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NPR News: 11-12-2024 5PM EST

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🗓️ 12 November 2024

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This message comes from Indiana University. Indiana University performs breakthrough research every year,

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making discoveries that improve human health, combat climate change, and move society forward.

0:12.3

More at IU.edu slash forward.

0:16.7

Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Jack Spear. A judge in New York City has decided to postpone a decision on whether President-elect Donald Trump has immunity from prosecution in his criminal hush money trial. That decision now could come next week.

0:33.5

Attorneys for Trump say prosecutors presented evidence during the trial that stem from Trump's time in office.

0:38.5

Ambers Mattibisteo reports they argue that should not have been allowed.

0:41.4

Lawyers for the Manhattan District Attorney over the weekend asked New York Judge Juan Mershahn to delay his decision on immunity in order to review how the presidential election would impact Trump's landmark criminal trial.

0:52.8

Trump in May was found guilty of 34 felony counts of falsifying business records.

0:57.7

Emil Bovi, one of Trump's lawyers agreed with the delay.

1:01.3

Bovi said the stay and even a dismissal are necessary to avoid unconstitutional impediments

1:06.3

to Trump's ability to govern.

1:08.2

The New York judge was expected today to make a decision on whether

1:11.3

some evidence brought in during Trump's trial violated the U.S. Supreme Court's recent ruling

1:16.4

that presidents cannot be prosecuted for official acts taken in office. Humana Bustillo and PR News,

1:22.4

New York. The federal judge is temporarily blocking Louisiana law that would require public schools to display the

1:28.7

ten commandments in every classroom. Arbor Ujah, Subembers Station WWNO as more.

1:34.0

In granting the temporary injunction, the judge says the law is unconstitutional on its face,

1:40.1

meaning he doesn't see a situation where it wouldn't violate the Constitution.

1:44.8

He says the law has an overtly religious purpose, and that plaintiffs are likely to win their lawsuit against the state by claiming it violates the First Amendment, which protects freedom of religion.

1:56.2

State officials argue the Ten Commandments have historic and cultural value, and that's why they should be displayed in schools.

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They plan to appeal.

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The case could make it all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court, which has a conservative supermajority.

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