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Laura Coates Live

Supreme Court’s Historic Immunity Ruling

Laura Coates Live

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3.92.5K Ratings

🗓️ 2 July 2024

⏱️ 44 minutes

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The Supreme Court handed down a landmark decision granting Donald Trump partial immunity from special counsel Jack Smith’s election subversion case, handing the former president a significant win during his reelection bid. Dissenting justices ripped the ruling as “antithetical” to the constitution.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Well, the Supreme Court largely cosigns Richard Nixon's

0:04.0

it, that means that it is not illegal.

0:07.0

Well, the Supreme Court largely co-signs Richard Nixon's

0:11.0

infamous argument.

0:12.0

What it means for the cases against

0:13.7

Donald Trump and could help President Joe Biden survive the calls for

0:17.4

him to step down tonight on Laura Coates live. I. All right, let me ask you a question, America.

0:28.0

Do you believe the following statement, no one is above the law? Do you? It's not actually a rhetorical question. I'm genuinely curious. Do you believe sitting where you are today that no one is above the law?

0:45.0

I bet for many of you at one time you would have answered yes and probably emphatically

0:50.0

and maybe especially when it came to the President of the United States.

0:53.5

But today, tonight, I wonder if that answer may have changed.

0:59.0

Today it feels less like a declaratory statement and more of a kind of valley up speak known as above the law?

1:06.7

Well at least one person no longer believes it.

1:10.4

Quote, the president is now a king above the law, unquote.

1:16.1

That kind of Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor.

1:19.0

I'll read her words again.

1:21.0

The president is now a king above the law. That's how she

1:26.0

characterized the impact of the court's historic six to three ruling today.

1:31.0

One that found that Donald Trump and well any other president for

1:34.6

that matter has substantial immunity for official acts. In other words if it's

1:39.2

part of the official job description laid out in the Constitution, he can't prosecute him in criminal

1:45.0

court.

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