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CAFE Insider 3/5: A Predictable SCOTUS Ruling

Stay Tuned with Preet

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Politics, Government, Society & Culture, News

4.8 • 32.4K Ratings

🗓️ 5 March 2024

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

In this excerpt from the CAFE Insider podcast, Preet Bharara and Joyce Vance break down the Supreme Court’s unanimous ruling that states cannot disqualify former President Donald Trump from the ballot for his role in the January 6 insurrection and seeking to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election. In the full episode, Preet and Joyce further discuss the Supreme Court’s decision, including Justice Clarence Thomas’s decision not to recuse himself from the matter and speculation that Justice Sonia Sotomayor initially planned to dissent from the ruling. They also analyze the Court’s decision to grant review of Trump’s immunity defense in the election subversion criminal prosecution and Trump’s increasingly busy trial calendar in the lead-up to the November election. 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 the 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

Big Supreme Court news this week.

0:06.2

The justices unanimously ruled that states cannot disqualify former President Donald Trump from

0:10.3

the ballot for his role in the January 6th insurrection and seeking to

0:14.2

overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election. But the justices were

0:18.4

divided on how far the decision should go. Meanwhile, the court granted review of Trump's immunity defense in the

0:24.9

election subversion criminal prosecution. Oral arguments are scheduled for

0:28.6

late April. Complicating Trump's trial calendar, as Judge Cannon and Florida also considers when to

0:34.4

schedule the Marlago documents trial. Joyce Vance and I discuss all that and

0:38.5

more on the Café Insider Podcast to hear our full conversation and access all other Cafe Insider content, try the membership

0:46.7

for just $1 for one month. You can do that at Cafe.com slash Insider.

0:52.1

That's Cafe.com slash insider. We look forward to having you as a part of the

0:57.0

insider community. So let's talk about the first item, which we've been talking about for some time, and it's a bit of a

1:08.5

controversial subject and people have different views about how it should have gone but the Supreme Court ruled in

1:14.6

fairly short order 9 to 0 on the question of whether or not Donald Trump by

1:21.1

operation of section 3 of the 14th Amendment could be removed from the

1:25.6

ballot based on the language of that section of the 14th Amendment that relates

1:31.4

to insurrection.

1:33.0

And I will say, I don't want to do any sort of I told you so's.

1:37.0

Of course when people preface a sentence with,

1:39.0

I don't want to do any I told you so.

1:40.0

What follows is often some kind of I told you so.

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