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The Brian Lehrer Show

Explaining Trump's Major Indictments and More

The Brian Lehrer Show

WNYC

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4.71.4K Ratings

🗓️ 5 March 2024

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

Melissa Murray, NYU law professor, co-host of the "Strict Scrutiny" podcast, and Andrew Weissmann, professor of practice at NYU School of Law who was the lead prosecutor in Robert Mueller’s Special Counsel's Office, authors of The Trump Indictments: The Historic Charging Documents with Commentary (W. W. Norton & Company, 2024), offer context on the major legal cases facing the former president and discuss the Supreme Court's ruling allowing Donald Trump to appear on the Colorado ballot.

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0:00.0

It's the Brian Air Show on WNYC. Good morning everyone. Happy Super Tuesday. If it is a

0:16.8

happy Super Tuesday, it's a happy Super Tuesday for Donald Trump and those who support

0:21.2

him in Colorado, one of the 15 states voting today.

0:25.6

You know that the news broke yesterday during yesterday show, in fact, that the Supreme Court

0:31.5

ruled 9 to nothing that Colorado cannot remove

0:34.4

Trump from the presidential ballot just because he caused an insurrection,

0:38.4

that little thing that's covered in the insurrection clause of the Constitution.

0:43.0

But here's an aspect of that ruling

0:45.0

that I think has been under covered so far.

0:47.6

None of the nine justices disputed the finding

0:51.3

of the Colorado courts that Trump engaged in an insurrection.

0:56.0

Maybe they just didn't need to take a position on that in order to come to their conclusion,

1:00.0

or maybe their silence is more meaningful than that and suggests the strength of the

1:05.7

January 6th related criminal charges against Trump.

1:09.6

We have the perfect guests to answer that question and talk more broadly about the

1:14.0

intersection of criminal accountability and the presidential election now

1:17.8

NYU law professors Melissa Murray and Andrew Weisman they have a new book called The Trump Indictments,

1:24.9

the Historic Documents with Commentary.

1:28.0

And it's exactly what the title says.

1:29.5

The actual text of the four criminal indictments

1:32.3

against Trump annotated with commentary.

1:35.6

Those four indictments are in the federal election fraud case, the

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