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Talking Feds

A Second Look At The Jack Smith Brief

Talking Feds

Harry Litman

News, Politics, Government

4.84.5K Ratings

🗓️ 10 October 2024

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

When Judge Tanya Chutkan abruptly unsealed Jack Smith’s 165 page brief describing the evidence he proposes to use to convict Donald Trump of trying to steal the 2020 election, there was a mad dash of activity as we all scrambled to mine the best nuggets of information; and there were many of them. Read of the brief reveals a whole other series of insights that have been overlooked or under reported to date. Harry talks with the ever-tenacious and insightful Marcy Wheeler, a.k.a. the empty wheel, and in a detailed 45-minute conversation, the two exchange and analyze the most important outstanding revelations in the brief and bear down on what the additional key points reveal about Smith’s case and the likely course of litigation ahead. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

The Supreme Court term has officially ended and after some truly terrifying decisions

0:05.8

it can be hard to know what it all means and what is next. That's where strict scrutiny comes in.

0:10.4

Join us, hosts and constitutional law professors. Each week as we break down the latest headline in a laugh or two. Strict scrutiny is your guide to the Supreme Court. New episodes

0:23.7

drop every Monday. Make sure to subscribe to strict scrutiny wherever you get your

0:27.3

podcast and on YouTube. Welcome to Talking Feds 1 on 1, deep dive discussions with national figures about the most fascinating and

0:44.6

consequential issues defining our culture and shaping our lives. I'm your

0:50.2

host Harry Littman.

0:52.6

When the brief from Jack Smith, the 165-page Magnum Opus

0:57.8

was suddenly published last week,

1:00.5

people poured through it intensively to get all the nuggets of new information and

1:06.7

bombshells of which there were a few dozen in there and you had a race of real focus to the big points in the brief and then since

1:19.0

then interestingly enough because people have been waiting for this evidence in one form or another, including a trial, there hasn't been that much of a second look, and that's what I wanted to do today.

1:32.0

Have a little bit of a survey of some important points that were

1:37.5

maybe missed in the first time around as people including me were very quickly foraging.

1:44.5

And to do it, we have really the perfect person.

1:48.2

Marcy Wheeler, known to many of you,

1:51.2

but she's long been known by the handle empty wheel she's an independent

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journalist specializing in national security and civil liberties she writes at her blog Empty Wheel, publishes in many outlets including

2:06.7

motherboard the new republic and Al Jazeera and appears frequently on TV and

2:10.9

radio and is the author of anatomy of deceit a

2:14.9

primer on the CIA leak investigation but above all those things she is

2:20.7

particularly I think, meticulous, thorough,

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