Trump asks Supreme Court to continue to delay criminal trial
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🗓️ 13 February 2024
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Donald Trump asks the Supreme Court to continue to delay his federal criminal trial on charges he tried to overturn the 2020 election while he appeals an unfavorable immunity ruling. USA TODAY National Reporter Maureen Groppe tells us what this means for Trump's federal criminal trial.
Meanwhile, a Georgia judge will hold televised hearings to hash out allegations of misconduct by the prosecutor in another Trump criminal case.
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| 0:00.0 | Wunderry Plus subscribers can listen to USA Today's the excerpt ad free right now. |
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| 0:08.0 | Good morning, I'm Sarah Gannum filling in for Taylor Wilson. Today is Tuesday |
| 0:16.4 | February 13th 2024. This is the excerpt. |
| 0:22.6 | Today Donald Trump makes another attempt to delay his criminal trial on charges he tried |
| 0:28.0 | to overturn the 2020 election. |
| 0:30.6 | Plus, President Joe Biden is trying for a ceasefire in Gaza while sending AIDS to |
| 0:36.4 | apologize to the Arab American community in a key swing state and border politics ramping up yet again. |
| 0:47.0 | Former President Donald Trump asked the Supreme Court yesterday to continue to delay a trial into whether he tried to overturn the |
| 0:55.1 | 2020 election while he appeals a lower court's ruling that he's not immune from |
| 1:00.8 | prosecution. My colleague Dana Taylor spoke with USA Today reporter |
| 1:05.6 | Maureen Gropi about what this request might mean for Trump's federal criminal |
| 1:11.3 | trial. Maureen thanks for hopping on. |
| 1:13.7 | Happy to be here. |
| 1:14.8 | What was the argument that Trump's lawyers made in their filing yesterday? |
| 1:19.6 | They argued that this is a huge issue, this question of whether a president has absolute immunity from |
| 1:26.8 | prosecution. It's a big issue that the Supreme Court has never decided before in this type of circumstance and that they must do so because the lower court got it wrong a three judge panel on the DC Circuit Court of Appeals said that Trump did not have absolute immunity and can be charged |
| 1:46.0 | criminally. |
| 1:47.0 | If the Supreme Court declines to delay this trial, how quickly might this federal case move forward? |
| 1:53.2 | The earliest the trial could probably happen is in May, |
| 1:57.1 | but a lot of that depends on how quickly the Supreme Court |
| 2:01.3 | makes their decision. They can do this on a expedited schedule or |
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