Supreme Court Issues Update on Trump Ballot Case 2024-02-06 01:16

this election season is really shaping up to be like no other evidenced by the fact that among other things the latest numbers have just come out and they show that President Trump has spent nearly $50 million in legal fees just last year alone that particular number it comes from the recent filings that were made with the Federal Election Commission and they showed that quote former president Donald Trump used more than $47 million in campaign funds to cover legal expenses in the year 2023 two groups associated with President Trump save America and make America great again Inc paid off more than 350 different transactions to more than 50 law firms consultancies and individuals for legal services and Consulting furthermore if you go back one more year it shows that President Trump has spent more than $76 million over the last two years on attorneys now it's a little hard to find data on these types of things but I would imagine that with numbers like these president Trump might actually hold the record for the most money spent on legal fees by a single person in American history and so given the fact that the majority of the political donations are being spent on these different legal challenges well covering this year's election pretty much revolves or uncovering the developments in the different legal challenges that President Trump is currently facing and so in today's episode let's go through the major developments in three of these cases starting over in Colorado this upcoming Thursday which fore reference is February the 8th the US Supreme Court will be hearing oral arguments in Trump's ballot access case this was the case which came out of Colorado after the Colorado state supreme court claimed that Trump was ineligible to run for office as per section three of the 14th amendment that case was of course appealed by Trump's legal team to the US Supreme Court who then agreed to hear it on an expedited timetable and indeed the timetable really is expedited evidenced by the fact that for one if you look at the US Supreme Court's schedule the one that they maintain over on their website this upcoming Thursday not only are they scheduled to hear oral arguments in this particular case but also on that very same day they're also scheduled to issue their actual opin opinion on the matter and also secondly the US Supreme Court just agreed to give the Colorado Secretary of State a cool ten full minutes to argue why Trump should be blocked from the ballot quote Colorado Secretary of State Miss Jenna Griswald a Democrat and fierce Trump critic has filed multiple briefs with the US Supreme Court in a January 26 filing with the US Supreme Court Miss Griswald asked for enlargement and division of time for oral arguments at a hearing this Thursday so that she could have time to provide the court with an important perspective on Colorado's election laws the Supreme Court said in his decision that it would Grant Miss Griswald just 10 minutes to make her case for why according to her subsequent January 31st filing president Trump supposedly engaged in an Insurrection and so should be barred from appearing on Colorado's presidential ballot now in regards to what Miss Jenna grizwald might say during her 10 minutes well her opinion on President Trump is not really a state secret in fact during a recent interview over on CNN here's what she said quote regardless if Trump is on the ballot or not he is a danger to American democracy and then also she released released a separate statement from her own office saying the following quote Donald Trump engaged in Insurrection and was disqualified under the Constitution from the Colorado ballot the Colorado Supreme Court got it right and so she will now have a cool 10 full minutes to try and convince the US Supreme Court that President Trump should be prohibited from running for office again now aside from the 10 minutes that Miss Griswald was able to carve out for herself president Trump's legal team will be given 40 minutes to present their oral arguments while the other side will be given 30 minutes to present theirs and like most US Supreme Court cases this one will not be televised there will be no cameras present in the room however the oral arguments will be audio recorded and then the audio recordings should be made available very likely on that very same day over on the US Supreme Court website meaning in Practical terms that by Thursday of this week we can expect to not only have the transcripts from this trial but also an actual decision for the whole nation regarding the question of whether or not the 14th Amendment bars Trump from running for office so so consider marking your calendar for that again this upcoming Thursday February the 8th and now let's switch gears a bit and move on over to fton County Georgia in order to discuss the RICO case against President Trump and 18 of his associates although for the past month now the RICO charges against Trump and his associates they've taken a bit of a backseat to the allegations that Miss Fanny Willis who is the district attorney of fton County she was having an affair with the special prosecutor and was allegedly benefiting financially from the case against Trump if you actually want a deeper breakdown of those allegations we covered them in much greater depth in a prior episode which I'll throw a link to down in the description box below which I should mention is that same description box right below those like And subscribe buttons both of which I hope you take a quick moment to smash regardless last Friday which was February the 2nd Miss Fanny Willa submitted a 176 page Court filing wherein she finally answered questions regarding this alleged Affair and indeed this affair is no longer alleged because in her filings Miss Fanny Willis admitted to having a quote unquote personal relationship with Mr Wade the special prosecutor the man who she assigned to prosecute Trump in this trial quote in the 176 page filing Miss Willis affirms that she and special prosecutor Nathan Wade have had a personal relationship but she rejects the claim of a conflict of interest that would disqualify Miss Willis or Mr Wade from the case she argued that there is no basis for disqualification as she paid for Mr W's travel expenses as well she defended her statements about race and pushed to cancel the upcoming hearing likewise you had Mr Nathan Wade the special prosecutor in question as well as Miss f Willis's Paramore he also submitted a sworn statement saying that quote the personal relationship with Willis began in 2022 after he was hired as a special prosecutor on the 2020 election probe fny Willis received no Financial benefit from the relationship despite records released as part of Wade's divorce case showing he paid for airline flights with Fanny Willis on at least two occasions during the investigation Wade said in the sworn statement that personal travel expenses have been divided roughly equally between the two and so in short they both admitted to the affair but but they both claim that it did not Tain the case and that Miss fny Willis did not benefit financially from this Arrangement and it's that last part whether or not she benefited financially that's really going to be the sticking point here because Georgia state law it's fairly unequivocal regarding in-kind donations meaning that if your government office is paying the man that you're having an affair with and then that man turns around and pays for things like vacation travel for you your hotel stays your trips on cruise liners your meals and so on and you don't report it well that would be a clear violation of the law at least Tech technically now of course in his sworn statement Mr Nathan Way claims that the travel expenses have been divided roughly equally between the two of them now whether or not that's true will have to be determined by the judge and indeed it will on February the 15th which is not this Thursday but it's next Thursday there will be a televis hearing regarding this whole Affair although what's perhaps funny is that even though at this very moment over a dozen people have now been subpoena to testify during that particular hearing well miss Fanny Willis is fighting her best to get the whole thing canceled canell quote as a part of her 176 page Court filing Miss fny Willis argued that no evidentiary hearing should be held in response to the defendants salacious allegations in the meritless Motions to dismiss the high-profile election case now at this very moment the judge presiding over the RICO case has shown no indication of canceling the hearing and so barring any unforeseen circumstances it will still take place next Thursday February the 15th and in terms of who we can expect to testify quote Miss Willis Mr Wade and Mr Wade's current enfor former law Partners as well as eight employees of Miss Willis's team have been subpoena to testify at the 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President Trump at least at this very moment let's wait a week and a half to see what happens during that televised hearing which is again on February the 15th in the meantime though let's move on over to Washington DC and discuss the January 6th case against President Trump for your reference that's the case being being pushed forward by special prosecutor Jack Smith charging president Trump with plotting to overturn the 2020 election results and just two days ago Mr Jack Smith was handed some rather unfortunate news by the judge that's because despite the fact that he has been trying quite diligently to have this trial start right ahead of super Tuesday on March 4th the judge in the case has just thrown a wrench into that plan by placing an indefinite hold on the trial itself quote the trial date in the election interference case against former president Donald Trump was postponed the federal judge overseeing the case confirmed on Friday specifically in the court order here is what judge Tanya chuin wrote quote the court will set a new schedule if and when the Mandate is returned meaning that while President Trump and his legal team are appealing the issue to the Appel at level as well as the US Supreme Court asking whether or not a US president can actually stand trial for such a thing the trial itself is being put on an indefinite hold this means that the timetable that Jack Smith was shooting for meaning his plan for the trial to start one day before super Tuesday well now that's been thrown out the window and the reason that this really does matter so much is because this January 6 trial is truly not about the facts of the case I mean realistically with a Washington DC jury pool it's pretty much a given that President Trump will be found guilty almost no matter what and so instead this is a Race Against Time that's why Jack Smith and his team of federal prosecutors they've been so adamant about having this trial start on March the 4th one day before March 5th which is super Tuesday and all those primary elections doing it that way it will not only put a d Amper on Trump's ability to campaign in the primaries but also it'll hinder his ability to campaign for the general election and then furthermore if the trial gets delayed too long and if Trump happens to get reelected as president well that would mean that the entire thing has to be delayed by another four years because president Trump would not be able to stand trial as the sitting president of the United States these are the three reasons for why this decision by the federal judge to indefinitely put a pause on the trial means so much by putting an indefinite hold on the trial it's making it such that the case will almost definitely be pushed back until after the November elections now of course if Trump loses that election it won't really matter that much but if he wins the case will be delayed by another four years and then also there is the near total possibility that while he's in office probably at the tail end of his term president Trump would issue a pardon for himself now a president pardoning himself has never been done before in American history and whether it's constitutional or not is Up For Debate it's a real question but regardless the whole point is that now that the case has been put on an indefinite hold president Trump essentially needs to clinch a victory in the upcoming election in order to do something about these charges otherwise if he loses the 2024 election then the trial will start almost immediately and he'll be facing a DC jury pool and good luck with that if you'd like to read more about either this Washington DC case or any of the other two cases that we discussed in today's episode I'll throw all my research notes they'll be down in the description box below this video for you to prove at your own Leisure and then lastly if you enjoy today's content and you're just thinking to yourself man I love this facts matter content I just wish 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