Biden's campaign sent out an email over the weekend chastising self-important

podcasters. I'm pretty sure that we're not the podcast they're talking

about. I don't think we're important enough.

Kaylan, you need to, you know, you got to have a little more self-confidence.

You know, you don't think you're important enough, you're very important.

Have that self-importance.

You go for it. Hello and welcome to the 538 Politics Podcast I'm Galen Druke.

Since Thursday the only story in American politics has been President Biden's performance in Thursday night's debate.

And what on earth Democrats are going to do about it?

That was until today, when the Supreme Court ruled

that American presidents have some legal immunity, absolute immunity

for core constitutional duties like appointing officials or granting pardons, presumed

immunity for official acts, which is at present a somewhat murky and potentially

very broad category, and then no immunity for unofficial acts.

As far as former President Trump's federal indictment for

behavior surrounding January 6th and attempts to overturn the 2020 election is

concerned, it now seems very unlikely that case will make it to trial before the election, perhaps completely

impossible, we'll get into it.

In fact, it's likely that lower courts are now going to have to determine what counts as an official versus unofficial act and

that any decision they come to may end up back at the Supreme Court.

So we're going to talk about it all today and here with us to do that is Professor of Law at

Cardoza Law and former federal prosecutor Jessica Roth.

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