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CAFE Insider 1/9: Trump Immunity & Insurrection

Stay Tuned with Preet

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4.832.4K Ratings

🗓️ 9 January 2024

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

In this excerpt from the CAFE Insider podcast, Preet Bharara and Joyce Vance break down the oral arguments heard by a panel of D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals judges on former President Donald Trump’s claims of absolute immunity in the election subversion criminal case. In the full episode, Preet and Joyce discuss the efforts in multiple states seeking to disqualify Trump from running for president again by citing Section 3 of the 14th Amendment, including the Supreme Court’s decision to grant review of the ruling that barred Trump from the Colorado Republican primary ballot. Stay informed. For analysis of the most important legal and political issues of our time, become a member of CAFE Insider: www.cafe.com/insider. You’ll get access to full episodes of the podcast, and other exclusive content. This podcast is brought to you by CAFE Studios and Vox Media Podcast Network. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hey folks, Preet here.

0:04.0

Former President Donald Trump has had a busy start to 2024.

0:08.0

The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals just heard oral arguments on Trump's claims of absolute immunity in the election

0:14.4

subversion criminal case. The Supreme Court recently declined to consider the

0:18.9

appeal for now. Meanwhile, Trump is fighting efforts in multiple states to disqualify him from running for president again, citing Section 3 of the 14th Amendment.

0:28.0

Last week, the Supreme Court agreed to hear an appeal of the ruling that barred Trump from the Colorado

0:33.2

Republican primary ballot. Joyce Vance and I discuss all that and more on the Cafe Insider

0:38.1

podcast. To hear our full conversation and access all other Cafe Insider content, try the membership for just

0:44.6

one dollar for one month. You can do that at cafe.com slash insider. That's

0:50.0

cafe.com.

0:53.0

We look forward to having you as a part of the insider community.

0:59.6

We are recording a little bit later than normal on Tuesday morning because we were just both in

1:04.7

our separate homes watching or at least listening to the oral argument before the

1:10.4

DC Circuit Court of Appeals

1:12.6

by counsel for Donald Trump

1:14.8

and lawyers for special counsel Jack Smith

1:17.4

on the question of immunity

1:19.2

regarding the January 6th related trial in the district court in the District of Columbia.

1:25.4

And it was pretty interesting oral argument. I think we should take one step back

1:28.8

and just remind everyone what this is about. People will recall that Donald Trump has asserted what Joyce

1:36.2

and I believe is an overbroad, many experts believe is an overbroad claim of

1:40.3

absolute immunity against prosecution for acts taken while he was in office

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