#SCOTUS: "Presidential Immunity" decision down the road. Richard Epstein, Hoover Institution
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#SCOTUS: "Presidential Immunity" decision down the road. Richard Epstein, Hoover Institution
https://www.msn.com/en-ie/news/world/mitch-mcconnell-doesn-t-think-trump-should-have-presidential-immunity/ar-AA1nIFcR
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| 0:00.0 | Have you ever felt like escaping to your own desert island? |
| 0:04.0 | Jane Gaskin did exactly that, trading in the family home to begin a new life in the |
| 0:09.1 | tropics. |
| 0:10.1 | But she soon discovers that Paradise has its secrets. |
| 0:13.4 | I'm Alice Levine, and this is the price of Paradise, |
| 0:18.0 | the island dream that ends in kidnap, corruption, and murder. Wish you were here. Follow the price of Paradise Now, wherever |
| 0:26.7 | you listen to podcasts. I'm John Batcha with Professor Richard Epstein of the Hoover Institution. |
| 0:39.2 | We are no longer saving democracy. |
| 0:42.0 | We're looking at the record of the Supreme Court |
| 0:44.5 | and the decisions that the justices have |
| 0:47.2 | ahead of them immediately. |
| 0:49.5 | By the end of June or early July |
| 0:51.3 | to render a decision on oral arguments that were presented |
| 0:54.5 | before the court within these last hours about whether a sitting president of |
| 1:00.0 | the United States enjoys immunity or immunity or immunity. |
| 1:04.6 | Professor, this matter comes up again and again and the court has taken it upon itself. |
| 1:09.8 | However, caveat, my understanding that the court does best when it stays out of elections, is that generally true, Professor? |
| 1:18.0 | I think it is very much the case that you try to stay out of election. |
| 1:22.0 | The problem is on many times you get involved in |
| 1:25.2 | election with a big kind of issue which is not an election issue as such like |
| 1:29.6 | what you do in connection with Obamacare in 2012. |
| 1:33.2 | And Judge Roberts punted. |
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