As a follow-up to OLLI courses offered in spring 2024, this lecture will take a mid-summer look at the four criminal cases brought against former President Trump. We will review the status of the cases, ongoing developments, and the possible future course of these cases as the 2024 presidential campaign heats up. One topic of our discussion likely will be how the U.S. Supreme Court chooses to resolve the presidential immunity defense raised by former President Trump (the Supreme Court should have announced their decision on this issue by the time of our discussion).
Tom Allen, JD, is a lawyer who practiced with a large global law firm for over 40 years before his retirement. Early in his career, Allen was a trial attorney with the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Justice Department. Allen obtained a BA from the University of Michigan and a JD from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.