Will the Supreme Court Grant Trump Immunity?
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🗓️ 26 April 2024
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
Tommy, guest host Alyssa Mastromonaco, and Strict Scrutiny’s Leah Litman break down the Trump team’s immunity argument at the Supreme Court, the latest with Idaho’s abortion ban, and why a New York court overturned Harvey Weinstein’s conviction. Plus, the Biden administration makes big moves to help out consumers and workers, and the TikTok ban moves forward. Then, Alyssa shares some behind-the-scenes stories about how picking a VP really works.
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| 0:00.0 | The Welcome to Pod Save America, I'm Tommy Vittor. And I'm Alyssa Master Monaco. |
| 0:23.9 | Alyssa, it's so great to have you. |
| 0:26.1 | We have a packed show today, my friend. |
| 0:28.2 | Donald Trump, he's just starring in all kinds of legal dramas all over the world. |
| 0:32.3 | He is, you know, the Secret Service is contemplating what to do |
| 0:36.1 | if he spends time behind bars. |
| 0:37.9 | You have the Biden administration taking big moves |
| 0:40.2 | to help out consumers and workers. |
| 0:41.8 | We might be banning Tik-Tok. |
| 0:43.4 | I don't know, the courts are going to have something to say about that, too. |
| 0:45.5 | And state lawmakers in Arizona finally |
| 0:47.8 | act to repeal their states' 1864 abortion ban. |
| 0:50.9 | That feels like a very long time ago everybody. But first, we're |
| 0:54.2 | recording this on Thursday afternoon, East Coast time and it was a day of |
| 0:58.1 | truly dizzying legal news. In Washington, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments about whether Donald Trump should be immune from criminal prosecution for official acts and what constitutes official acts in the first place. |
| 1:09.2 | This is very important for the January 6th case. |
| 1:12.3 | Trump himself was stuck in a court in Manhattan sitting |
| 1:14.9 | through more testimony from former National Inquirer publisher David Becker about |
| 1:18.9 | the catch-and-kill scheme more on that later and for good measure New York's highest court overturned |
| 1:23.8 | Harvey Weinstein's conviction and that was just today. On Wednesday the Supreme |
| 1:28.4 | Court heard arguments about the Biden administration's challenge to Idaho's |
| 1:31.8 | ultra strict abortion law and how it interacts |
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