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Lawfare Daily: Trump Trials and Tribulations Weekly Round-up (June 21, 2024)

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🗓️ 23 June 2024

⏱️ 93 minutes

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This episode of “Trump's Trials and Tribulations,” was recorded on June 21 in front of a live audience on YouTube and Zoom.


Lawfare Editor-in-Chief Benjamin Wittes spoke to Lawfare Legal Correspondent and Legal Fellow Anna Bower, University of Texas law professor Lee Kovarsky, and Georgetown Law professor Martin Lederman about the Friday hearing on the legality of Special Counsel Jack Smith’s appointment in the classified documents case, the appellate issues at hand in Trump’s NYC case, the latest filings in Fulton County, and more. And of course, they took audience questions from Lawfare Material Supporters on Zoom.

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forward slash careers. She's taking these arguments very seriously, but she at the same time, I think ultimately

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seemed to be leaning towards some skepticism

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about trumps, our argument that these charges should be dismissed.

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It's the lawfare Podcast, Trumps, Trials and Tribulations. I'm Benjamin Wittis, Law Fair's Editor-in-Chief,

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with Anna Bauer, Law Fair Legal Fellow and Courts Correspondent, Lee Kavarski,

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Law Professor at the University of Texas, and Marty Liederman, a law professor at Georgetown Law.

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So I am definitely a contrarian here, I guess, at least among the folks that you were referring to Ben. I don't think there's anything

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particularly out of the ordinary in the way the Supreme Court has handled the immunity case.

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In a live recording on June 21st we talked about the Friday hearing on the legality of Jack Smith's appointment in the classified documents case in South Florida,

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the appellate issues at hand in Trump's New York case, and much, much more. And honestly, I don't think that there's a scalpel sharp enough for the Supreme Court to make the cuts that it would need to make in order to avoid severing that artery with blood everywhere.

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