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Outrage Overload: Rethinking politics, division, and media
93. The Structural Battle for the DOJ – Alex Lovit
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About this episode
In February 2025, we explored how an expanding executive branch was stretching traditional boundaries. In this follow-up episode, we turn our attention to the primary institutional battleground of 2026: The Department of Justice (DOJ). The long-standing post-Watergate norm that the DOJ should operate independently from presidential control has been explicitly rejected by the current administration. Asserting total constitutional authority over all executive branch agencies under Article II, t...