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Retire Universal Injunctions

Advisory Opinions

The Dispatch

News, Government, Politics

4.7 • 4K Ratings

🗓️ 18 April 2024

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

There’s not much worth discussing yet in Donald Trump’s criminal trial in New York, so Sarah and David focus on the Supreme Court and a case on Idaho’s law restricting gender-transition treatment for minors. Plus: Murmurs about Clarence Thomas’ brief absence. The Agenda: —Election law crimes, tax crimes, and falsification of business records —Challenges of broad injunctions —Idaho’s Vulnerable Child Protection Act —SCOTUS exhausted with emergency docket applications —Justices call to retire universal injunctions —January 6 arguments before SCOTUS —SCOTUS declines to intervene in a police lawsuit against a Black Lives Matter activist —Obstructions in official proceedings —Legal issues in the Iran-Israel conflict Show Notes: —Labrador v. Poe —Counterman v. Colorado —18 U.S. Code § 1512 - Tampering with a witness, victim, or an informant Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

You ready?

0:02.0

I was born ready. Welcome to Advisory opinions. I'm serious for this. I'm serious for that's David French. It's an action pack pod today. So David, no real updates to give folks on the Trump case yet, right?

0:29.0

No, no, no real updates. I mean, we know a little bit more,

0:32.6

but this has been for a while about the legal theory now,

0:35.5

the prosecution, because remember,

0:39.3

I'm saying remember to something we talked about a year ago,

0:42.4

but if people don't remember the discussion a year ago,

0:46.0

basically the way it works is there's a misdemeanor

0:50.0

if you falsify business records.

0:52.0

A misdemeanor with a two-year statute of limitations

0:54.9

that would have probably run

0:56.6

if you're going to prosecute Trump only on the misdemeanor.

0:59.3

However, the falsification of business records

1:01.3

can become a felony if the falsification is in connection with

1:05.7

furthering another crime or concealing another crime.

1:09.2

So everyone was asking when the case was filed, what is the other crime?

1:15.1

What's the other crime that Trump was trying to conceal or carry out

1:20.4

through the falsification of business records.

1:23.0

And now we know what we suspected.

1:26.0

It's mainly election campaign finance,

1:30.0

allegations of election campaign finance crime, state property, I mean, I'm sorry,

1:35.1

state tax crimes. But it's an interesting case, Sarah, because the only thing

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