Just How Bad Were the Oral Arguments Re: Presidential Immunity?
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🗓️ 29 April 2024
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Summary
Episode 1028
Can a former President of the United States be prosecuted for trying to overturn a democratic election? The Supreme Court just spent two hours and forty minutes (!) hearing a case in which they were supposed to be reviewing this simple question and Donald Trump’s claims of total immunity. We review the last oral argument of this term and try to cut through the bad faith, irrelevance, and misdirection to understand what is actually happening here and where it all might be going.
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DC Trump indictment (8/1/23)
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CSPAN’S complete bookmarked SCOTUS oral arguments in Trump v. U.S. (4/25/24)
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| 0:00.0 | I hate the Supreme Court! the Supreme Court has roundly rejected prior restraint. |
| 0:23.0 | This is not a First Amendment thing. |
| 0:26.0 | I printed out a sign especially for him using his favorite font, Garamand. |
| 0:31.0 | Who has a favorite font? I read on the internet that it's not against the law for me to go to the bathroom while the |
| 0:37.0 | Fest and seatbelt sign is on, so... |
| 0:39.0 | Seatbelt sign is on. |
| 0:40.0 | But is it against the law though? Hello and welcome to opening arguments. |
| 0:46.0 | This is episode 1,000 28. |
| 0:48.0 | I'm your host Thomas Smith and that's your real life attorney. |
| 0:51.0 | Matt Cameron, how you doing Matt? I'm feeling completely immune from |
| 0:54.4 | prosecution how about you? Were you the president? I just think everybody might be |
| 0:58.9 | really after reading this yeah I think it's only Alito's friends. That's the only people who matter. |
| 1:04.6 | Oral arguments in the immunity case, this is one, Matt, where I, I for one, need OA because I saw a wide range of reactions. |
| 1:13.4 | I really did. |
| 1:14.4 | I mean on one sense it was like, oh great, this looks horrible. |
| 1:16.7 | In other sense I was a little bit encouraged because there was a lot of reaction |
| 1:19.7 | like on Reddit and places that was just like, oh, so the court's fake now? |
| 1:23.4 | And I was like, well, I'm always a fan of that. |
| 1:24.8 | Like, I do want the world in the country |
| 1:27.2 | to realize that the court is fake. |
| 1:29.3 | But I don't know, I listen to the world arguments |
| 1:31.6 | and I'm like, I don't totally get it like I don't totally get it I don't |
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