PREVIEW: #SCOTUS: #IMMUNITY: Excerpt from a conversation with colleagues Andrew cMCarthy of NRO and Thaddeus McCotter of American Greatness re the question of a POTUS in office deserving immunity in a criminal matter now to be judged by SCOTUS -- and form

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PREVIEW: #SCOTUS: #IMMUNITY: Excerpt from a conversation with colleagues Andrew cMCarthy of NRO and Thaddeus McCotter of American Greatness re the question of a POTUS in office deserving immunity in a criminal matter now to be judged by SCOTUS -- and former President Trump and the Smith prosecution for January 6 must await the decision. More of this later.

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0:00.0	Book your ticket to happiness with Sun Express Airlines. This is John Bachelor.
0:19.0	This is John Bachelor.
0:20.0	Conversation with my colleagues Andrew McCarthy of National Review online and that is
0:24.3	McCatter of American greatness about the decision by the Supreme Court to address the immunity
0:30.2	question with regard to former President Trump, did he enjoy immunity during the events of January 6th?
0:38.0	And he answers very carefully and then lays out a timeline for the Supreme Court for other decisions before the
0:44.0	Supreme Court. Immunity. Well I'm surprised John that they took the case because I
0:50.7	thought that they might leave the DC circuit's ruling in place, which is I thought was a fair interpretation of the law,
1:00.7	was a very well-crafted decision, unanimous decision of the
1:17.7	decision unanimous decision of the three-judge DC circuit panel and my you know to go to go to what that it is asking about a second ago my my default position with this stuff is that the Supreme Court doesn't want to do politics and would rather not wade into cases that in are fraught with the politics of the 2024 election.
1:26.6	So it seemed to me that this was a case that they could probably duck if they just decided
1:30.4	to leave the DC circuit decision. But I think it's appropriate for them to take the case and they
1:38.6	decided to take the case. So I'm mildly surprised by that. I'm more surprised about the reaction to it, particularly given,
1:49.3	you know, the visceral reaction suggesting on the basis of no evidence that they took this case in order to help Trump
1:56.9	when as you just pointed out they've taken it on an expedited basis if they wanted to help
2:02.3	Trump they would have taken the case not on an
2:05.0	emergency petition but in normal course, which would mean yes we'll take the case,
2:11.2	we'll hear argument sometime in the term that starts next October,
2:16.2	and you wouldn't have a decision until next year.
2:19.2	If they were really trying to help Trump, they could easily have done that and they didn't.
2:23.8	So they've taken the case on an expedited basis, they're going to hear argument, I think the
2:28.0	week of April 22nd and we should get a decision by the end of June.
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