What Trump’s Legal Victories Say About The Role Of The Courts In Our Democracy

Diane Rehm: On My Mind

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🗓️ 7 March 2024

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Those who see Donald Trump as a threat to democracy have taken solace in the cases piling up against him.

There were civil cases that carried massive financial penalties. There were four criminal cases whose trials were set to take place before the November election. And there was the question of the Fourteenth Amendment that could have barred trump from the ballot.

But two recent Supreme Court decisions have changed that.

“It’s going to be Biden versus Trump,” says Ian Millhiser, senior correspondent at Vox. “There is no magical anything that is going to stop us from having an election between Joe Biden and Donald Trump.”

Millhiser writes about the Supreme Court, the Constitution, and the decline of liberal democracy in the United States. He joins Diane on this episode of On My Mind to talk about Trump’s recent legal victories and why he argues “the courts were never going to save American democracy.”

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0:00.0	Support for Diane Reims on my mind comes from St.C. Shakespeare Theater Company, presenting The Lehman Trilogy,
0:06.3	a play that examines the double-edged sword of capitalism.
0:09.4	Now playing for a limited time at Harmon Hall.
0:12.4	Tickets at Shakespeare Theater.org.
0:14.0	I guess I am on my, the courts and Donald Trump.
0:26.0	Those who see Trump as a threat to democracy
0:30.3	had taken solace in the cases piling up against him.
0:34.4	There were several cases that carried massive monetary penalties.
0:39.8	There were four criminal cases and potential jail time.
0:45.0	And it was the question of the 14th Amendment
0:50.0	that could have burned Trump from the palace.
0:53.6	It's going to be Biden versus Trump.
0:55.8	There is no magical anything that's going to come in
0:59.7	and stop us from having an election between Joe Biden and Donald Trump.
1:04.0	Ian Milleriser, he's a senior correspondent at Fox, where he focuses on the Supreme Court,
1:12.1	the Constitution, and the decline in a liberal democracy in the U.S.
1:19.0	You join me to talk about Trump's recent legal victories and why he argues the courts are never going to save
1:28.1	America from Donald Trump.
1:31.7	Ian, you've written that the Supreme Court has dealt a body blow to opponents of Trump who thought the legal system would prevent his re-election.
1:46.8	Tell me why you say that.
1:50.1	So we had two decisions in rapid succession that were big victories for Donald Trump.
1:57.0	One was expected, one was the Trump v Anderson case, that was the case where the court essentially said it wasn't going to let the
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