Trump’s Immunity, Presidential Race, Government Funding

The Politics Guys

Michael Baranowski

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🗓️ 2 March 2024

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Mike, Jay, and University of Northern Iowa political scientist Justin Holmes open the episode with a discussion of the Supreme Court’s decision to hear Donald Trump’s ex-presidential immunity case. While they all agree it’s an important issue that needs to be ruled on by the Court, Mike and Justin are more concerned about the Court’s schedule than Jay is. Next, they consider the results of the Michigan primary elections and what they might suggest about the near-inevitable Biden-Trump rematch. Mike argues that the seemingly large number of ‘uncommitted’ Democratic votes isn’t as big of a deal as many have made it out to be. Justin makes the case that the results point to issues for both Biden and Trump. Jay thinks most Democratic and Republican voters will ‘come home’ in the end. They close with an examination of the recent short-term continuing resolutions to avert a government shutdown. Jay once again makes the point that Republicans almost always suffer politically when they shut down the government. Justin says government funding by continuing resolution is both common these days and not at all desirable, while Mike wonders about what this all says about Speaker Mike Johnson and his promise to return to a ‘normal’ budget process. The Politics Guys on Facebook | X Listener support helps make The Politics Guys possible. You can support us or change your level of support at patreon.com/politicsguys or politicsguys.com/support. On Venmo we’re @PoliticsGuys. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Atheists, agnostics, long-haired widows, short-haired widows, vandal, hooligans.
0:05.2	I love the government, hug the government, hug the government, love, the government, hug the government.
0:12.0	Welcome to the politics, guys, a place for bipartisan, rational, and civil debate on American politics and policy.
0:18.7	I'm Northern Kentucky University political scientist Michael
0:21.4	Barronowski. I'm joined today by my conservative counterpart, Cleveland area attorney and defender
0:27.3	of freedom, Jay Carson, as well as in a special three-person episode, University of Northern
0:34.2	Iowa political scientist Justin Holmes. And Jay and I are happy to have Justin
0:39.1	on the show for his perspective, which I should point out is his alone. And, you know, should
0:44.3	in no way be taken to represent that of the University of Northern Iowa, the great state of Iowa,
0:49.5	or I guess anyone other than, you know, Justin Holmes. Jay, I assume that that goes for you too.
0:56.2	You speak for yourself. And as for me, I am the Lorax. I speak for the trees. So there you go.
1:04.2	But anyway, Justin, great to have you here. And I'm looking forward to, well, talking with you and Jay about all the
1:11.9	stuff that we have to talk about today. So why don't we just get right to it? But before we do,
1:18.2	I want to make sure I thank Elijah, who's a new pretrial Patreon supporter. Thank you so much
1:24.7	for checking us out, so potentially supporting us. We appreciate that.
1:29.2	Okay. So I thought we'd start with the Supreme Court because the Supreme Court this week announced it would hear Donald Trump's appeal was denied by the D.C.
1:40.8	Circuit concerning his immunity from prosecution for his alleged efforts to
1:45.8	illegally influence the presidential election in 2020. Now, the unsigned order from the court
1:51.5	scheduled oral argument for the week of April 22nd, and it's expected that the court may not
1:57.4	actually issue a ruling until June. And even if they largely or entirely reject Trump's immunity claim, his trial would be unlikely
2:07.3	to start until maybe sometime around September at the earliest, which of course raises the
2:12.1	question of whether or not the Biden Justice Department would be willing to actually start a trial
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