Executive Disorder (With Keith Ellison)

About this episode

David Sirota interviews Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison about the legal challenges against the Trump administration's executive orders.

In the first nine months of his second term, President Donald Trump has filed more than 200 executive orders. State attorneys general are filing lawsuits to block the Trump administration’s blatant power grabs, but will our legal system prove strong enough to save American democracy? Today on Lever Time , David Sirota speaks with Minnesota’s Attorney General Keith Ellison (D), who has sued the Trump administration dozens of times, for an on-the-ground look at the battle to stop the Trump agenda. Click here for a full transcript of the episode. Get ad-free episodes, bonus content and extended interviews by becoming a member at levernews.com/join . To leave a tip for The Lever , click here . It helps us do this kind of independent journalism.

People in this episode

Host: David Sirota

Guest: Keith Ellison

Topics covered

• executive orders
• Trump administration
• legal battles
• American democracy
• state attorneys general

Keywords

• executive orders
• Trump
• Keith Ellison
• lawsuits
• American democracy
• attorneys general

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Organizations: Trump administration, Lever, levernews.com

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