Texas Abortion Case, Biden and Zelenskyy, Trump and SCOTUS

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🗓️ 12 December 2023

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Summary

A Texas woman has left the state, whose highest court ruled she does not meet the exception to the abortion ban, to have the procedure. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy meets President Biden in Washington as the pair makes a last-ditch plea to Congress for funding. And the Supreme Court has been asked to fast track a case that centers on whether former President Donald Trump should be shielded from criminal prosecution.

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0:00.0	The Supreme Court is asked to consider whether former President Donald Trump is protected from criminal prosecutions.
0:08.7	Could the frontrunner for the Republican presidential nomination face a jury before the 2024 election.
0:14.2	I'm Leila Faldel, that's Michelle Martin, and this is a first from NPR News.
0:21.6	The abortion ban in Texas is so restrictive that a woman was forced to leave the
0:25.8	state to have the procedure even though her fetus had a fatal condition.
0:29.8	What could the impact be on other legal challenges to the ban?
0:33.0	And President Biden meets his Ukrainian counterpart at the White House today.
0:37.0	You can count on Ukraine, and we hope just as much to be able to count on you.
0:44.0	Can they convince a reluctant Congress to fund the war effort?
0:47.0	Stay with us, we'll give you the news you need to start your day. The man appointed to lead the prosecution of former President Donald Trump for interfering in the last election has made an extraordinary
1:04.8	request.
1:05.8	Yeah, Special Counsel Jack Smith wants the Supreme Court to fast track the case in what looks
1:10.5	like an effort to make sure that Trump will face a jury before the 2024 election.
1:15.4	NPR Justice Correspondent Carrie Johnson has been following the story and she's with us now.
1:19.5	Good morning.
1:20.5	Good morning.
1:21.5	So Carrie, I take it the reason this is a story is that it's pretty
1:24.0	unusual for the Supreme Court to weigh in at this stage of a criminal case. What's
1:28.2	the prosecution's argument for moving so quickly? Special Counsel Jacksmith says this case is a matter of enormous public importance.
1:35.9	He says the question is fundamental to democracy.
1:39.5	Is a former president totally immune from criminal prosecution for acts committed when he was
1:43.8	president? The Supreme Court has never answered that question. All we know is that
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