Has the Supreme Court given Trump the power to be a dictator?
The News Agents - USA
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🗓️ 2 July 2024
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
The majority decision by America's Supreme Court to grant Trump almost complete immunity from actions taken whilst in office make him - in the words of one dissenting justice, "a king above the law".
What are the implications of this ruling on Trump's future trials?
On his behaviour if he wins a second term?
And on America's trust in the highest court in the land?
Later, the Democrats find themselves, like their presidential candidate at times, frozen, in the aftermath of that TV debate. Will anyone close to Biden dare to suggest he pull out of the race? We hear from those who have come closest.
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| 0:00.0 | The Newsagents USA podcast is brought to you by HSBC UK, opening up a world of opportunity. |
| 0:09.2 | This is a global player original podcast. I know I will respect the limits of the presidential powers |
| 0:15.3 | I have for three and a half years, but any president, including Donald Trump, will now be free to ignore the law. |
| 0:24.6 | I concur with Justice Sotomayor's dissent today. |
| 0:27.6 | She hears what she said. |
| 0:28.6 | She said, in every use of official power, the president is now a king above the law. |
| 0:35.6 | With fear for our democracy, I dissent, end of quote. So should the American |
| 0:42.4 | people dissent. It seems fitting, doesn't it, that on the eve of American Independence Day, |
| 0:49.8 | 250 years after they got rid of our king, King George, the Supreme Court has now decided that, |
| 0:58.1 | well, maybe they do quite like having a monarch. It's just granted Donald Trump immunity |
| 1:05.5 | from pretty much all kinds of criminal prosecution for what he's done in office. |
| 1:11.5 | And this isn't just a backward-looking thing. |
| 1:15.3 | What if Donald Trump is re-elected in November and suddenly realizes they're in statute? |
| 1:21.8 | He does have king-like powers. |
| 1:25.1 | What then for America? |
| 1:27.2 | What then for the great experiment as it was described |
| 1:30.7 | when American democracy was born nearly 250 years ago? Welcome to Newsagents USA. |
| 1:43.2 | It's John. |
| 1:44.4 | It's Emily. |
| 1:45.1 | And if you read the judgment from the Supreme Court and from the majority opinion written by Justice John Roberts, who leads the Supreme Court, a conservative juror, it's almost like he says, I'm not a racist but. |
| 2:00.2 | He says, I'm not giving him total immunity, but. |
| 2:04.6 | And then you look at the butts and you think, actually, Donald Trump is being given enormous latitude. |
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