Trump Is So Immune

Political Gabfest

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Politics, Government, News

4.5 • 8.3K Ratings

🗓️ 4 July 2024

⏱️ 64 minutes

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This week, Emily Bazelon, John Dickerson, and David Plotz discuss the Supreme Court decisions on presidential immunity in Trump v. United States and the administrative state in Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo as well as the future of Joe Biden’s nomination to be re-elected president. Here are some notes and references from this week’s show: Supreme Court of the United States: Opinions of the Court – 2023, including Trump v. United States, Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo, Corner Post, Inc. v. Board of Governors, and SEC v. Jarkesy Matt Gluck, Hyemin Han, and Katherine Pompilio for Lawfare: The Supreme Court’s Presidential Immunity Decision Perry Stein for The Washington Post: Justice Sotomayor dissent: ‘The President is now a king above the law’ Gary J. Schmitt and Joseph M. Bessette for the American Enterprise Institute: The Hamilton-Madison Split over Executive Power Dan Pfeiffer for The Message Box: Why the Dem Panic over the Debate is Getting Worse ‘Will Rogers Today’: Will Rogers on Politics Tim Miller for The Bulwark: Dear Dems: The Gaslighting Isn’t Helping Matters Amy Howe for SCOTUSblog: Supreme Court strikes down Chevron, curtailing power of federal agencies and Mark Walsh: Consider the wild gray squirrel, Kagan rebukes her colleagues as court overrules Chevron Mark Sherman for AP: The Supreme Court rules for a North Dakota truck stop in a new blow to federal regulators How to Save a Country from The New Republic: The Administrative State Is Under Attack Congressional Research Service: The Major Questions Doctrine Eric Berger for Dorf on Law: Is Loper Bright a Big Deal? and Michael C. Dorf: Could Congress Reinstate Chevron? Tierney Sneed, Jeanne Sahadi, Tami Luhby, Brian Fung, Ella Nilsen, Jen Christensen, and Katie Lobosco for CNN: How the Supreme Court’s blockbuster ‘Chevron’ ruling puts countless regulations in jeopardy Here are this week’s chatters: Emily: Paul Sabin of Yale University and City of New Haven: East Rock park John: Dave McMenamin for ESPN: Lakers pick Bronny James in NBA draft; LeBron ‘emotional’ David: City Cast DC and Ross Andersen for The Atlantic: The Search for America’s Atlantis Listener chatter from Jen in Denver, Colorado: Brandy Zadrozny and Jon Schuppe for NBC News: Who tried to steal Graceland? For this week’s Slate Plus bonus segment, David, John, and Emily talk about the joys of summer. See Merry Maids: 15 Fun Things to Make the Most of Summer 2024; NBC: Olympics Paris 2024; and epicurious: Summer. See also Produce bluebook: Nectarine Market Summary and Lemonada Media: Julia Gets Wise with Patti Smith. In the latest Gabfest Reads, David talks with Sierra Greer about her new book, Annie Bot: A Novel. And Gabfest Reads now has its own site! Email your chatters, questions, and comments to [email protected]. (Messages may be referenced by name unless the writer stipulates otherwise.) Podcast production by Cheyna Roth Research by Julie Huygen Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to Slate Political Cabfest. July 4th, 2024, the Trump is so immune edition. I'm David Platts of City Cast in Washington, D.C. Happy Independence Day.
0:27.0	I'm joined by John, the percent of CBS's daily report from New York City.
0:33.0	Hello, John.
0:34.6	Hello.
0:36.5	Wow, that was a weird hello.
0:39.6	That was like from the end of a tunnel.
0:41.9	That must be how John is feel. It's exactly right.
0:45.0	Never at the end of the tunnel always or only the bright light at the end of the
0:48.4	tunnel. Emily Bazlan of Yale University Law School and New York Times
0:52.2	magazine,
0:52.7	Hello Emily.
0:53.6	Hey David, hey John.
0:54.7	I hope your fireworks explode in your hot dogs
0:57.3	sizzle tonight and not vice versa.
1:00.0	That would be terrible.
1:00.8	No, I feel like I could pull that off somehow.
1:03.4	My hot dogs could explode.
1:04.9	I don't eat a hot dog.
1:05.9	Continue on.
1:06.9	This week on the Gapfest,
1:11.1	uh, our light start at Belize a very dark episode. The Supreme Court restored
1:16.7	the monarchy this week. That's great on July 4th. We will discuss their ruling in the
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