101 of Trump’s Presidential Immunity Case Before Supreme Court

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🗓️ 26 April 2024

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The nine Supreme Court justices have a major question before them. Is a current or former president immune from prosecution? Former President Donald Trump is facing prosecution for alleged efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election. Trump argues that his actions as president are protected from prosecution under presidential immunity. Trump lawyer John Sauer argued Thursday before the Supreme Court that unless a president is first impeached and convicted by the Senate, he is immune from prosecution, explains John Malcolm, senior legal fellow and vice president for the Institute for Constitutional Government at The Heritage Foundation. (Heritage founded The Daily Signal in 2014.) Now, Malcolm says, the justices have to answer three questions in order to make a decision in the Trump case: One, is there a blanket immunity for a president's official actions because he was not impeached and convicted by the Senate? Two, what is a private action and what is an official action? And three, if the court rejects John Sauer’s, absolute immunity argument, will there be any other kind of immunity that might attach to an official action? Malcolm joins this episode of “The Daily Signal Podcast” to discuss. Enjoy the show! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is the Daily Sleep Mill podcast for Friday, April 26th. I'm Virginia
0:09.7	Alan. The nine justices have a major question before them.
0:14.0	Is a current or former president immune from prosecution?
0:18.0	Trump is facing prosecution for his alleged efforts to overturn the 2020 election.
0:24.8	But he and his lawyers argue that his actions are protected and that he can't be prosecuted
0:30.2	because there is immunity for official acts done by a president.
0:34.2	Well now the Supreme Court will decide if a president is protected from
0:38.9	prosecution for those official acts or not.
0:41.8	Heritage Foundation Senior Legal Fellow and the Vice President for the Institute for Constitutional
0:46.9	Government at Heritage, John Malcolm, listen to the arguments before the Supreme Court
0:52.0	yesterday, and he's joining us on the
0:54.0	podcast today to discuss the biggest moments and takeaways from what he heard
0:58.6	from the justices their questions to the lawyers and the timeline ahead.
1:03.3	Stay tuned for our conversation after this.
1:10.0	Hi, I'm John Carlo Conoparo.
1:12.0	And I'm Zach Smith.
1:13.0	And we host SCODS 101.
1:15.6	It's a podcast where you'll get a breakdown of top cases
1:18.5	in the highest court in the land.
1:20.0	Hear from some of the greatest legal minds?
1:22.1	And of course, get a healthy dose of Supreme Court trivia.
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