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Just How Bad Were the Oral Arguments Re: Presidential Immunity?
Manage episode 415250789 series 2387036
Episode 1028
Can a former President of the United States be prosecuted for trying to overturn a democratic election? The Supreme Court just spent two hours and forty minutes (!) hearing a case in which they were supposed to be reviewing this simple question and Donald Trump’s claims of total immunity. We review the last oral argument of this term and try to cut through the bad faith, irrelevance, and misdirection to understand what is actually happening here and where it all might be going.
DC Trump indictment (8/1/23)
CSPAN’S complete bookmarked SCOTUS oral arguments in Trump v. U.S. (4/25/24)
If you’d like to support the show (and lose the ads!), please pledge at patreon.com/law!
931 episodes
Manage episode 415250789 series 2387036
Episode 1028
Can a former President of the United States be prosecuted for trying to overturn a democratic election? The Supreme Court just spent two hours and forty minutes (!) hearing a case in which they were supposed to be reviewing this simple question and Donald Trump’s claims of total immunity. We review the last oral argument of this term and try to cut through the bad faith, irrelevance, and misdirection to understand what is actually happening here and where it all might be going.
DC Trump indictment (8/1/23)
CSPAN’S complete bookmarked SCOTUS oral arguments in Trump v. U.S. (4/25/24)
If you’d like to support the show (and lose the ads!), please pledge at patreon.com/law!
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