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The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit rejected Donald Trump ’s bid to evade prosecution for his alleged efforts to overturn the 2020 election.
Dahlia Lithwick , Mark Joseph Stern and Jeremy Stahl discuss the case in a bonus Amicus Plus episode.
The D.C. Circuit’s opinion, by contrast, takes pains to say: “This guy's not in office, so none of that matters at all.
Whatever implications there might be for the prosecution of a sitting president, whatever constitutional problems might arise under Article 2 , they are not present here.
Stern: It seems that with these two titans clashing, the losers are always going to be the members of that other branch.
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