Trump’s Trials and Tribulations: An Update from Courthouses Around the Country
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🗓️ 16 September 2023
⏱️ 86 minutes
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Summary
It's another episode of “Trump’s Trials and Tribulations,” our weekly video conversation with Lawfare editors and writers on the ongoing Trump trials. On Thursday afternoon, Lawfare Editor-in-Chief Benjamin Wittes sat down with Lawfare Senior Editor Roger Parloff and Lawfare Legal Fellows Saraphin Dhanani and Anna Bower. They talked about what's going on in Mar-a-Lago, what's going on in Fulton County, and what’s going on in Judge Tanya Chutkan’s courthouse in Washington. Will Judge Chutkan recuse herself? They also talked about Section 3 litigation under the 14th Amendment in Colorado, Minnesota, and elsewhere.
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| 0:25.6 | no bull and the aftermath. John Loro and his team, which are Trump's attorneys, are making |
| 0:36.9 | the point that Judge Chetkin from these comments is biased or at least there's an appearance |
| 0:42.3 | of bias that she believes Donald Trump was behind the events on January 6th and that he should |
| 0:48.6 | be charged accordingly. Now what's a little bit awkward about this brief, it's awkward |
| 0:55.1 | because it seems like defense counsel is implicating their own client. At no point does Judge |
| 1:00.5 | Chetkin explicitly say that she's referring to Donald Trump in the two previous cases and |
| 1:06.8 | it's it's a conclusion that John Loro and his team are drawing in this brief. I'm Benjamin |
| 1:13.9 | Wittes and this is the LawFair podcast September 16th, 2023. It's another week and it's another |
| 1:22.8 | episode of Trump's trials and tribulations, our weekly video conversation with LawFair |
| 1:31.2 | editors and writers on the ongoing Trump trials. On Thursday afternoon I sat down in the |
| 1:40.7 | virtual jungle studio with Saraphine Denani, Roger Parloff and in a hideous pink chair |
| 1:50.8 | and a bower, we talked about what's going on in Mar-a-Lago, we talked about what's going |
| 1:56.9 | on in Fulton County, we talked about what's going on in Judge Tanya Chetkin's courthouse |
| 2:03.3 | in Washington, is she going to recuse herself and we talked about section three litigation |
| 2:09.7 | under the 14th Amendment in Colorado, Minnesota and elsewhere. It's the LawFair podcast, Trump |
| 2:18.0 | trials and tribulations, an update from courthouses around the country. Anna, why don't you get us |
| 2:28.2 | started? There was a hearing in Fulton County court today, it was televised, tell us what happened. |
| 2:36.5 | Right, so there was a hearing in Fulton County Court today, it was emotions hearing Judge |
| 2:41.8 | McAfee who is the presiding judge over the case in state court in Fulton County, decided |
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