From WNYC Studios.

I'm Brian Lerer.

This is my daily politics podcast.

It's Thursday, February 22.

So is there enough legal news in the headlines right now?

I mean, it's not just Trump.

You know how we have three branches of

government, the executive, legislative, and judicial branches. You know how that works? Well, the president

and the governors, the executives, are doing some stuff. Biden just canceled more student debt yesterday,

right, from the White House, for example. Congress absolutely gridlocked and doing almost

nothing, right? But the courts, the judicial branch of government, they are rocking with action

right now with so much at stake in the hands of judges, lawyers, prosecutors, and juries.

Here's just a quick list of a few that are front and center right now.

The Supreme Court could decide any day or even any minute we are actually watching the ticker

on whether Donald Trump has immunity from prosecution for things he did as president,

even if they were actual crimes.

While Trump compares himself to Alexei Navalny, a special counsel in the Biden administration,

has recently indicted Biden's son, and another special counsel investigating the president himself,

has publicly put his thumb on the scale of public opinion about the president's mental acuity. Remember that? No different from the Putin regime, says Trump. Maybe not. Meanwhile, an informant in the impeachment

inquiry against Biden has now been charged with making up evidence, helped along by guess who, Russia.

Yet another case for the court system.

New York's Attorney General wants to seize Trump properties if needed to pay his $355 million

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