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🗓️ 8 July 2024
⏱️ 35 minutes
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0:00.0 | Welcome to a special edition of Legal AF. We are honored and thrilled to have Judge J Michael Lutig back with us, |
0:10.0 | icon, Lion of the Constitution, defender of the Constitution, and who has some strong opinions |
0:17.6 | that we need to hear from, our audience needs to hear from, about Trump versus the United States and the immunity decision, |
0:23.8 | the 63 majority of the Supreme Court, |
0:27.1 | written and penned by Chief Justice Roberts just issued. |
0:31.4 | What does it mean when we talk about core presidential duties expressed in the Constitution |
0:38.0 | for which a president named Trump or otherwise has absolute immunity. What are the contours of that? What is official duties that are given |
0:50.1 | a presumption of immunity and how would the prosecutors ever overcome the presumption to show that there's no danger of intrusion on the executive branch. |
1:01.0 | And then what in this case or in future cases would constitute |
1:05.9 | unofficial conduct which is the part that's prosecutable under the ruling of |
1:11.4 | the United States Supreme Court. However, they've also built in |
1:15.2 | certain limitations and certain hurdles for the prosecution. They can never |
1:20.4 | inquire as to the motive of the |
1:23.1 | occupant of the White House at the time |
1:25.4 | in any type of evidence or documents or testimony. |
1:29.2 | And there's also evidential hurdles as well, where you can never put on now, based on this ruling, |
1:37.0 | any evidence of official conduct to try to prove that what is outside the outer boundaries is unofficial conduct. |
1:44.8 | So that is what we are now left with. |
1:46.8 | And there's various scenarios that have been played out on social media, media, and even among our audience judge Lutick about well does this mean as |
1:56.2 | posited in a way by the dissent led by justice so to my or that the seal 6 scenario, which gave pause to the DC Circuit Court, is possible. |
2:08.1 | Could somebody who is the president or outgoing president of the United States as commander in chief or otherwise give a command for a drone strike against the other party or its leader. |
2:21.6 | Could he sell pardons as part of his core constitutional power? |
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