David Greene

Los Angeles

Hosting @kcrw. Hosting “Reign of Error” from @smartless & @campsidemedia. Co-founded Go There Wines. Fmr @NPR. Married to @roseprevite & Pittsburgh sports

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White House and federal judges battle over deportation policy

6 days ago | kcrw.com | David Greene

Federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents wrongfully deported Maryland resident Kilmar Abrego Garcia to El Salvador last month. Abrego Garcia currently sits in a maximum security prison there, despite holding legal immigration status and no criminal record. U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis ruled that the Trump administration should facilitate Abrego Garcia's return, but the White House says it's Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele's responsibility instead.
Trump tries to tariff the US to greatness

1 week ago | kcrw.com | David Greene

March Madness may have ended, but Market Madness went into effect shortly after Trump announced "reciprocal tariffs" - some over 100% - on imported goods from dozens of countries. Stocks plummeted. Republican figureheads like Ted Cruz spoke out against the sweeping plan. According to Trump, his move became a success once global leaders started offering new trade deals. Then, just hours after the tariffs went into effect, Trump declared a 90-day pause on most of them, excluding China.
EFF Joins Amicus Brief Supporting Perkins Coie Law Firm Against Unconstitutional Executive Order

3 weeks ago | eff.org | David Greene

EFF has joined the American Civil Liberties Union and other legal advocacy organizations across the ideological spectrum in filing an amicus brief asking a federal judge to strike down President Donald Trump’s executive order targeting law firm Perkins Coie for its past work on voting rights lawsuits and its representation of the President’s prior political opponents.
White House security officials come under fire over messaging app mishap

3 weeks ago | kcrw.com | David Greene

Earlier this week, The Atlantic Editor-In-Chief Jeffrey Goldberg revealed that top-level White House officials accidentally added him to a group chat about upcoming war plans. While some administration staffers initially denied the existence of the group chat, Trump and White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt pivoted to denouncing Goldberg and his publication instead. Is this blunder big enough to send the administration into crisis?
Is the White House gearing up for a larger fight with federal judges?

1 month ago | kcrw.com | David Greene

The Trump administration caught some judiciary backlash last weekend after sending two deportation flights of Venezuelan immigrants to El Salvador. While the administration defends the flights under the "Alien Enemies Act," federal Judge James Boasberg ruled them as unconstitutional. The flights took off anyway, leading to major questions about whether the Trump administration defied court orders to deport immigrants. What precedent does that set if true?
Will Trump's power go unchecked?

1 month ago | kcrw.com | David Greene

Earlier this week, Donald Trump took to the U.S. Capitol for this term's first joint address to Congress. He showed off his executive order accomplishments and chided opponents. The joint address was just short of a victory lap for his and the GOP's political dominance. Do Democrats have a plan to build a stronger opposition party? Trump also carved out speech time to acknowledge his tiff with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
Has the noise of Trump's first month covered up a lack of sound policy?

1 month ago | kcrw.com | David Greene

Donald Trump's return to office has inspired constant breaking news headlines. This week: The administration faces scrutiny after the Elon Musk-led DOGE team instructed all federal workers to justify their employment via email. Should government workers take the threats seriously? Differentiating what's worth worrying about might be difficult when words like "oligarchy" and "autocracy" get thrown around. Trump may be a polarizing figure, but is he definitionally an oligarch?
Trump sours on Zelensky amid US talks with Russia

2 months ago | kcrw.com | David Greene

Before his re-election, Donald Trump promised to end the war between Russia and Ukraine. Earlier this week, Secretary of State Marco Rubio initiated talks between Russia and the U.S. without Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. Trump then took to social media to call Zelensky a dictator who "better move fast." Is U.S. foreign policy shifting to blending the lines between allies and adversaries? On American soil, the Department of Justice is facing a massive shakeup.
Is the right spearheading a new form of language policing?

2 months ago | kcrw.com | David Greene

An inquiry from the Wall Street Journal into a social media account linked to a Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) staffer led to the employee's resignation from the Elon Musk-led agency. Following an impromptu Twitter poll from Musk and support from Vice President JD Vance, the employee was welcomed back into DOGE. Is the re-hiring a blow against "cancel culture," or is an empowered right playing a similar game but with new rules?
Can we make sense of Trump and Musk's political approaches?

2 months ago | kcrw.com | David Greene

This week, Trump lobbied for the United States military to oversee the reconstruction of the Gaza Strip and turn it into the "riviera of the Middle East." He forced a brief trade standoff with Canada and Mexico, paused foreign aid, and tried to freeze federal funding for public loans, grants, and other financial aid. American voters seemed to want Trump's particular brand of disrupting the status quo, but could that backfire?