Hey, everybody. Welcome to the McCrack podcast. I'm Jard Yates Sexton. I'm here with Nick Houseman. Nick, how you do, but? I'm doing. I'm doing okay, but it's a not an easy day for democracy, I'll tell you that. Yeah, some people are called a shit day. You know, we got on here after the debate on Thursday. I think we made a lot of news with the people who watched and listened to us, and we watched all hell

break loose afterwards. We were going to come on here and talk about that, which we still will,

because it's a major, major story, a developing story that keeps going on, what has happened

with Joe Biden, the Democratic Party. But Nick, this morning, the Supreme Court threw us all

a curveball.

We're going to have later on Dr. Adam Winkler, a constitutional law professor from UCLA to talk with us about this ruling.

But six to three in the case of Trump v. the United States, the Supreme Court has ruled that the President of the United States of America has immunity from prosecution when performing quote unquote official actions. It still determines, still to be determined whether or not

January 6th and an attempted coup was an official action or unofficial action. It sure seems like

Chief Justice John Roberts has his thoughts. But I have to imagine this is probably a good day

wherever in the hell Richard Millhouse Nixon is. And for people who have to imagine this is probably a good day wherever in the hell

Richard Millhouse Nixon is. And for people who might remember, this was once a controversial

quote. Well, when the president does it, that means that it is not illegal. By definition,

exactly. Cool. Nick, do you remember when that was like one of the most absurd things ever,

and it only added to Richard Nixon's disgrace and everybody laughed about that and pretended like it was, you know, really, really a terrible thing?

That doesn't, that doesn't. Oh, yeah, yeah. I don't remember that. No. Well, no. I mean, as soon as they restarted rehabbing his image and they actually had people back in the government who were angry

about what happened to him. We knew that this was a collision course towards this. And by the way,

I think this is all related to the fact that Gerald Ford pardoned him because if he had, he was

going to be prosecuted and he was going to be found guilty, Nixon was back then. And had that happened, we would have had

precedent for a lot of these things and what is legal and what is official action of the president

already kind of outlined. We wouldn't have had to have done what the Supreme Court did today.

That said, do we have any confidence that the Supreme Court would actually even pay attention to

stare decisis in what the precedent was in the past? Well, I mean, they don't really give a shit much in the way.

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