Supreme Court Grants Trump Some Immunity From Prosecution
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🗓️ 2 July 2024
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Summary
The Supreme Court's conservative majority handed former President Donald Trump a major win on Monday, granting him broad — though not full — immunity from charges he tried to overturn the 2020 election. The decision effectively kicks Trump's federal election interference case back down to a lower court judge to parse out which of his actions that day, and leading up to it, could be considered "unofficial acts," for which he could still be prosecuted. It makes the likelihood of a trial before November almost nonexistent and raises the stakes of the presidential election. Kate Shaw, co-host of Crooked's legal podcast 'Strict Scrutiny,' explains what the court's decision means for Trump's Jan. 6 case and all future presidents of the United States.
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| 0:00.0 | It's Tuesday, July 2nd. I'm Travel Anderson. |
| 0:04.5 | And I'm Todd's Willick. |
| 0:05.5 | And this is what a day, the show where we're wondering if the Supreme Court just spent the last two weeks |
| 0:10.9 | launching America's going out of business sale. |
| 0:13.6 | Just in time for the 4th of July. |
| 0:16.2 | Oh, I love a sale time. |
| 0:18.0 | I love Independence Day. |
| 0:19.4 | Independence from not having a king? On today's show a new anti-DEI law forces cultural resource centers to |
| 0:36.8 | shudder in Utah plus chicken soup for the soul files for bankruptcy. |
| 0:41.6 | But first Treville let's travel back in time almost 20 years ago |
| 0:46.8 | to September 2005. Okay, my eyes are closed and I'm thinking back to 2005. |
| 0:52.4 | What happened then. |
| 0:53.6 | In your way way back machine Travel, that was when the Senate held hearings on the nomination |
| 0:58.9 | of a very young, very naive John Roberts to be the next Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. |
| 1:05.0 | And it was during those very hearings that John Roberts said these words. |
| 1:10.0 | I believe that no one is above the law under our system and that includes the president. |
| 1:15.0 | The president is fully bound by the law, the Constitution, and statutes. |
| 1:19.2 | Okay, so not exactly a hot take there, but why is this important now? |
| 1:25.0 | Because that was John Roberts 20 years ago trying to get the job in the Supreme Court |
| 1:29.7 | and on Monday that very same now Chief Chief Justice John Roberts, was the man, the one we just heard |
| 1:35.5 | say that nobody is above the law, including the President, authoring an opinion that green lights |
| 1:40.4 | a sweeping expansion of presidential powers. It was signed by the court's five |
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