Examining Supreme Court Oral Arguments on Presidential Immunity and January 6 Cases

Episode 1028

Can a former President of the United States be prosecuted for trying to overturn a democratic election? The Supreme Court just spent two hours and forty minutes (!) hearing a case in which they were supposed to be reviewing this simple question and Donald Trump’s claims of total immunity. We review the last oral argument of this term and try to cut through the bad faith, irrelevance, and misdirection to understand what is actually happening here and where it all might be going.

• DC Trump indictment (8/1/23)

• Government’s brief in Trump v. U.S

• Trump’s brief in Trump v. U.S.

• CSPAN’S complete bookmarked SCOTUS oral arguments in Trump v. U.S. (4/25/24)

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