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🗓️ 15 December 2023
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0:00.0 | M. S. W. Media. |
0:05.0 | So, Asha, does Jacksmith's move to seek immediate Supreme Court review of Judge Chutkin's decision mean that he's going to be on track |
0:15.9 | to have a trial in March? |
0:17.9 | Eh, it's complicated. |
0:19.9 | I'm Asha Rengappa. I teach National Security Law at Yale University. I'm a former FBI special |
0:30.2 | agent and I'm a legal contributor for ABC News. |
0:34.0 | And I'm Renata Mariati. |
0:36.0 | I'm a former federal prosecutor, a practicing lawyer, and a legal analyst. |
0:41.0 | And we're here to help you understand topics that can't be boiled down into a |
0:44.8 | soundbite or a tweet. |
0:46.1 | So Renato last week we talked about Judge Chutkin's ruling in Trump's |
0:59.3 | motion to have his January 6th case dismissed based on his claim that he has absolute immunity because his actions are covered by his presidential authority basically. |
1:16.8 | And we discussed all the reasons that Judge Chutkin |
1:20.4 | threw that claim out the window. |
1:24.0 | And it looks like Jack Smith has now gone directly |
1:31.0 | to the Supreme Court, sort of leapfrogging the Court of Appeals. |
1:36.8 | This is called a certification, |
1:40.1 | or sorry, a certiorari before judgment asking them to basically directly review her ruling. |
1:50.8 | So yes and in fact I mean I guess what I would say is a starting point is that this is actually |
1:56.6 | I'd say an implicit concession by Jack Smith. He's conceding that if he just let everything play out the way it ordinarily would that Trump could use this to push this past the election. |
2:08.7 | I think he made a calculus that there was a very good probability that Trump, if he just let this play out, |
2:17.0 | would end up delaying the election and I'll just note for everybody that's |
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