Trump v. United States
The Take
Al Jazeera
4.7 • 748 Ratings
🗓️ 26 April 2024
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
The US Supreme Court is hearing opening arguments on whether or not Donald Trump has presidential immunity in two of his current criminal cases. But what does that mean for future presidents and this year’s US elections?
In this episode:
- Ciara Torres-Spelliscy, (@ProfCiara), Professor at Stetson University College of Law
Episode credits:
This episode was produced by Chloe K. Li and Fahrinisa Campana with Kevin Hirten, in for our host Malika Bilal. Zaina Badr fact-checked this episode.
Our sound designer is Alex Roldan. Our lead of audience development and engagement is Aya Elmileik and Adam Abou-Gad is our engagement producer.
Alexandra Locke is The Take’s executive producer. Ney Alvarez is Al Jazeera's head of audio.
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| 0:00.0 | Al Jazeera Podcasts. |
| 0:07.0 | Today, Trump versus the United States. |
| 0:15.9 | The U.S. Supreme Court is hearing arguments on his bid for presidential immunity. |
| 0:21.4 | This is a huge question of constitutional law. Are future presidents, or in this case a past |
| 0:29.1 | president, immune for official acts during their presidency? |
| 0:36.7 | I'm Kevin Horton, and this is the take. |
| 0:46.7 | The question before the justices today is whether Donald Trump should have absolute |
| 0:51.5 | immunity from criminal prosecution for acts committed while he was president. |
| 0:56.7 | The Supreme Court has agreed to decide if Donald Trump has immunity from prosecution on election interference charges. |
| 1:05.3 | The president has to have immunity. This has nothing to do with me. |
| 1:09.0 | This has to do with a president in the future for a hundred |
| 1:12.4 | years from now. If you don't have immunity, you're not going to do anything. |
| 1:18.4 | Now, legally, it's uncharted territory simply because we've never had a former president like |
| 1:24.6 | Donald Trump before. For the first time ever, a former president of the United States has been indicted and will face criminal charges. |
| 1:33.3 | A grand jury... |
| 1:33.9 | Since he left office, Donald Trump has been in and out of court. |
| 1:36.7 | ...related to hush money payments to former porn star Stormy Daniels. |
| 1:40.7 | Trump is set to appear inside a Florida courtroom. |
| 1:43.3 | As a matter of fact, we think he just arrived a few moments ago in the federal criminal |
| 1:47.3 | case over his handling of classified documents. |
| 1:49.8 | A U.S. appeals court ruled that Donald Trump must face civil lawsuits over his role in the |
| 1:55.1 | January 6th attack on the U.S. Capitol by his supporters. |
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