#PREVIEW: #SCOTUS: #TRUMP: #IMMUNITY: From a longer conversation with Hoover's Richard Epstein about SCOTUS and the question of presidential immunity in the forthcomng Federal trial. And also about double jeopardy that the Professor argues is a strong ca
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🗓️ 5 January 2024
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https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/02/us/politics/trump-appeals-court-immunity.html
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| 0:27.0 | This is John Batchelor speaking with Professor Richard Epstein, Senior Fellow of the Hoover Institution, teaches law at University of Chicago |
| 0:36.2 | and NYU about the presidency, the appeals by the Supreme Court, |
| 0:42.6 | former president, candidate for the presidency, |
| 0:45.8 | to Colorado, and as well, the appeals |
| 0:48.9 | to the Supreme Court about immunity. |
| 0:51.8 | These matters are separate, but they're coming together around the |
| 0:54.5 | Supreme Court. Here Richard deals with the question of immunity. As president you |
| 1:02.3 | cannot be prosecuted as the understanding in history according to former President |
| 1:07.4 | Trump's lawyers. |
| 1:09.2 | And double jeopardy, an issue that Richard presses very carefully and illustrates why double jeopardy is at hand |
| 1:17.6 | because of that impeachment and acquittal trial that took place in 2021. Here's Professor Richard Epstein on the tangle |
| 1:26.2 | around the Supreme Court to do with the candidacy of former President Donald |
| 1:31.2 | Trump. |
| 1:32.6 | Well, the immunity case is hopeless for the president of the United States. |
| 1:36.6 | Now there's already been one opinion issued by the Court of Appeals for the District of |
| 1:40.3 | Columbia. |
| 1:41.3 | And they say it's one thing to be president, it's another |
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