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COURTSIDE with Neal Katyal

Episode 66 (original 2020 series)

COURTSIDE with Neal Katyal

Neal Katyal

Politics, News, Society & Culture

4.9614 Ratings

🗓️ 20 January 2021

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

January 19, 2021


Trump’s last full day; a deep dive into Biden’s first day and his reversal of the Muslim Ban.


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0:00.0

Welcome to Courtside, everyone, a discussion of the legal issues surrounding Donald Trump and his presidency.

0:08.0

It is day 77 after the election, 11 weeks.

0:13.0

And we have just a few hours left in the presidency of Donald Trump.

0:17.0

The litigation count stands at 1 out of 65 cases that Donald Trump won. That case got him

0:23.5

no votes. The insurrection count stands at one case at the United States Capitol and unfortunately more

0:30.0

in state capitals as well. Now, the insurrectionists that were busted after last week's attack

0:36.1

are arguing that Donald Trump should pardon them.

0:39.2

They're saying, look, we had your back, now you should have ours.

0:43.2

Sources close to the administration tonight are saying that Trump is not going to issue any

0:47.6

sort of blanket pardon because it would play poorly at his impeachment trial.

0:52.6

It may have taken 1,457 days, but it looks like finally a few Trump supporters have figured

0:59.6

out who their president actually is.

1:03.0

A number of GOP leaders, including Mike Pence, are expected to skip tomorrow's 8 a.m.

1:09.3

Big Trump send-off celebration and instead attend the inauguration

1:14.5

with all of its A-list celebrities. I mean, I would too. I have a feeling that Trump's rendition

1:20.1

of the national anthem is not going to be quite as good as Lady Gaga's. Donald Trump has been an

1:26.0

unmitigated disaster, and tonight, I was thinking I was going

1:30.1

to talk about the pardons that he's going to issue, but he's laid on them, so they haven't come

1:34.4

out. So instead, I wanted to spend the time telling you a story about something I don't think

1:38.8

that you're going to hear tomorrow, but it reveals the way in which America's values have

1:43.7

been under assault for the last four years

1:46.3

and how they're now back. It involves a Muslim ban. So you might remember that first Friday of

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