It Is Impossible to Be Too Alarmed About the Immunity Decision

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🗓️ 5 July 2024

⏱️ 58 minutes

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This decision is absolutely outrageous. It is in the hall of fame of worst Supreme Court Decisions in our nation's history. It's that bad. As such, we recorded a ton, there is yelling involved. And cursing. And we even did an extra length patron episode to answer some of your questions.

Neil Gorsuch recently promised that the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision on presidential immunity would be one “for the ages,” and Chief Justice John Roberts has certainly delivered here. In this special episode recorded on the 248th anniversary of history’s most famous rejection of monarchical tyranny, we review the historical context and (alleged) legal foundations of Trump v. U.S. (July 1, 2024). How much power has the Supreme Court just given future presidents? Are the unusually stark warnings of the authoritarian consequences of this decision from the liberal dissenters as “disproportionate” as Roberts claims, or are they exactly proportionate to the broad protections against investigation and prosecution which it seems to provide?

Matt shares his perspective from nearly two decades of working with people seeking asylum from failed (and failing) democracies, and we close with our hopes for a better American future.

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0:00.0	I hate the Supreme Court! the Supreme Court has roundly rejected prior restraint.
0:23.0	This is not a First Amendment thing.
0:26.0	I printed out a sign especially for him using his favorite font, Garamand.
0:31.0	Who has a favorite font? I read on the internet that it's not against the law for me to go to the bathroom while the
0:37.0	Fest and seatbelt sign is on, so...
0:39.0	Seatbelt sign is on.
0:40.0	But is it against the law though. Hello and welcome to opening arguments.
0:47.0	This is episode one thousand forty eight.
0:49.0	I'm your host Thomas Smith.
0:50.0	That over there is real life attorney,
0:52.8	haver of a useless job, Matt Cameron.
0:56.3	Is anything they taught you worth anything anymore?
1:00.4	I don't know, man, I'm sorry.
1:01.8	I'm not a federal prosecutor trying to go after the president that would be
1:04.0	useful useless job at this point but yeah well I am sitting within shouting distance
1:08.0	of where the Declaration of Independence was read for the first time to New England and
1:12.0	thinking a lot about the 4th of July today.
1:15.2	It's the strangest 4th of July I've had in a while.
1:17.4	Today we're recording.
1:18.4	Yeah, I think my 4th of July is about what it is now. It's something I completely forgot existed until all of a sudden
1:25.5	I have to record and my kids are home for some reason yeah and so it's annoying and an inconvenience and then
1:31.1	a bunch of people are going to blow a bunch of stuff up not only tonight but last night and probably for three nights after
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