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#PREVIEW: #SCOTUS: #TRUMP: #IMMUNITY: (See note below) 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 a

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🗓️ 5 January 2024

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#PREVIEW: #SCOTUS: #TRUMP: #IMMUNITY: (See note below)
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 card in Trump's favor. More of this later tonight -- including the Colorado case.

Note: Late editorial decision to wait until the new week for Professor Epstein to comment on the Colorado case now before SCOTUS.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/02/us/politics/trump-appeals-court-immunity.html

1888 SCOTUS

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This is John Bachelor speaking with Professor Richard Epstein, senior fellow of the Hoover Institution,

0:35.5

teaches Lloyd University of Chicago and NYU about the presidency, the appeals by Donald Trump, former president, candidate for the presidency,

0:47.6

to Colorado, and as well the appeals to the Supreme Court about immunity. These matters are separate

0:55.1

but they're coming together around the Supreme Court. Here Richard deals with

0:59.6

the question of immunity as President you cannot be prosecuted is the understanding in history according

1:07.8

former President Trump's lawyers, and double jeopardy, an issue that Richard presses very carefully and illustrates why double

1:17.7

jeopardy is at hand because of that impeachment and acquittal trial that took place in 2021. Here's Professor

1:25.8

Richard Epstein on the tangle around the Supreme Court to do with the candidacy of

1:31.9

former President Donald Trump?

1:34.5

Well, the immunity case is hopeless for the President of the United States.

1:38.5

Now, there's already been one opinion issued by the Court of Appeals for the District

1:42.1

of Columbia.

1:43.2

And they say it's one thing to be president,

1:45.1

it's another thing to be campaigning for president.

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