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and you say, is it more like a State of the Union address or is it more like a campaign event?

And they look at the January 6th speech. or is it more like a campaign event?

And they look at the January 6th speech

and say, this is outside the outer perimeter.

And so this has enormous implications

for a lot of personal litigation against Donald Trump during the

period that he's president. A lot of people have withheld such litigation on the

theory that Nixon Fitzgerald was a very broad

grant of immunity which it is but here the DC circuit has articulated a limit of

that immunity and I think one that is likely to carry some weight

with the Supreme Court. I'm Natalie Orpete executive editor of Law Fair and

this is the Law Fair Podcast, December 5th, 2023.

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