Trump’s Day at the Supreme Court, Remote and Live-Streamed
The Political Scene | The New Yorker
The New Yorker
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🗓️ 14 May 2020
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
This term, for the third time in recent U.S. history, the Court is considering just how far executive privilege extends. On Tuesday, the court heard two cases relating to President Trump’s financial records—one brought by the House of Representatives and another by the New York District Attorney Cyrus Vance. During the coronavirus pandemic, for the first time, the court is hearing oral arguments remotely, and the arguments are being live-streamed to the public. Jeffrey Toobin joins Dorothy Wickenden to discuss the cases against the President and what they could mean for Trump and for the country.
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| 1:11.6 | This is the political scene, a weekly conversation with New Yorker writers and guests about politics. |
| 1:18.0 | It's Thursday, May 14th. I'm Dorothy Wickenden, executive editor of The New Yorker. |
| 1:23.8 | This week, for the third time in recent U.S. history, the Supreme Court is considering whether |
| 1:29.7 | the president is above the law. On Tuesday, the court conducted oral arguments in a pair of |
| 1:36.0 | cases about efforts by three House committees and by New York prosecutors to obtain Trump's |
| 1:42.5 | tax returns and other financial documents. |
| 1:46.4 | Trump lost at every level of the judicial system in both cases, but his lawyer, Jay Sekulow, |
| 1:53.3 | who spoke for the president against the Manhattan DA, argued again that the president is |
| 1:58.7 | entitled to temporary presidential immunity from any investigations or prosecution. |
| 2:04.6 | Well, he's the president of the United States. |
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