Supreme Court Gives Trump a Blueprint for Dictatorship
Justice Matters with Glenn Kirschner
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🗓️ 10 July 2024
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
The Supreme Court didn't JUST rule that presidents have absolute presidential immunity. They actually ruled that presidents have absolute presidential immunity PLUS.
Constitutional scholars left, right, and center are excoriating the new Supreme Court opinion that 1. contradicts the expressed language of our constitution, 2. actually repeals portions of our constitution, and, in essence, 3. declares the constitution is unconstitutional. Yes, that is illogical, but that is precisely what Chief Justice Roberts and the radical right-wing block of justices did in Trump vs. United States.
This ruling gives Donald Trump a blueprint to convert America into a banana republic. And Donald Trump is exactly the kind of day-one-dictator who will do it. This ruling not only excuses lawless conduct by a corrupt president, it endorses such conduct, and thereby encourages future presidents to act lawlessly and to direct others to to the same then simply exercise his core constitutional power of the presidential pardon to pardon all of his criminal associates who carry out his unlawful commands. This is not just absolute presidential power. It is absolute presidential power PLUS. And like Dred Scott, Korematsu, and Plessy vs. Ferguson, this opinion must not stand.
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| 0:00.0 | It's time for Justice Matters with former federal prosecutor and MS NBC analyst, |
| 0:04.9 | Plen Kirchner. According to constitutional scholars, the Supreme Court gave Donald Trump more than just absolute |
| 0:21.8 | immunity in their ruling. |
| 0:23.6 | Here's Glenn to explain. |
| 0:26.7 | So friends, in the new Supreme Court case |
| 0:29.4 | of Donald Trump versus the United States. |
| 0:33.0 | Let's just pause there for a minute. |
| 0:35.0 | Talk about an appropriate title, caption, name for a case. |
| 0:42.0 | Donald Trump versus the United States of America. |
| 0:48.0 | In that case, the Supreme Court, the radical right-wing block of the Supreme Court, in an opinion authored by Chief Justice |
| 0:55.9 | John Roberts, the Supreme Court contradicted the Constitution. |
| 1:02.0 | In substance, they repealed part of the Constitution, in substance they repealed part of the Constitution, in a very real sense, |
| 1:08.2 | they rendered the Constitution unconstitutional. |
| 1:13.0 | But friends, don't take my word for it. |
| 1:16.0 | Take the word of one of our nation's preeminent constitutional |
| 1:20.0 | scholars, Akkeel Reed Amar. |
| 1:24.6 | I want to quote Professor Amar's peace in the Atlantic at some length, |
| 1:30.6 | and then we're going to build on it a little bit, |
| 1:32.4 | and we're going to talk about what the plus really means in |
| 1:38.2 | absolute presidential immunity. |
| 1:41.0 | Plus, something has gone deeply wrong at the Supreme Court. Jurists, meaning judges and |
| 1:49.4 | justices, jurists who preach fidelity to the Constitution are making decisions that flatly |
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