Hello, Dahlia Lithwick here, your host on amicus, which is Slate's podcast about the courts,

the law, and the U.S. Supreme Court. And there's just too much legal news to chew on this week.

Friday, the Supreme Court will hear arguments in the TikTok ban case. Also Friday, Judge Juan Mershahn in Manhattan is due to

sentence President-elect Donald Trump. Trump has appealed that to the Supreme Court claiming

sweeping president-electual immunity. Meanwhile, Judge Aline Cannon in Florida has decided that jurisdictions are just imaginary,

and she has reached out and blocked the release of special counsel Jack Smith's final report

on the two investigations that yielded federal felony charges against Trump. Oh, and Justice Samuel

Alito, who is at the time of this taping, presumably weighing Trump's claim of immunity for when you're almost the president again, chatted it up with the president-elect over the phone earlier this week, over what is essentially a Trump transition HR matter.

Too much legal news.

And we were worried that some really important information was

in danger of getting lost in the melee. So we turned to the one and only Andrew Weissman to try to pick

over the law of Trump of it all in a special bonus episode for our Slate Plus listeners.

Andrew Weissman is co-host of the popular podcast,

prosecuting Donald Trump, just rechristened Maine Justice. He's a frequent legal analyst for NBC

and MSNBC. His memoir about the special counsel investigation where law ends inside the

Mueller investigation was a New York

Times bestseller. Here's a taste of our conversation hot off the presses.

There are literally so many prosecuting Donald Trump kind of dangling stories that are swirling in this little interregnum between

the certification of the election that just happened, the inauguration that's about to happen.

And I fear we're going to miss some of these dangling threads.

And that's why we wanted to pause to have this conversation.

Can we just start with future President Trump's appeal to the Supreme Court asking them to pause to have this conversation. Can we just start with future President Trump's appeal

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