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#SCOTUS: The immunity Amendment & What is to be done? Richard Epstein, Hoover

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🗓️ 10 August 2024

⏱️ 13 minutes

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#SCOTUS: The immunity Amendment & What is to be done? Richard Epstein, Hoover
https://www.hoover.org/research/biden-misfires-presidential-immunity

1936 FDR and Fala

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0:00.0

This is

0:02.0

I and the world. I'm John Bachelor.

0:04.0

The President of the United States most recently about the Supreme Court.

0:09.0

I am calling for a constitutional amendment called the

0:13.2

no one is above the law amendment. It would make clear that there is no

0:18.3

immunity for crimes a former president committed while in office.

0:22.6

I share our founders believe that the president's power is limited, not absolute.

0:28.0

We are a nation of laws, not of kings or dictators.

0:33.0

I welcome Professor Richard Epstein, a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, teaches law

0:37.7

at NYU and the University of Chicago, to comment on the controversy over the recent Supreme Court decision about immunity

0:46.7

asking for clarification of what are the offenses from a lower courts?

0:53.8

Richard, a very good evening to you.

0:55.4

Thank you for this.

0:56.2

The President once a constitutional amendment,

0:59.2

which I admit is a stretch because that would require a filter that is very rare in this country

1:09.2

the acknowledgement of so many legislatures and it takes time and their campaigns have to be built for many

1:15.0

years and Mr. Biden is coming to the end of his time in office.

1:20.0

However, let us treat this as a theory and not as a ongoing campaign.

1:26.0

What is the objection he's raising?

1:28.0

What is it based upon?

1:29.0

Good evening to you.

1:30.0

Well, I mean, nobody's above the law says you don't like people to commit crimes and to get away with them.

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