The D.C. Circuit Rejects Trump's Presidential Immunity Claim
The Lawfare Podcast
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🗓️ 7 February 2024
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
On February 6, the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals rejected former President Donald Trump's appeal of his presidential immunity defense in the federal government's Jan. 6 case against him. Lawfare Editor-in-Chief Benjamin Wittes sat down with Lawfare Senior Editors Quinta Jurecic, Scott R. Anderson, and Roger Parloff, and Lawfare Executive Editor Natalie Orpett, in front of a live audience on YouTube and Riverside for a deep dive into the ruling, its meaning, and the court’s unanimity. They also discussed what comes next and what the Supreme Court might do in response.
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| 1:11.0 | There are some aspects of the opinion even beyond the procurement aspect that sort of speak to me to the way that this |
| 1:16.2 | is really crafted to allow the court to deny cert if it wants to So they point at multiple points to opinions by some of the |
| 1:27.6 | conservative justices and Trump v Vance the case involving whether or not Trump |
| 1:32.3 | could be subject to a criminal process from the |
| 1:35.0 | Manhattan DA while he was in office. |
| 1:37.8 | The opinion cites not only to Justice |
| 1:45.0 | Thomas' dissent in Vance, a line where he says that the president doesn't have |
| 1:50.0 | total immunity in all circumstances. |
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