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WSJ Opinion: Potomac Watch

The Supreme Court's Two Big Trump Appeals

WSJ Opinion: Potomac Watch

The Wall Street Journal

Society & Culture, News

42.7K Ratings

🗓️ 7 February 2024

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

Donald Trump is not immune from prosecution, a D.C. appeals court says, meaning his federal trial for trying to reverse the 2020 election might be back on the calendar. The ruling can be appealed to the Supreme Court, but do the Justices want to take it? Plus, the High Court will consider Colorado's decision to remove Trump from the ballot for "insurrection" under the 14th Amendment. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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From the opinion-pinn Wall Street Journal, this is Potomac Watch.

0:40.0

Donald Trump's first criminal trial could soon be back on the schedule after an appeals court rules he is not immune from prosecution.

0:49.0

Plus the Supreme Court is set to decide whether Colorado can kick Trump off the ballot as an insurrectionist.

0:55.2

Welcome, I'm Kyle Peterson with the Wall Street Journal.

0:58.5

We're joined today by my colleagues, columnist Kim Strassalal and Alicia Finley.

1:03.8

The judge in the first trial scheduled for Donald Trump, the case involving his attempts to

1:09.2

overturn the 2020 election had originally scheduled a trial date for March 4th, but that date has been pushed in part because of an appeal that Trump has made up to the DC Circuit Court of Appeals, arguing that the President is immune from prosecution, particularly

1:26.0

for official actions that he takes while in office.

1:30.2

Kim, this is an issue that has never been squarely decided by the Supreme Court a novel one and the

1:37.0

panel that ruled yesterday says as much in its decision saying that this is a novel question

1:42.0

but it answers in a sweeping fashion that the answer is no, according to this unanimous three-judge panel.

1:48.2

It's an unsigned opinion.

1:50.4

What do you make of this and the arguments that Trump is making the arguments that the panel makes in response?

1:56.0

Well, to sum up what the panel said, and I think this is the key line of it, it says up at the top of the opinion,

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