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Good morning, I'm Taylor Wilson and today is Friday, April 26th, 2024. This is the

excerpt. Today we have the latest from former President Donald Trump's legal schedule.

Plus protests continue on college campuses over the war in Gaza and can President Joe Biden win back young progressive voters.

It's been another busy week of legal dramas for former President Donald Trump.

To help us reset the stage on where things stand, I caught up with USA Today

Justice Department correspondent, Bart Janssen.

Bart, thanks for hopping on.

Thanks for having me.

So Bart, let's start by getting into the latest from Donald Trump's immunity case at the

Supreme Court.

Remind us what's at issue here and what stood out to you from oral arguments yesterday.

This is the case in Washington, D.C. where he faces obstruction and conspiracy charges over events basically leading up to the capital attack on January 6th and his efforts to allegedly steal the 2020 election.

The federal judge in that case was aiming to start the trial in March, but Trump argued that as a former president,

he should be immune from all the federal charges.

So the district court judge told him, no he can be tried the DC circuit court

said that he could be tried as a former president that there was no immunity

once he had left office.

And so the Supreme Court had arguments on Thursday basically to find for the first time

whether there should be immunity to former presidents after they leave office.

Trump's lawyer, John Sower, argues for basically absolute immunity that anything a president was doing in office was protected from

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