Since taking office,
President Trump has retained full ownership of his business empire, and has
been receiving a stream of payments from foreign governments, which is
prohibited by Article 1, Section 9 of the Constitution and among legal
scholars, there isn’t much debate that he is violating the Constitution. However, as noted by Judd Legum the Editor in Chief for ThinkProgress, impeachment is unlikely while Republicans maintain
an iron grip on Congress and show little interest in holding Trump accountable
for anything, but there is still hope; and he points out that there is an
obscure legal tactic that could still be used to hold Trump accountable for
illegal acts without involving Congress.
Judd joins me today on the show to talk all about the way to hold Trump
accountable for violating the Emoluments Clause through the court system.
Over the past century,
agriculture around the globe has been radically transformed by new farming
methods, feed additives, and social and economic structures, often at the
expense of human health. In her new book Chickenizing Farms and Food How Industrial Meat Production Endangers Workers, Animals, and Consumers,
Ellen K. Silbergeld, a professor of
environmental health sciences, epidemiology, and health policy and management
at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, reveals the unsafe world of
big agriculture’s top-down, contract-based factory farming system—and its
negative consequences for workers, consumers, and the environment. Ellen joins me on the show today to talk all
about the book and the complex history of the modern industrial food animal
production.
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