Checks and Balance: Trump carded
Checks and Balance from The Economist
The Economist
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🗓️ 4 August 2023
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
Donald Trump has been charged with the most serious political crime it is possible to commit in a democracy. A special counsel alleges that he plotted to overturn the 2020 election results, knowing that his claims of fraud were false. What do the latest charges mean for Donald Trump, and American democracy?
Legal expert Sarah Isgur tells us she thinks this will be a difficult case to prove. The Economist’s Steve Mazie profiles the man tasked with prosecuting Trump. And The Economist’s James Bennet considers what this will mean for the 2024 election.
Charlotte Howard hosts with Idrees Kahloon and Jon Fasman.
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| 0:27.2 | The Ku Klux Klan was on the rise, waging a campaign of intimidation and violence. |
| 0:38.7 | One of their aims was to stop black Americans exercising the voting rights they'd won |
| 0:43.0 | in the aftermath of the Civil War. |
| 0:46.1 | Congress responded with the Enforcement Act of 1870. Part of that law, section 241, |
| 0:52.0 | made it a crime for two or more people to, quote, |
| 0:55.2 | conspire to injure, oppress, threaten or intimidate anyone for exercising their rights |
| 1:00.5 | under the Constitution or federal law. |
| 1:03.4 | This, of course, included the right to vote. |
| 1:07.9 | The use of section 241 has expanded beyond its race-based origins over the past 150 years |
| 1:14.0 | to apply more broadly to election interference. |
| 1:17.2 | And it's an important part of the extraordinary case against Donald Trump |
| 1:21.1 | for his attempts to overturn the results of the 2020 election. |
| 1:26.4 | I'm Charlotte Howard. This is Checks and Balance from the Economist. |
| 1:33.6 | Each week, we take one big theme shaping American politics and explore it in depth. |
| 1:46.0 | Today, what do the latest charges against Donald Trump mean for him? |
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