Make It Make Sense with Grant Hermes
Politics has never been more chaotic, and most podcasts just add to the noise. Make It Make Sense with Grant Hermes cuts through it.
Grant is an AP Award-winning journalist with over a decade of on-the-ground reporting on the biggest political stories, scandals, and elections in America. Twice a week, he takes the stories dominating the headlines and breaks them down in plain English — no jargon, no spin, no shouting.
If you care about what’s happening in this country but you’re exhausted by how it’s being covered, this is the show for you. Real reporting. Clear explanations. Actual context.
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Make It Make Sense with Grant Hermes
Order In The Courts?
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It has been a busy week in the federal courts. Grant makes sense out of the dizzying case around Venezuelan migrants who were flown to a maximum security prison in El Salvador, many without criminal records, and the Trump Admin's lawyers' attempts to keep them there.
Plus, Trump's attempt to ban trans-Americans from the military is paused leading to backlash from Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth.
AND! There's more from the world of DOGE where it's been win-some-lose-some. Musk and DOGE are winning cases against labor unions but are locked out of Social Security and may have broken the law by dismantling USAID.
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