Supreme Court Rules on Presidential Immunity Case
The Brian Lehrer Show
WNYC
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🗓️ 1 July 2024
⏱️ 19 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | It's the Brian Lairn Show and WNYC. Welcome back, everybody. I'm Bridget Bergen, filling in for Brian today. |
| 0:16.4 | As you heard earlier in the show on this final Supreme Court opinion day of the term. |
| 0:22.4 | The court weighed in on the question of former President Trump's immunity from prosecution |
| 0:26.9 | over his attempts to block the results of the 2020 election. |
| 0:30.3 | It was a six-three decision along ideological lines with Chief Justice Roberts, writing the majority opinion. |
| 0:38.1 | We're joined again by Aziz Huck, Professor of Law at the University of Chicago Law School, |
| 0:43.6 | an author of the forthcoming, The Rule of Law, a very short introduction. |
| 0:48.3 | Hello, Aziz, and welcome. |
| 0:49.7 | Thanks for being back on the Brian Laird Show. |
| 0:52.3 | Thanks for having me, Bridgett. |
| 0:54.2 | And listeners, as promised, we can take some calls on this decision. |
| 0:59.2 | Please call or text with your questions, your thoughts, your reactions to the ruling in this |
| 1:05.3 | immunity case or any of the other cases. |
| 1:08.0 | The number is 212-433 W-N-YC. |
| 1:12.6 | That's 212-433-9692. |
| 1:17.6 | And Azizhuk, the court sent this back down to the lower court |
| 1:22.6 | to reevaluate the charges against the former president |
| 1:25.6 | in light of their guidance on immunity. How much guidance |
| 1:29.0 | did they actually set? I think that they said several things that the district court in the |
| 1:39.6 | first instance will have to apply as new rules of constitutional law. |
| 1:46.0 | And the application of those rules is likely to involve a potentially lengthy |
| 1:53.8 | fight over evidence and the shape of the indictment, in which Trump's lawyers will be advantaged by several things |
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