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Harry Blain, who writes for Jacobin, joins Lisa Graves of Court Accountability Action to discuss the Roberts Court’s ruling in the Slaughter case allowing Trump to decimate independent agencies. Blain, who is a professor at California State University, talks with Graves about the origins of “unitary executive theory,” how it is being used to destroy regulation of corporations under Trump, and how the power to clean house of Trump loyalists could be deployed by a Democratic president.
