378. Asha Rangappa. “SEDITIOUS BEHAVIOR, punishable by DEATH!”- Trump to Dems. What Orders Might be Illegal? Venezuela Boat Strikes and the AUMF. Comey, Epstein and the Courts. “We’re Already in a Constitutional Crisis.” College Tours and Love Is Blind.

Independent Americans with Paul Rieckhoff · Nov 20, 2025 · 37m

In a week where political rhetoric reaches new levels of danger and America’s legal system braces for impact, Independent Americans host Paul Rieckhoff (@PaulRieckhoff) sits down with the show’s resident legal heavyweight Asha Rangappa (FBI veteran, Yale professor, Substack baller) for an unfiltered, expert breakdown of the legal issues and headlines setting America aflame. Asha returns to help us parse Trump’s escalating and dangerous “seditious” threats to Democrat lawmakers who posted a video to the troops, the legality of US military interventions (like controversial drug boat strikes)…