Hello and welcome to Background Briefing, available 247 at Background Briefing.org, I'm Ian Masters,

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

We'll begin with Trump's most brazen use of his tried and true delaying tactic,

with Wednesday's request to the Supreme Court, urging them not to get involved right now

with whether or not he is immune from prosecution in Jack Smith's, Jeremy the 6th case,

scheduled to go to trial in March of 2024.

Joining us is Dennis Aftagat, a former federal prosecutor and chief assistant city attorney in San Francisco,

who has won cases of significance in the United States Supreme Court and the California Supreme Court.

He currently serves as counsel two lawyers defending American democracy,

and he has an article at Ceylon. Shocking verdict against Rudy Giuliani serves as a warning shot

for Donald Trump. Then we'll assess whether the Colorado Supreme Court's ruling against Trump,

barring him from the state's ballot for violating Section 3 of the 14th Amendment,

will help or hurt Trump and speak with Lawrence Douglas, the James Grosfeld Chair in Law,

jurisprudence and Social Thought at Amherst College, and a contributing opinion writer for The Guardian.

His latest book is, Will He Go, Trump and the Looming Electoral Meltdown in 2020,

and we'll discuss his article at The Guardian.

Americans are hoping the courts will spare them an electoral reckoning with Trump.

Then finally, we'll speak with Mark Hanna, a senior fellow at the Institute for Global Affairs,

a non-profit public education organization at the Eurasia

group, and the creator and host of its None of the Above podcast. Mark is a term member of the

Council on Foreign Relations and a political partner at the Truman National Security Project,

a veteran of the Kerry and Obama presidential campaigns. He teaches at New York University,

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