Episode 25: Colorado Supreme Court Rules that Donald Trump is Barred from the Presidency.
Release Date: 12/20/2023
Episode 35: Part Two of Special Counsel Jack Smith's Report
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At midnight on January 13, 2025, after extensive litigation by Donald Trump in an attempt to prevent it, the US Department of Justice released Volume I of the report by Special Counsel Jack Smith, which describes the Special Counsel's work to investigate and prosecute Donald Trump for his attempts to overturn the 2020 presidential election. The report comprises six sections and an appendix. This episode is a audio reading of the Part II, "The Law". This section details exactly what laws Trump is alleged to have violated and their history, as well as how the Special Counsel's Office planned to...
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Episode 34: Part One of Special Counsel Jack Smith's Report
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At midnight on January 13, 2025, after extensive litigation by Donald Trump in an attempt to prevent it, the US Department of Justice released Volume I of the report by Special Counsel Jack Smith, which describes the Special Counsel's work to investigate and prosecute Donald Trump for his attempts to overturn the 2020 presidential election. The report comprises six sections and an appendix. This episode is a audio reading of Letter of Introduction Part I, "The Results of the Investigation" For the sake of clarity, footnotes are omitted and most legal citations are omitted or simplified....
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Episode 33: The US House Report on Matt Gaetz, Part 4
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In December 2024, the Committee on Ethics of the US House of Representatives released a report on its investigation of former Congressman Matt Gaetz, looking into allegation of sexual misconduct, drug use, statutory rape, and violations of House Rules, as well as other allegations. This is an audio presentation of that committee report. Because the full duration of the recording is around 90 mintutes, it has been broken up into four episodes, each one being a recording of one major section of the report. All four episodes were published together. This episode is a recording of Section V,...
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Episode 32: The US House Report on Matt Gaetz, Part 3
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In December 2024, the Committee on Ethics of the US House of Representatives released a report on its investigation of former Congressman Matt Gaetz, looking into allegation of sexual misconduct, drug use, statutory rape, and violations of House Rules, as well as other allegations. This is an audio presentation of that committee report. Because the full duration of the recording is around 90 mintutes, it has been broken up into four episodes, each one being a recording of one major section of the report. All four episodes were published together. This episode is a recording of Section...
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Episode 31: The US House Report on Matt Gaetz, Part 2
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In December 2024, the Committee on Ethics of the US House of Representatives released a report on its investigation of former Congressman Matt Gaetz, looking into allegation of sexual misconduct, drug use, statutory rape, and violations of House Rules, as well as other allegations. This is an audio presentation of that committee report. Because the full duration of the recording is around 90 mintutes, it has been broken up into four episodes, each one being a recording of one major section of the report. All four episodes were published together. This episode is a recording of Section...
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Episode 30: The US House Report on Matt Gaetz, Part 1
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In December 2024, the Committee on Ethics of the US House of Representatives released a report on its investigation of former Congressman Matt Gaetz, looking into allegation of sexual misconduct, drug use, statutory rape, and violations of House Rules, as well as other allegations. This is an audio presentation of that committee report. Because the full duration of the recording is around 90 mintutes, it has been broken up into four episodes, each one being a recording of one major section of the report. All four episodes were published together. This episode is a recording of Section I,...
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Episode 29: Jack Smith Responds to Trump Claims of Immunity from Criminal Prosecution
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On December 30, 2023, Special Counsel Jack Smith filed an opening brief with the DC Circuit Court of Appeals, responding to Donald Trump's appeal of his motion to dismiss being denied by the DC District Court. Trump's motion to dismiss asserted that he was immune from criminal prosecution for acts committed as President. Smith's briefing addresses the arguments Trump brought in both the original motion to dismiss and his appeal, and serves as an opening briefing to the oral arguments currently scheduled for January 9, 2024. This episode is an audio narration of the briefing. Please note that...
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Episode 28: Maine Secretary of State Bars Trump from 2024 Primary Ballot
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On December 28, 2023, the Maine Secretary of State, Shenna Bellows, issued a decision in a case of a challenge to Donald Trump's qualifications to hold the office of the President. Several challenges were mounted by different Maine voters. The Secretary of State determined that Donald Trump did engaeg in insurreciton under the 14th Amendment to the US Constitution, and therefore was not qualified to hold the office of the Presidency, and therefore that his statement that he was qualified was false, meaning Trump would be barred from the Maine Presidential primary for the 2024 election. This...
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Episode 27: Jack Smith Moves To Exclude Certain Evidence and Defenses from DC Trump Trial
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In late December 2023, Special Counsel Jack Smith filed a motion in the court handling the Washington, DC criminal case against Donald Trump for attempting to overthrow the 2020 election. The motion requests that the court prohibit certain defenses and evidence from being raised in the trial. Although at the time of this recording the trial is held in abeyance due to an ongoing motion to dismiss, this motion was filed in anticipation that the case would be proceeding to trial. This episode is an audio narration of the motion. Please note that most citations are omitted or simplified for the...
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Episode 26: Jack Smith Responds to Trump's Argument that the Supreme Court Should Delay Hearing His Immunity Claim
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In November 2023, in his ongoing criminal case in the District Court for the District of Columbia, Donald Trump filed a motion to dismiss the case based on an assertion of immunity for his acts as President. The judge assigned to the case, Tanya Chutkan, denied this motion. In early December 2023, Trump filed an "interlocutory appeal"- an appeal filed before final judgement of a case- to the DC Court of Appeals, arguing that the motion should have been granted. The effect of this appeal, by the rules of procedure for the Federal courts, is to halt most aspects of the ongoing criminal case in...
info_outlineIn September of 2023, a group of Republican and unaffiliated voters in Colorado filed a lawsuit against the Secretary of State of Colorado, asserting that the Secretary was not allowed to include Donald Trump's name on the presidential primary ballot for the 2024 election, because Trump had violated the 13th Amendment to the Constitution by engaging in an insurrection against the United States on January 6, and was therefore barred from holding the office of President.
At the conclusion of that case, District Court Judge Sarah B. Wallace ruled that Trump DID engage in insurrection, but that Section 3 of the 14th Amendment did not apply to the office of the President, and ordered the Secretary of State to place Trump on the ballot.
Upon appeal, the Supreme Court of the State of Colorado took up the case. On December 19, 2023 They issued a ruling that affirmed the district court's conclusion that Trump did engage in insurrection, but overturned the part of the ruling which concluded that the Presidency was not covered by Section 3 of the 14th Amendment, and therefore that Donald Trump was constitutionally inelegible to be President, ordering that Trump not be allowed on the ballot. The ruling was immediately stayed pending a likely appeal to the US Supreme Court.
This episode is an audio narration of the Colorado Supreme Court's decision. Please note that footnootes and most citations are simplified or omitted entirely to improve listenability.
The audio also does not include the three dissenting opinions which were published at the same time.
The original document including all citations, footnotes and the dissenting opinions is available at the following link:
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