Hello and welcome to Background Briefing, available 24-7 at background briefing.

I'm Ian Masters, and today we'll examine a number of stories and issues in the news.

We'll begin with the blunt ruling from a three-judge panel on the Court of Appeals,

denying Trump absolute immunity, which he is bound to appeal as he seeks to delay the

insurrection trial. Joining us to discuss that and Thursday's Supreme Court hearing on

Colorado's attempt to disqualify Trump

from the ballot and whether that would trigger serial overlapping waves of resistance is Aziz Huck,

a professor of law at the University of Chicago. He is a former clerk for Supreme Court Justice

Ruth Bader Ginsburg and is the co-author of Unchecked and Unbalanced,

Presidential Power and Time of Terror,

and How to Save a Constitutional Democracy.

And his latest book is The Collapse of Constitutional Remedies.

He is a contributor to an article at Politico,

which we will discuss, Supreme Court Shocker.

Here's what happens if Trump gets kicked off the ballot.

Then we'll look further into the season of violence ahead, starting with today's request by

Nikki Haley for Secret Service protection from Trump's supporters fired up with vengeance because

of his denunciations of her, joining us to discuss how violence is moving from the back burner to the front burner

as the 2024 election gets underway is Wendy Veer,

the president and co-founder of the global project against hate and extremism,

where her work focuses on the effects of extremism on our society, systemic racism, economic

inequality, immigration, criminal justice reform, and LGBTQ rights.

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