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#SCOTUS:The immunity defense before the DC Court of Appeals. #RichardAEpstein, Hoover Institution.

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John Batchelor

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🗓️ 13 January 2024

⏱️ 16 minutes

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#SCOTUS:The immunity defense before the DC Court of Appeals. #RichardAEpstein, Hoover Institution.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/09/us/politics/trump-immunity-claim-in-court.html

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Welcome Professor Richard Epstein.

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Senior fellow at the Hoover Institution,

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teaches law at NYU and the University of Chicago.

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In these last days days much news from the bench in this case

0:46.6

the extremely esteemed DC Court of Appeals, Federal Court, a three-judge panel hearing the appeal by attorneys for the former

0:58.1

President of the United States, Mr. Trump, that the that is not to go forward because the former president enjoys immunity while he was in

1:17.3

office on January 6th and also because it would be double jeopardy.

1:22.1

He was acquitted by the US Senate of similar charges

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of chicanery with regard January 6th. I welcome the professor to help me with these very thorny issues because as I understand

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that there is language in the Constitution that speaks generally to this area but not specifically because as of right now I read no president of the

1:48.5

United States has ever been charged with a crime while in office, perhaps after office as well.

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