Kate Shaw
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3,267 appearances
14 recordings
4 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard 15 Sep
Kate Shaw’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And especially happy that you're willing to do this from abroad.
You're in France.
I am deep in the woods of upstate New York, actually battling right now this insane haze from the Canadian wildfires.
It's pretty intense.
I know.
The news gods, though, stop for no one.
And I'm really happy to have you here for this conversation because it was very much not a sleepy summer week on the legal news front.
And so we have a couple of really big topics to cover.
And I want to start with last week's opinion out of a Miami federal court in the case.
I know you're very familiar with, involving Trump's request for $10 billion from the federal government, a lawsuit that he leveraged into a quote-unquote settlement that produced both the $1.776 billion slush fund and the grant of tax immunity.
So, Katie, I'm going to ask you to talk us through the opinion, but let me just remind everyone of a little bit of the background first.
So the suit was filed back in January.
It was ostensibly filed in Trump's personal capacity, and it grows out of this.
IRS contractors' disclosure of Trump's tax documents to some news outlets, including the New York Times, back in 2019 and 2020.
The contractor, to be clear, has already been sentenced to prison.
But this federal civil suit filed by Trump six years later, when he just happened to be back in the Oval Office, maintained that the IRS's failure to properly protect this confidential tax information injured him.
And to kind of redress that injury, he demanded once again of the IRS he controls $10 billion.
To be clear, the case should never have been in federal court.
Federal courts are only supposed to resolve cases and controversies between adverse parties, like parties that disagree about something.
And the oddity of Trump being on both sides of the V in this case is something that was not lost on Donald Trump himself.
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