We've never confronted these questions before and so it's giving us a whole body of law on issues of immunity and privilege and what Article 3 of the 14th Amendment means.

Right, these are questions that just never came up before.

Hello and welcome to this President's Day edition of the 538 Politics Podcast, I'm Gailen Druk.

What are the legal limits of presidential behavior?

It's a question that is central to the

2024 election as former President Trump faces 91 criminal charges across four

different cases. There's another question of how presidents ought to behave, which is more up to the

voters than the courts, but the two aren't totally separate. Poll after poll has shown that

while Americans favor Trump over Biden today,

were Trump convicted of a felony,

they would prefer Biden.

So today, we're gonna review where Trump's legal liability

stands.

And just so we're all on the same page the criminal cases that we're talking

about are one the Manhattan case sometimes called the hush money case where

Trump is accused of falsifying business documents to cover up payments to Stormy Daniels.

The Federal Classified Documents case in which Trump is accused of mishandling sensitive government

documents and obstructing government efforts to recover them.

Three is the federal January 6th case where Trump is accused of attempting to overturn the

2020 election and stay in power despite losing.

And then lastly, four, the Georgia election case in which Trump is being tried for racketeering

and conspiracy to overturn Georgia's 2020 election results.

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