported to Torture? The Supreme Court Greenlights Trump 2026-10-01 · 48m
Trump’s White House Press Ban & Religious Coercion (with Mickey Dollens) 2026-09-24 · 71m
Bonus Episode: Is Bipartisanship Still Possible? With Governors Bill Haslam and Phil Bredesen 2026-09-22 · 34m
Did the Supreme Court Just Save the Election? With Skye Perryman 2026-09-17 · 70m
Will the Court Help Trump Steal the 2026 Election? 2026-09-10 · 61m
Trump’s Mafia Presidency, with Barbara McQuade 2026-09-03 · 63m
The Christian Nationalism Behind January 6, with Rep. Jared Huffman 2026-08-27 · 37m
Trump’s Presidency for Sale? 2026-08-20 · 56m
Trump vs. the Supreme Court. Again. 2026-08-13 · 51m
Blanche’s Confirmation Deal: Trump’s Weaponization Fund Could Return 2026-08-06 · 60m
What Trump and the New Right Really Believe | David French 2026-07-30 · 76m
Trump’s Media Threats & Todd Blanche’s $1.8B Slush Fund (with Skye Perryman) 2026-07-23 · 74m
Trump Targets the Press—and Spies on Americans (with Sen. Ron Wyden) 2026-07-16 · 66m
Trump’s $2.2 Billion Presidency: The Corruption the Constitution Saw Coming 2026-07-09 · 52m
Trump Loses Birthright, Wins a Power Grab (with Joyce Vance) 2026-07-02 · 61m
Trump’s DOJ Is Hiding the Epstein Files. Katie Phang Is Suing. 2026-06-25 · 57m
Trump’s War on Habeas Corpus and DOJ Independence — with Harry Litman 2026-06-18 · 60m
Trump Melts Down as Congress Pushes Back 2026-06-11 · 59m
Trump’s Bad Week Is Democracy’s Opening 2026-06-04 · 57m
Trump’s Imperial Presidency: Bogus Charges and Foreign Wars 2026-05-28 · 61m
The Secret Memos Behind the Supreme Court’s Shadow Docket (with Jodi Kantor) 2026-05-21 · 64m
Can Trump Undo Our Citizenship Rights? (with ACLU’s Cecilia Wang) 2026-05-14 · 66m
The Supreme Court’s Assault on Our Rights (with Kate Shaw) 2026-05-07 · 73m
Trump’s War on Truth and Science (with James Morone) 2026-04-30 · 58m
Trump’s Supreme Court, the Shadow Docket, and the New Normal (with Aaron Parnas) 2026-04-23 · 52m
Trump vs. the Pope 2026-04-16 · 45m
Is Trump Committing War Crimes? Lawrence Douglas on Hegseth, Nuremberg, and the Criminal State 2026-04-09 · 62m
Before Project 2025: How the Right Built Trump’s Power Grab (with David Sirota) 2026-04-02 · 65m
Mueller Warned Congress. Trump Celebrated His Death. 2026-03-26 · 45m
Stacey Abrams on the SAVE Act: The New Voter Suppression Threat 2026-03-19 · 70m
Trump’s War and the Imperial Presidency 2026-03-12 · 54m
Can Congress Stop Trump’s War? 2026-03-05 · 52m
Trump Loses in Court — But Pressure Remains on the Press and Late Night (with Mike Pesca) 2026-02-26 · 59m
Title Trump’s FCC Pressures Late Night — Even as Resistance Wins 2026-02-19 · 64m
DOJ Payback Politics (with Preet Bharara) 2026-02-12 · 58m
Trump vs. the Rule of Law: A 5-Year-Old Detained + Election Power Grab 2026-02-05 · 73m
Jan. 6 Then & Now: The Insurrection Blueprint (with Tom Joscelyn) 2026-01-29 · 75m
DOJ vs. Trump: The Indictment That Never Came (with Glenn Kirschner) 2026-01-22 · 71m
ICE Kills Renee Good: Can Minnesota Charge? + Trump’s White-Grievance Politics 2026-01-15 · 66m
Trump's Illegal Attack on Venezuela: Congress Must Step In + Jack Smith’s Testimony 2026-01-08 · 51m
Supreme Court Checks Trump — 2025 Year in Review 2026-01-01 · 66m
Brown Shooting Fallout: Lies on X — Epstein Redactions 2025-12-24 · 60m
A Brown Professor on the Shooting—and Gun Laws 2025-12-18 · 63m
Trump’s Supreme Court Power Grab (with Leah Litman) 2025-12-11 · 52m
MAGA Is Blaming the Judges (with Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse) 2025-12-04 · 73m
Political Prosecutions Blow Up — Judge Rules Trump’s Prosecutor Was Illegally Appointed 2025-11-27 · 50m
Trump Cornered Amid Epstein Panic 2025-11-20 · 52m
Trump Ends His Shutdown — What’s Behind Jackson’s Puzzling SNAP Call? 2025-11-13 · 51m
The Case That Could Finally Stop Trump (with Dahlia Lithwick) 2025-11-06 · 61m
From Tariffs to Nukes — How Congress Can Stop Trump’s Power Grabs (with Rep. Ted Lieu) 2025-10-30 · 59m
When Courts Fail and Universities Fight Back 2025-10-23 · 55m
Trump’s Self-Coup: The Three Prosecutions that Expose It 2025-10-16 · 53m
The Rule of Law on Trial (with CNN's Jake Tapper) 2025-10-09 · 70m
Trump Targets Comey — and the Shutdown Showdown (with Malcolm Nance) 2025-10-02 · 62m
Trump and Bondi are Coming for Free Speech 2025-09-25 · 55m
Trump Turns Kirk’s Killing Into a Weapon 2025-09-18 · 60m
Trump’s ICE Raids Get SCOTUS Greenlight: Democracy on the Line 2025-09-11 · 72m
Judge Rules Trump’s Military Move Illegal 2025-09-04 · 50m
Trump’s Flag-Burning Ban and Dictator Dreams 2025-08-28 · 52m
Trump Attacks the Smithsonian: Whitewashing Slavery From Our History 2025-08-21 · 58m
The Hard Coup Has Begun: Trump Escalates His War on America 2025-08-14 · 55m
Rigging Reality: Trump Fires Stats Chief as Texas Targets Voting Rights 2025-08-07 · 46m
Satire Strikes Back: South Park Skewers Trump and Paramount 2025-07-30 · 57m
From Courtrooms to Congress (with Mike Sacks) 2025-07-23 · 61m
Birthright Citizenship Showdown: State AGs vs. Trump (with NM Attorney General Raúl Torrez) 2025-07-16 · 67m
The Coup Continues: Trump's Purge, MAGA Meltdown, and the War on Free Speech 2025-07-09 · 53m
SCOTUS Guts Injunctions & Trump’s “Alligator Alcatraz” Spectacle 2025-07-02 · 46m
Illegal War? War Powers, Deportation Chaos & Trans Rights at Risk 2025-06-25 · 58m
No Kings, No Tyrants (with ACLU's Mike Zamore) 2025-06-18 · 62m
Trump, the Insurrection Act, and the California National Guard: Democracy Under Threat 2025-06-11 · 53m
Harvard Law & Holy Wars: Trump’s Attack on Courts, Campuses, and Religious Freedom 2025-06-04 · 55m
The War That Didn’t End When We Thought: (with historian Michael Vorenberg) 2025-05-28 · 75m
Supreme Threats (with Melissa Murray) 2025-05-21 · 70m
The Rule of Law Under Siege: Judge Dugan Indicted, Roberts' Weak Trump Rebuke, Habeas Corpus Crisis 2025-05-14 · 47m
Bad Vibes & Broken Oaths (with Leah Litman) 2025-05-07 · 58m
100 Days of Democratic Destruction: Trump, Executive Orders, and Constitutional Crisis 2025-04-30 · 50m
Lady Justice vs. Trump 2.0: (with Dahlia Lithwick) 2025-04-23 · 56m
Trump’s Coup Continues: Supreme Court Defiance and the Ivy League Showdown 2025-04-16 · 44m
Skadden Folds. The Court Wavers. Trump Advances 2025-04-10 · 52m
Who Can We Trust to Uphold the Constitution? 2025-04-03 · 60m
Capitulation or Courage: The ACLU's Fight for Non-Citizens' Rights 2025-03-27 · 61m
Trump's War on Courts Heats Up 2025-03-20 · 43m
Systematically Eliminating Dissent By Dismantling Free Speech 2025-03-13 · 32m
Bravely Standing Up to the Bully in the White House 2025-03-06 · 44m
What We Can Learn From Germany 2025-02-27 · 29m
Resigning to Defend Democracy 2025-02-20 · 37m
Trump vs. The Constitution 2025-02-13 · 45m
Trailer 2025-02-11 · 1m
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