Trump's Trials and Tribulations: What Is Going On in Fulton County?
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🗓️ 27 January 2024
⏱️ 67 minutes
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It's another episode of “Trump's Trials and Tribulations,” recorded on January 25 in front of a live audience on YouTube and Zoom. Lawfare Editor-in-Chief Benjamin Wittes, Lawfare Senior Editor Roger Parloff, and Lawfare Legal Fellow Anna Bower discussed all of the Section 3 litigation occuring across the country and Roger Parloff's recent article about whether the president is an officer of the United States. They talked about why we are still waiting on the D.C. Circuit to rule on Trump's presidential immunity claim and when the D.C. trial may actually start. They also talked about what is going on in Fulton County and Michael Roman's motion to disqualify District Attorney Fani Willis. And of course, they took audience questions from Lawfare Material Supporters on Zoom.
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| 0:30.0 | Killman and Blackman basically acknowledge it means Scalia we're saying the |
| 0:39.4 | president is an officer of the United States and their answer is they take the position that he got it wrong. |
| 0:46.1 | They write in a law review article, well even Homer nods, you know, he got it wrong. And they point instead to something he wrote 40 years earlier in 1974 when he was at the Justice Department, which cuts the other way. |
| 1:03.2 | I'm Benjamin Wittis, and this is the Law Fair Podcast January 27th, |
| 1:09.2 | 2024. |
| 1:10.8 | It's another episode of Trump's trials and tribulations recorded on January 25th in front of a live audience on YouTube and Zoom. |
| 1:21.0 | Joining me in the virtual jungle studio were the great Anna Bauer and Roger Parloff. |
| 1:28.6 | We discuss all the Section 3 litigation occurring around the country. |
| 1:33.1 | And we talked about Rogers' most recent article |
| 1:36.3 | about whether the President is or is not |
| 1:39.1 | an officer of the United States |
| 1:41.4 | and what Justice Scalia thought about the question. |
| 1:44.5 | We talked about why we are waiting for the DC circuit to rule on Trump's presidential |
| 1:50.0 | immunity claim when the DC trial may actually start. We talked about what's going on in Fulton |
| 1:57.5 | County, Michael Romans motion to disqualify District Attorney Fani Willis and of course we took audience questions |
| 2:06.3 | from our material supporters on Zoom to be able to submit questions to the panel in the future, you should become a material supporter of |
| 2:16.5 | lawfare at lawfare media.org slash support. It's the Law Fair Podcast January 27th, Trump's Trials and Tribulations. |
| 2:28.0 | What's going on in Fulton County? |
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