Hi everyone it's for back in the east the nation's highest court in the

land today making news for the work it did not do the slew of decisions still pending on some of the biggest questions and issues facing our country,

things like abortion and guns to legal accountability for the January 6th insurrection and of course the question looming

over a presidential election a question with the power to make or break our

very democracy. Is Donald Trump immune from prosecution for crimes he committed while serving as

our president?

In other words, our American presidents now kings.

The federal election case brought by Special Counsel Jack Smith

has been on hold for more than six months now. That in itself a victory for

Trump, as he uses every lever of the justice system available to any criminal defendant to his

advantage with a single goal to avoid standing trial before the election in November,

at which point if he prevails and is elected, he can dismiss the felony counts he faces for attempting a coup.

As we have pointed out on this program before, every day that goes by without a decision one way or the

other from the Supreme Court is a victory for Trump. It's a day that Trump gets

closer to his goal. It's a glaring delay for many other reasons as well.

There's the fact that not one but two of the nine justices are facing calls for recusal.

One whose home flew a flag that was also flown by the January 6th insurrectionists at the

Capitol on his property. The other has a wife who was actively involved in urging

state legislatures to overturn Joe Biden's victory and

change the election result.

There's a facts at hand in the case itself, the legal questions.

As an op-ed in the New York Times points out,

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