Supreme Court Weighs Immunity In Trump's Jan 6 Case
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🗓️ 26 April 2024
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Summary
The Supreme Court heard oral arguments on Thursday in former President Donald Trump’s presidential immunity case. Trump’s lawyer tried to assert that there’s almost no situation under which a sitting president can face criminal charges, not even ordering a military coup or sharing nuclear secrets. It is a landmark case with big implications for both this year’s election as well as some of the other criminal cases Trump faces. Leah Litman, co-host of Crooked’s “Strict Scrutiny,” says Trump’s team is trying to normalize conduct that is inconsistent with democracy and the rule of law.
And in headlines: Pro-Palestinian protests spread to more college campuses, Manhattan’s DA vowed to retry Harvey Weinstein after the producer’s New York rape conviction was overturned, and Apple forecasted a bleak outlook for its Vision Pro headsets.
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| 0:00.0 | It's Friday, April 26th. I'm Josie Duffy Rice. |
| 0:04.3 | And I'm Priy Anka Ara Bindi, and this is What A Day, the show that wants to know, |
| 0:08.2 | what is the asylum you were raised in? |
| 0:10.8 | Yeah, Monica Lewinsky this week referenced that Taylor Swift lyric in a post with a picture of |
| 0:15.8 | the White House, which I'm pretty sure is the end for everybody else, give up, stop trying. |
| 0:21.3 | Yeah. |
| 0:22.3 | She beat you. This is the best Taylor Swift news I've heard in a long time. |
| 0:31.0 | On today's show, we'll look at why New York's highest court overturned |
| 0:34.0 | Harvey Weinstein's conviction on felony sex crime charges. |
| 0:37.0 | Plus, pro-Palestinian protests are spreading to more colleges and |
| 0:41.0 | prompting more administrators to crack down. |
| 0:43.0 | But first, on Thursday, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in former President |
| 0:47.4 | Donald Trump's presidential immunity case. |
| 0:50.0 | It is a landmark case with big implications for both this year's election, as well as some of the other criminal cases that Trump is facing. |
| 0:57.6 | Trump and his lawyers want the court to rule that he is immune to federal prosecution and to toss out the federal charges that he is facing for plotting to overturn |
| 1:04.9 | the 2020 election and Trump's lawyer John Sower really went for it during |
| 1:10.0 | arguments. Sower tried to assert that there is almost no situation under which a |
| 1:14.1 | sitting president can face criminal charges, not even ordering a military coup or |
| 1:18.8 | sharing nuclear secrets. This is just what the founders wanted. Absolutely. |
| 1:23.0 | Just exactly what they were going for. |
| 1:25.0 | They left the England monarchy and they were like, |
| 1:28.0 | let's just do another authoritarian thing. |
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