#SCOTUS: Not any sort of trial before the Election. Richard Epstein, Hoover Institution
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#SCOTUS: Not any sort of trial before the Election. Richard Epstein, Hoover Institution
https://www.wsj.com/articles/trump-v-u-s-supreme-court-presidential-immunity-official-acts-john-roberts-january-6-c4d5eddc?mod=editorials_article_pos1
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| 0:00.0 | This is a |
| 0:05.2 | This is CBS I on the world with John Bachelor. |
| 0:09.7 | Here's John Bachelor |
| 0:12.0 | The Washington Post. |
| 0:14.0 | Trump has some immunity. |
| 0:16.0 | Justices rule complicating Jan's sixth case, |
| 0:20.0 | quoting from the Chief Justice who wrote the majority opinion in six to three. |
| 0:24.4 | A former president is entitled to absolute immunity from criminal prosecution |
| 0:30.0 | for actions within his quote conclusive and preclusive constitutional authority. |
| 0:37.0 | The Chief Justice goes on to say there is no immunity for unofficial acts. |
| 0:42.0 | I welcome Professor Richard Epstein of the |
| 0:44.2 | Hoover Institution of Senior Fellow, teaches law at NYU and the University of |
| 0:48.4 | Chicago. Very good evening to you, Professor. What happens next? Good evening to you professor what happens next good evening to you well down it goes to the |
| 0:55.8 | court of appeals down it goes into the trial court then it probably is going to take a |
| 1:00.8 | very long time to sort this mess out because if you look at the |
| 1:04.7 | opinion there are just allegations after allegations about everything that |
| 1:08.2 | Trump did, Trump that he said publicly, something he said to state law officials efforts to try to create alternative |
| 1:14.9 | slates of balance, all the stuff with respect to Mike Pence. |
| 1:18.9 | And as far as I can see, it will take several months at the very least to sort this out and if I were the government |
| 1:24.9 | at this point I would drop the case. |
| 1:26.7 | I think by the time they get done with trying to get around this case and the Fisher case, |
| 1:31.2 | there just isn't enough left there to make this into a credible prosecution. |
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