Hello and welcome to background briefing available 24 7 at background briefing.

I'm Ian Masters and today we'll look into a number of stories and issues in the news.

We'll begin with today's Supreme Court hearing on Trump's immunity claim

that is delaying Jack Smith's Washington, D.C. case against Trump for the January 6th insurrection.

And based on what we heard today, the far-right justices will delay things even more until after the election or possibly

rule in favor of presidents having immunity to commit crimes in and out of office.

Joining us is Aziz Huck, a professor of law at the University of Chicago, who is a former clerk

for Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and is the co-author of

How to Save a Constitution democracy, and his latest book is The Collapse of Constitutional Remedies.

He had an article at Politico back at the end of February. Why is Trump getting special treatment

from the Supreme Court? Then we will assess the implications of the TikTok ban President Biden signed,

not just in terms of possible influence China has over millions of young American users,

but how the social media platform relates to the broader problem of surveillance capitalism,

which is the business model for Facebook, Google,

and other American tech giants. Joining us is Anne Kokes, a professor of media studies at the

University of Virginia, whose research examines Sino, US media, and technology relations.

She is the author of Hollywood Made in China and most recently trafficking data,

how China is winning the battle for digital sovereignty, and we will discuss a article at the

Los Angeles Times, why a TikTok ban isn't what we need. Then finally we'll speak with David

Austin Walsh, a postdoctoral fellow at the Yale program

for the study of anti-Semitism and a college fellow at the University of Virginia.

He's the author of the new book, Just Out, Taking America Back, the Conservative Movement and

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