The Trump Indictment
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🗓️ 10 June 2023
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Dahlia Lithwick and Mark Joseph Stern join forces again for an urgent look at Special Counsel Jack Smith’s indictment of former President Donald J Trump. Trump is facing 37 counts in seven charges in the case concerning his mishandling of classified documents, and trying to cover up that mishandling.
Then, Dahlia is joined by Amicus’ election law guiding light, Professor Richard L Hasen, for a close look at the big and shocking voting rights case decided at the Supreme Court this week. Professor Hasen takes us through the fascinating backstory of the case and what Chief Justice John Roberts’ majority opinion in Allen v Milligan can tell us about another big elections case Moore v Harper, and what we might be able to expect in the affirmative action decision that will also be coming down in the next couple of weeks.
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| 0:30.6 | Today, an indict moves them sealed, charging Donald J. Trump with felony violations of our national |
| 0:37.6 | security laws as well as participating in a conspiracy to obstruct justice. I invite everyone to read |
| 0:46.3 | it full to understand the scope and the gravity of the crime's charged. |
| 0:51.5 | Hi and welcome back to Amicus. This is Slates Podcast about the law and the Supreme Court and |
| 1:05.5 | the rule of law. I'm Dialithwick. I cover that for Slate. This is the Saturday edition |
| 1:12.8 | and we are coming right now to the end of one of the single most important weeks in American |
| 1:18.4 | legal history. Special counsel, Jack Smith, released an indictment describing how former president |
| 1:25.1 | Donald J. Trump kept highly classified documents concerning nuclear programs and attack plans |
| 1:31.3 | after he left the White House, then lied about it, and obstructed law enforcement officers |
| 1:36.9 | attempting to recover them. In a moment, I'm going to be joined by a Slate senior writer, |
| 1:41.8 | Mark Joseph Stern, to sort through that indictment which was unsealed Friday afternoon. Later on |
| 1:48.0 | in the show, we're going to go beyond our initial quick-turn reactions and analysis of Thursday's |
| 1:53.2 | big voting rights at case and kind of get under the hood to understand what made it tick, |
| 1:58.5 | what it did and did not achieve. And we're going to do that with our election law |
| 2:03.6 | explicator and chief professor Richard L. Hassan of UCLA. But first, after Donald Trump |
| 2:11.1 | live-blogged a lot of feelings and all caps on true social Thursday night about an imminent |
| 2:17.1 | indictment, special counsel, Jack Smith made this brief statement Friday afternoon confirming |
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