PREVIEW: #SCOTUS: Conversation with Professor Richard Epstein of the Hoover Institution regarding the decisions by the Roberts Court to stay out of the election drama -- first in the ballot cases in Colorado and Maine, and likely now in the immunity case
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John Batchelor
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🗓️ 26 April 2024
⏱️ 4 minutes
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| 0:09.1 | tropics. |
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| 0:30.0 | This is John Bachelors, speaking with colleague |
| 0:32.0 | Richard Epstein of the Hoover Institution, a senior fellow, he teaches law at NYU and the University of Chicago. |
| 0:38.0 | About the decisions the Supreme Court has been obliged to make or not make his last months with regard to the |
| 0:46.1 | 2024 election. First the question of who can and who cannot say who is on a state ballot that matter came up during the primaries. |
| 0:57.0 | The matter of turning on whether Donald Trump was right beyond the ballot in Colorado and Maine or whether he could be prevented. |
| 1:05.6 | Richard speaks to that and how he agrees with the court's decision. |
| 1:09.3 | And then he turns to speaking of the most recent event at the court about the election, does the president |
| 1:16.2 | enjoy immunity when he is in office? |
| 1:20.1 | And Richard has a very careful way of explaining how the Supreme Court will find a way |
| 1:25.8 | to pause in that decision and to make certain that decision does not come before this election. |
| 1:35.6 | Supreme Court wishing, as the professor has taught me, |
| 1:38.6 | to stay out of the election. |
| 1:40.5 | Is Richard Epstein to explain, first on the matter of appearing on state ballots, |
| 1:46.0 | second or not, and second on the question of immunity before the court. |
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