Hi everyone it's 4 o'clock in New York. Americans woke up today in a nation where the highest court in the land is now out of the

closet as open to listening to a legal argument that America has a king and not an elected

president that one man in our nation of laws might just might

lawfully sit above the laws that apply to every single other American citizen. The United States Supreme Court, which has some

of the lowest approval ratings among the American public in its history, and which counts

three Trump appointees among its members yesterday decided to dignify a legal theory so contrary

to the American experiment that it actually rhymes with Trump's Access Hollywood moment of infamy, basically arguing that when you're president, they let you do it.

Agreeing to hear this case at all is the hinge moment, no matter what happens next. It alone opens the door to turning America

into a country where one person can commit crimes in his effort to overturn an election he loses, enlist others in that criminal

conspiracy and then instead of facing any criminal accountability, just run for

office again. And if victorious erase every last vestige of criminal liability,

criminal exposure, and accountability. It's also be crystal clear today about the logistical implications just of yesterday's news,

about that cannot be unrung.

As we've pointed out on this program

over and over and over again, the Trump strategy

is always the same one, and it's abundantly clear.

It is always to delay, delay, delay,

to run out the clock, slow down the entire legal process,

exploit a defendant's due process rights so that a trial in any of these cases is so delayed and push back that it happens after the election, most likely.

And at that point, Donald Trump has made clear that if he wins, he will use his power to free himself, to liberate

himself from what he publicly on the stump day after day smears as an unlawful and politically

motivated prosecution.

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