The Federal Judiciary & Trump (with David Lat)

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🗓️ 7 March 2024

⏱️ 81 minutes

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David Lat is a lawyer-turned-writer, who publishes a weekly newsletter on Substack titled “Original Jurisdiction.” He joins Preet to discuss the federal judiciary, Trump’s many trials, and the free speech controversies roiling universities and law schools around the country. Plus, what would a Trump DOJ look like the second time around? How will SCOTUS’ decision to consider the presidential immunity issue affect Trump’s trial calendar? And can an AI chatbot testify in court? For show notes and a transcript of the episode head to: https://cafe.com/stay-tuned/david-lat-federal-judges-trump-trials-supreme-court-free-speech/ Have a question for Preet? Ask @PreetBharara on Threads, or Twitter with the hashtag #AskPreet. Email us at staytuned@cafe.com, or call 669-247-7338 to leave a voicemail. Stay Tuned with Preet is brought to you by CAFE and the Vox Media Podcast Network. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	From Cafe and the Vox Media Podcast Network, welcome to stay tuned.
0:05.0	I'm Preet Barara.
0:08.0	They wanted this to look easy and I think that's why they gave us a 20 page opinion. The opinion is sort of
0:14.6	nothing to see here please move on kind of opinion. If they had given us a hundred
0:19.2	page opinion with concurrences and dissents that might have sent a different message so while I was
0:24.2	disappointed at the thinness of the opinion I understand why they did it given
0:28.4	their objectives.
0:30.8	That's lawyer turned writer David Latt.
0:35.0	His sub-stack newsletter, original jurisdiction, covers legal news, from politics to big law.
0:41.0	And his companion podcast features interviews with prominent legal scholars and practitioners.
0:47.1	In the early 2000s, while working as a prosecutor at the U.S. Attorney's Office in New Jersey,
0:51.4	Latt began publishing an anonymous gossip blog about the federal
0:54.4	judiciary called Underneath Their Robes. In 2005, he revealed himself as the blog's
1:00.9	author in a New Yorker profile and left the law to pursue writing full-time.
1:06.8	He then founded above the law, now one of the nation's largest legal news platforms.
1:11.9	Latt is also a successful novelist. His fiction book, Supreme Ambitions, was published in 2014.
1:18.0	In April 2020, David Latt joined me as a guest on stay tuned. We spoke about his harrowing experience as one of New York's first COVID patients.
1:27.7	This week he joins me to talk about the federal judiciary, Trump's trials,
1:31.9	and the free speech controversies unfolding at law schools across the country.
1:36.4	That's coming up.
1:37.4	Stay tuned. Support for this show comes from Krakan.
1:47.0	Krypto is like the financial system but different.
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