The Supreme Court Throws Trump & Other Insurrectionists a Lifeline
Justice Matters with Glenn Kirschner
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🗓️ 4 July 2024
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
In an opinion by Chief Justice John Roberts, the Supreme Court disregards the plain language of a law by which Congress criminalized conduct that "obstructs, influences, or impedes any official proceeding." Roberts and the majority then delivers a gift to Donald Trump and several dozen of his insurrectionists. Importantly, in a dissenting opinion, Justice Amy Coney Barrett, joined by justices Kagan and Sotomayor, call Roberts and the majority out for their flawed analysis, saying it "is like using a hammer to pound in a screw - it looks like it might work, but using it botches the job." She further exposes the majority for "failing to respect the prerogatives" of Congress and the Executive branch. Glenn discusses why this Supreme Court opinion is an inappropriate windfall to Trump and some of his fellow insurrectionists.
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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. In an opinion authored |
| 0:15.0 | opinion authored by Chief Justice John Roberts, |
| 0:19.0 | the Supreme Court has ruled in favor of a January 6th insurrectionist. |
| 0:23.3 | Glenn says this is a gift to Donald Trump. |
| 0:27.4 | So friends, Donald Trump's foot soldiers, |
| 0:30.7 | the boots of the insurrection, the ones who were inspired and incited by Donald |
| 0:37.2 | Trump's lies to attack the US capital on January 6th and why did they do it to stop the certification to stop the |
| 0:47.6 | steel or put another way they attacked the capital to obstruct an official proceeding, the |
| 0:56.3 | certification of Joe Biden's election win. And here's the thing. The law |
| 1:01.9 | criminalizes expressly in plain language obstructing an official proceeding. |
| 1:12.2 | But in a new Supreme Court opinion authored by Chief Justice Roberts, that plain |
| 1:19.6 | language doesn't matter. And what a favor the Supreme Court just did for Donald Trump |
| 1:27.4 | and some of his fellow insurrectionists. Now at first friends this is going to feel a little dense a little |
| 1:36.0 | like we're down in the legal weeds but please stick with me I'm going to try to |
| 1:39.7 | mow down those legal weeds and make it clear. |
| 1:44.3 | We're going to start with the new reporting |
| 1:46.2 | and then we're going to look at just a little bit of this |
| 1:49.2 | new Supreme Court opinion. |
| 1:51.4 | First the new reporting, This from NBC News. Headline, |
| 1:55.8 | Supreme Court rules for January 6th, Rioter Challenging Obstruction Charge. |
| 2:02.2 | And that article begins. challenging obstruction charge. |
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