Episode 81 (original 2020 series)
COURTSIDE with Neal Katyal
Neal Katyal
4.9 • 614 Ratings
🗓️ 17 May 2021
⏱️ 9 minutes
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May 16, 2021
Can Florida Governor DeSantis prevent Donald Trump from being extradited to face justice in New York if Trump is indicted? Answer: No.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Courtside, everyone, a discussion of legal issues. This week, spurred by a Wall Street Journal reporter's question to me, suppose Donald Trump gets indicted in Georgia or New York. |
| 0:13.9 | What happens to him? There are rumors that the Florida governor, Governor DeSantis, that's the rocket scientist governor who blew off COVID. |
| 0:23.0 | He wants to now blow off an extradition request. Extradition is the formal process by which |
| 0:29.0 | you move a accused person from one place to another. So the question is, can the governor shield Donald Trump and protect him in Florida |
| 0:40.3 | from facing the music in other states? Politico magazine is already reporting that Palm Beach |
| 0:48.3 | County officials have begun to prepare for the possibility that Trump will be indicted in New York, and they're |
| 0:55.5 | developing contingency plans on how to deal with such an extradition request from New York |
| 1:01.3 | to Florida. And Donald Trump, meanwhile, has been busy cozying up to Governor DeSantis |
| 1:07.8 | to the point where Trump is even floating making DeSantis his vice |
| 1:13.0 | presidential pick in 2024. Now, given what Donald Trump tried to do the last guy on January 6th, |
| 1:20.6 | that's about as good as an offer to be a drummer in Spinal Tap. But heck, if you're DeSantis, |
| 1:26.8 | what other options do you have? Now, before we dive in |
| 1:30.9 | to why DeSantis actually doesn't have much power here to protect Trump, let's just acknowledge |
| 1:36.7 | that Donald Trump's ideal moonshot outcome is to be trapped in Florida for the rest of his life. |
| 1:44.0 | Come to think of it, in many ways, |
| 1:45.8 | that's my ideal outcome too, except for that little pesky thing called justice. And Donald Trump, |
| 1:52.4 | of course, doesn't talk about justice a lot. He does claim he wanted to be the law and order |
| 1:57.5 | president until he realized that he was the villain on this week's episode. |
| 2:03.4 | Actually, forget about an episode. It looks like Donald Trump is about to get a whole spin-off, |
| 2:08.1 | a whole series. Law and Order, malignant narcissistic unit. Okay, look, here's the law. |
| 2:15.0 | It's true that, you know, and this is something that Trump supporters |
| 2:18.9 | are pushing, that Chapter 941 of Florida's Code does say that extradition requests are handled |
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