Supreme Court Ruling Gives Trump Dangerous Power to Pardon Those He Directs to Detain his Enemies: Glenn Interviews Constitutional Law Professor Kim Wehle Part 2
Justice Matters with Glenn Kirschner
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🗓️ 26 July 2024
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Summary
The Supreme Court has, in substance, converted American democracy into a monarchy. The court's holding in Trump v. United States enables a president to direct his attorney general to detain the president's political enemies without charges, without evidence, and without due process, and then pardon his attorney general for the crimes he committed at the president's direction. This destruction of the constitution moves American government in the direction of a banana republic. This is part 2 of Glenn's interview with Constitutional Law Professor Kim Wehle.
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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. Welcome back and now here's part two of Glenn's interview with legal analyst and |
| 0:20.6 | constitutional law professor Kim Whaley. |
| 0:24.0 | Let's shift to the pardon power. |
| 0:25.0 | Yeah, so the reason I am so concerned about the way the pardon power might now play into the Supreme Court opinion is that the |
| 0:36.8 | Supreme Court said look one of the sort of exclusive and preclusive duties of a president is to talk to his attorney general. |
| 0:46.9 | And because he has to take care that the laws be faithfully executed, |
| 0:50.6 | he can tell his attorney general to prosecute anybody he wants, which I'm sorry, but to me when you know |
| 0:57.4 | Donald Trump will tell his attorney general prosecute people regardless of an absence of evidence that they've committed crimes. |
| 1:05.2 | We're weaponizing DOJ against my enemies. |
| 1:09.0 | It seems to me that we're not allowed to look behind that right under this new Supreme Court |
| 1:15.1 | opinion you can't you can't go into a president's motive so basically they |
| 1:18.6 | literally gave him license to commit crimes and use the Department of Justice to do it. Of course, the |
| 1:25.2 | attorney general, if he goes up and rounds up and unlawfully detains without |
| 1:29.7 | cause, without charges, without due process, all of Donald Trump's enemies. |
| 1:34.0 | Donald Trump can't be prosecuted, |
| 1:36.0 | but the attorney general could be prosecuted unless, |
| 1:39.0 | unless Donald Trump exercises |
| 1:42.0 | one of his other core presidential powers, the power of the |
| 1:46.3 | pardon. |
| 1:47.3 | He could pardon his attorney general and all other DOJ officials who complied with his unlawful orders to round up and detain his |
| 1:56.2 | enemies and where does that leave us as a nation, as a democracy, as a government. |
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