The Many Trials of Donald J. Trump
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🗓️ 23 December 2023
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Summary
This week, the Colorado Supreme Court determined in a pivotal decision that Donald J Trump should not appear on the ballot in the state's Republican primary. Meanwhile the high court is already involved in the possible briefing of another Trump case (about presidential immunity) and has agreed to docket another involving the obstruction of the vote certification on Jan 6 2021. And we haven’t even mentioned the Georgia case. Basically, Trump is going to have a very lawyer-y 2024. So where do all these cases sit right now? Slate’s Jeremy Stahl joins Amicus host Dahlia Lithwick to give us an update.
In this week’s Amicus Plus segment, Slate’s Mark Joseph Stern joins the show to talk about Rudy Giuliani’s defamation lawsuit and the $150 million he owes election workers. Mark and Dahlia also discuss the latest in ProPublica’s continued deep dive into the finances of Clarence Thomas.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi and welcome back to Amicus. This is Slate's podcast about the courts and the law and the Supreme Court and also about a legal subject area that will someday fill casebook after casebook, a little something we on the show like to call the Law of Trump. |
| 0:22.7 | I'm Dahlia Lithwick. I cover these things at Slate. And this week saw what feels like the almost inevitable |
| 0:29.6 | convergence of two exceedingly scary worlds. The first is the bizarro world of the conservative |
| 0:36.6 | supermajority at the Supreme Court. The other is the bizarro world of the conservative supermajority at the Supreme Court. |
| 0:39.3 | The other is the bizarre world of Donald Trump, who is just about to become a gold medallion-level frequent flyer on the high court's docket in the coming months. |
| 0:51.7 | Now, I often feel like our Law of Trump shows require whiteboards |
| 0:57.3 | and Venn diagrams and also just huge amounts of blood pressure medication. But here we are. |
| 1:03.7 | We're headed into Christmas week and we're starting to see a kind of crazy pancaking effect, |
| 1:09.6 | wherein the High Court is already involved in the possible |
| 1:12.9 | briefing on one case about presidential immunity, has agreed to docket another case involving |
| 1:18.8 | the obstruction of the vote certification on January 6th of 2021. Then this week, the Colorado |
| 1:25.2 | Supreme Court more or less sent a rocket to the high court with a |
| 1:29.1 | decision determining that Trump can be kept off the primary ballot in that state. |
| 1:35.0 | We've moved in several cases at truly lightning speeds from pretrial questions and motions to |
| 1:43.3 | appeals and from appeals on to SCOTUS, our own |
| 1:47.8 | Trump trial translator, Jeremy Stahl, is going to be here to update us this week on where all |
| 1:54.3 | the action is happening in the many, many Trump lawsuits and how all this is going to play out |
| 2:00.0 | next year at the highest court in the land. |
| 2:04.0 | Now, later on in the show, Slate Plus members are going to get to tune in to Mark Joseph Stern |
| 2:09.3 | talking with me about the latest eyebrow scorching piece from ProPublica came out this week about |
| 2:16.5 | how the conservative billionaires and |
| 2:19.4 | members of Congress conspired to buy Clarence and Ginny Thomas a lifestyle to which they |
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