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Trump on Trial is a podcast that covers the legal issues facing former President Donald Trump. Each week, we break down the latest news and developments in his ongoing trials and investigations, and we talk to experts to get their insights and analysis.We're committed to providing our listeners with accurate and up-to-date information, and we're not afraid to ask tough questions. We'll be taking a close look at all of the legal cases against Trump, including the Georgia investigation into his efforts to overturn the 2020 election, the New York lawsuit alleging financial fraud, and the various criminal investigations into his businesses and associates.We'll also be discussing the implications of Trump's legal troubles for his political future and for the future of the country. We're living in a time of unprecedented political polarization, and Trump's trials are sure to be a major news story for months to come.Trump on Trial is the essential podcast for anyone who wants to stay informed about the legal challenges facing Donald Trump. Subscribe today and never miss an episode!Copyright 2025 Inception Point Ai Politique et gouvernement Science-fiction Sciences politiques
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    • Trump's Legal Battles: Navigating the Post-Presidency Landscape

      Trump's Legal Battles: Navigating the Post-Presidency Landscape
      Jan 11 2026
      Listeners, let’s dive straight into where the courts stand right now on Donald Trump and the trials that still define his post‑presidency.

      Over the past few days, the center of gravity has shifted from the drama of live testimony to the slow grind of appeals courts and the Supreme Court, where Donald Trump is still fighting the fallout from his earlier criminal and civil cases. News outlets like the New York Times and CNN report that his legal team has been zeroing in on one overarching goal: pushing back or weakening the criminal convictions and keeping any remaining trials away from the spotlight as the election year calendar fills up.

      According to reporting from the Associated Press, Trump’s lawyers are continuing to press appeals in the New York hush‑money case, the one where a Manhattan jury previously convicted him on multiple felony counts related to falsifying business records tied to payments to Stormy Daniels. Those appeals hinge on claims that Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg stretched state law to criminalize conduct that, the defense insists, should have been treated as a federal election issue, not a state‑level fraud scheme. Legal analysts on NBC News say the appellate judges are now weighing not just the trial judge’s rulings on evidence and jury instructions, but the larger question of whether New York law was used in a way it was never intended to be.

      At the same time, the federal election‑interference case in Washington, led by Special Counsel Jack Smith, remains in a kind of limbo, dominated by higher‑court arguments over presidential immunity and the scope of official acts. The Washington Post reports that Trump’s team is still arguing that a former president cannot be criminally prosecuted for actions taken while in office that are even arguably official. That issue has already gone through one round in the D.C. Circuit, and commentators on Lawfare note that the next moves will determine whether a full retrial timetable is even realistic this year, or whether the case stays frozen while the Supreme Court is asked to step in again.

      Down in Georgia, in the Fulton County election‑subversion case brought by District Attorney Fani Willis, recent coverage from the Atlanta Journal‑Constitution describes a proceeding that is technically alive but politically and logistically bogged down. Multiple co‑defendants have launched appeals attacking the use of Georgia’s racketeering law and challenging Fani Willis herself after earlier questions about her conduct and conflicts. Courts are now wrestling with which defendants, including Donald Trump, can be tried together and whether a streamlined, smaller trial is the only way forward.

      Meanwhile, the fallout from the civil fraud case in New York, brought by Attorney General Letitia James over alleged inflation of asset values, has moved deeper into the appellate phase. Bloomberg reports that Trump’s lawyers are asking New York’s appellate courts to roll back the sweeping financial penalties and long bans on acting as an officer of a New York company, arguing that lenders were repaid in full and were not victims in any traditional sense. Business groups are watching closely, because the final word on that judgment will shape how aggressively state officials can police alleged corporate fraud by a former president or any other high‑profile executive.

      Threaded through all of this is a broader institutional question: how much of a former president’s behavior, political or financial, belongs in criminal court, and how much should be left to voters or Congress? Legal scholars quoted in the Wall Street Journal say that whatever happens in these Trump cases will set precedents that long outlast him, defining how prosecutors, grand juries, and judges treat the next national‑level scandal.

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    • Trump's Legal Battles Intensify as Supreme Court Prepares for High-Stakes Showdowns

      Trump's Legal Battles Intensify as Supreme Court Prepares for High-Stakes Showdowns
      Jan 9 2026
      I step into the studio with one question in mind: where do all of Donald Trump’s many legal battles actually stand right now, especially in the courts over the past few days?

      Let’s start with the arena that now overshadows almost everything else: the Supreme Court. Axios reports that the justices are gearing up for a series of blockbuster Trump cases this year, and some of the key moves have landed just in recent days and weeks. According to Axios, one of the biggest is Learning Resources v. Trump, the case that will decide whether Donald Trump can use a declared national emergency to impose sweeping tariffs without Congress. A recent Supreme Court docket entry shows that an emergency application tied to this dispute has been set for full argument in January, rather than decided quietly on the shadow docket, a sign the Court knows how massive the stakes are. A ruling against Trump could force the government to refund more than 100 billion dollars in tariffs and sharply limit his ability to drive economic policy through emergency powers alone, something economists at the Peterson Institute for International Economics have been closely watching.

      But that tariff fight is only one front. Axios also highlights Trump v. Barbara, the case over his executive order targeting birthright citizenship for children born in the United States to undocumented immigrants. Lower courts have split and issued injunctions, and now the Supreme Court is expected to decide whether a policy Trump calls essential to immigration enforcement can override more than a century of Fourteenth Amendment precedent.

      On the power front, Axios notes yet another Supreme Court showdown: Trump’s attempt to fire independent agency officials like Federal Reserve governor Lisa Cook and Federal Trade Commission officials Rebecca Slaughter and Alvaro Bedoya. The question is whether a president can unilaterally remove these figures for policy reasons, shredding a 90‑year tradition of insulation from raw politics. If Trump prevails here, the presidency’s reach over watchdogs and economic regulators could expand dramatically.

      Zoom out from the Supreme Court, and you see the lower courts straining under wave after wave of Trump‑era litigation. Just Security and Lawfare both maintain litigation trackers showing dozens of ongoing suits targeting Trump’s executive orders on everything from conditions of imprisonment to crackdowns on law firms and civil rights groups. These trackers reveal a pattern: plaintiffs argue that Trump’s actions routinely stretch or shatter constitutional limits, invoking the First Amendment, due process, equal protection, and separation of powers in case after case.

      Politico, looking at the criminal and enforcement landscape more broadly, describes what it calls a renaissance in the use and resistance of grand juries around Trump‑related prosecutions. Veteran prosecutors told Politico they had rarely seen grand juries push back on indictments the way some have when confronted with aggressive Trump‑aligned cases, and at least one federal judge has openly criticized what she called “apparent prosecutorial machinations” tied to these efforts. Even where Trump himself is not the defendant, his policies and his Justice Department’s tactics keep popping up in the courtroom record.

      Taken together, the last few days have not brought a single dramatic verdict with Donald Trump at the defense table, but they have tightened the vise around his presidency’s legal legacy. Supreme Court calendars, emergency applications, and fresh filings in federal courts all point to 2026 as the year when judges, not voters, will finally decide how far Trump can go on tariffs, immigration, and presidential power itself.

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    • Headline: Courtrooms Become Battlegrounds: Trump's Legal Wars Grip America's Future

      Headline: Courtrooms Become Battlegrounds: Trump's Legal Wars Grip America's Future
      Jan 7 2026
      I never thought I'd be glued to my screen watching courtrooms turn into battlegrounds for America's future, but here we are in early January 2026, and President Donald Trump's legal wars are heating up like never before. Just days ago, on Tuesday, January 6, SCOTUSblog reminded us of that historic New York Times Company v. Sullivan case from 1964, where the Supreme Court protected the press from libel suits—timely now as tensions simmer between Trump and media outlets. But that's history; the real fireworks are exploding right now.

      Picture this: the Supreme Court is gearing up for its January 12 argument session in Washington, D.C., with seven massive cases, several straight from Trump's playbook. Axios reports that top of the list is Trump v. Barbara, where the justices could rule any moment on his executive order slashing birthright citizenship. Trump wants to deny U.S. citizenship to kids of undocumented immigrants born here, challenging over a century of 14th Amendment precedent. Businesses like Costco, Revlon, Bumble Bee Foods, and Ray-Ban makers are suing over another bombshell—Trump's tariffs. In Learning v. Trump, they're fighting his national emergency declaration that slapped billions in duties on imports without Congress's okay. Trump boasted on Truth Social it's the "most case ever," but a loss could mean refunding over $100 billion. Then there's Trump v. Slaughter, pitting Trump against Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook and FTC's Alvaro Bedoya and Rebecca Slaughter, whom he fired for clashing with his policies. The court will decide if he can boot independent agency heads, smashing 90-year-old protections.

      Just Security's litigation tracker paints an even wilder picture of chaos in lower courts. In D.C.'s federal district court, Taylor v. Trump challenges Executive Order 14164, where Attorney General Pam Bondi shuffled death row inmates to ADX Florence supermax under Trump's public safety push—plaintiffs scream due process violations. The National Association of the Deaf sued Trump, Chief of Staff Susan Wiles, and Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt for axing ASL interpreters at White House briefings, claiming First and Fifth Amendment breaches. Law firms aren't safe either: Susman Godfrey out of Texas hit back at an executive order yanking their security clearances for opposing Trump; Perkins Coie, Jenner & Block, and WilmerHale face similar retaliation suits in D.D.C., alleging viewpoint discrimination. The American Bar Association sued over yanked grants from the Office on Violence Against Women, calling it payback for their stances. Even Rep. Eric Swalwell's in the mix with Swalwell v. Pute, targeting Trump's criminal arrest pushes.

      Politico says grand juries are Trump's new nightmare—refusing indictments left and right on his aggressive policies, from protester crackdowns to immigrant roundups. U.S. District Judge Sparkle Sooknanan blasted prosecutors for "rushed" cases with weak evidence. And in a wild international twist, CBS News covered ousted Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro and wife Cilia Flores arraigned Monday in Manhattan's federal courthouse before Judge Alvin Hellerstein. Whisked by helicopter from Brooklyn's Metropolitan Detention Center under heavy security, Maduro pled not guilty to narco-terrorism, cocaine smuggling, and weapons charges—facing life in prison—while insisting he's still Venezuela's president.

      The Supreme Court's emergency docket, like in 25A312, keeps deferring stays till January arguments, per their own filings. Lawfare's tracker logs non-stop national security suits against Trump's moves. It's a legal whirlwind, listeners, with the high court poised to reshape everything from guns in Wolford v. Lopez against Hawaii's private property ban, to conversion therapy fights in Miles v. Salazar.

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