{"id":240958,"date":"2025-05-14T06:37:13","date_gmt":"2025-05-14T06:37:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/american-history\/this-is-democracy-the-courts-and-the-president\/"},"modified":"2025-05-14T06:37:13","modified_gmt":"2025-05-14T06:37:13","slug":"this-is-democracy-the-courts-and-the-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=240958","title":{"rendered":"This is Democracy &#8211; The Courts and the President"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"545\" src=\"https:\/\/notevenpast.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/This-is-Democracy-\u2013-Episode-140-Asian-American-History-and-Exclusion-2.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-39929\" srcset=\"https:\/\/notevenpast.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/This-is-Democracy-\u2013-Episode-140-Asian-American-History-and-Exclusion-2.png 1024w, https:\/\/notevenpast.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/This-is-Democracy-\u2013-Episode-140-Asian-American-History-and-Exclusion-2-300x160.png 300w, https:\/\/notevenpast.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/This-is-Democracy-\u2013-Episode-140-Asian-American-History-and-Exclusion-2-768x409.png 768w, https:\/\/notevenpast.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/This-is-Democracy-\u2013-Episode-140-Asian-American-History-and-Exclusion-2-640x341.png 640w, https:\/\/notevenpast.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/This-is-Democracy-\u2013-Episode-140-Asian-American-History-and-Exclusion-2-626x333.png 626w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><\/figure>\n<p>Jeremi and Zachary sit down with Jeffrey Toobin to discuss the critical relationship between the U.S. judiciary, particularly the Supreme Court, and the executive branch. Discussion centers around the contentious and politically charged topic of presidential pardoning power. The episode covers historical instances, such as Lincoln\u2019s and Johnson\u2019s post-Civil War pardons, Gerald Ford\u2019s pardon of Nixon, and more recent uses of the pardon power by Presidents Trump and Biden.<\/p>\n<p>Zachary sets the scene with his poem, \u201cIt is a miracle the Earth can twist.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/notevenpast.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/2222025-03-27_this-is-democracy_the-courts-and-the-president_1.mp3\"\/><\/figure>\n<p>Jeffrey Toobin is the chief legal analyst for CNN and a contributing opinion writer for the\u00a0<em>New York Times<\/em>. He is the author of numerous books, including:\u00a0<em>The Oath: The Obama White House and the Supreme Court<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0<em>Homegrown: Timothy McVeigh and the Rise of Right-Wing Extremism<\/em>. His most recent book is:\u00a0<em>The Pardon: The Politics of Presidential Mercy<\/em>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jeremi and Zachary sit down with Jeffrey Toobin to discuss the critical relationship between the U.S. judiciary, particularly the Supreme Court, and the executive branch. Discussion centers around the contentious and politically charged topic of presidential pardoning power. 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