Will the Supreme Court Buy Trump's Claim that He's Immune from Prosecution?
Justice Matters with Glenn Kirschner
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🗓️ 1 May 2024
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
Donald Trump is indicted on 88 felony counts, across four jurisdictions, for crimes he committed - many of them while he was serving as president. Trump's lawyer, John Sauer, argued before the U.S. Supreme Court that Trump shouldn't be prosecuted for the crimes that were committed while he was in office. Specifically, Sauer said that the following acts are official presidential acts that would be covered by presidential immunity: ordering the assassination of a political rival; ordering the military to stage a coup to keep the president in power after he lost an election; and selling our nation's nuclear secrets to a foreign adversary. But Glenn says he's worried about something even worse than Sauer's deeply anti-democratic, anti-rule-of-law, and anti-constitutional arguments. Some of the Supreme Court Justices seemed to be seriously entertaining those arguments. And none more that Justice Samuel Alito.
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| 0:00.0 | It's time for Justice Matters with former federal prosecutor and MS NBC analyst Glenn Kirchner. Donald Trump's lawyer argued before the Supreme Court that Trump should not be |
| 0:19.4 | prosecuted for the crimes he committed while he was president. |
| 0:22.6 | So are any of the justices citing with Trump |
| 0:25.0 | on his absolute immunity claim? |
| 0:27.3 | Here's Glenn. |
| 0:29.3 | So friends, if you listened to the live stream of Donald Trump's absolute immunity argument before the Supreme Court, |
| 0:38.0 | you'd be forgiven if you thought you were listening to a Saturday Night Live skit. |
| 0:44.0 | Only problem is, there was nothing funny about it. |
| 0:49.0 | Let's start with the new reporting. |
| 0:51.0 | This from the New York Times. Headline, Conservative justices take argument over Trump's immunity in unexpected direction. |
| 1:01.0 | Thursday's Supreme Court hearing was memorable for its discussion of coups, assassinations, |
| 1:07.6 | and internments, but very little about the former President's conduct. |
| 1:12.1 | Before the Supreme Court heard arguments little about the former president's conduct. |
| 1:13.2 | Before the Supreme Court heard arguments on Thursday, |
| 1:16.1 | on former President Donald Trump's claim |
| 1:18.4 | that he is immune from prosecution, |
| 1:21.6 | his stance was widely seen as a brazen and cynical bid to delay his |
| 1:26.8 | trial. |
| 1:28.2 | The practical question in the case, it was thought, was not whether the court would rule against him, but whether it would act |
| 1:35.8 | quickly enough to allow the trial to go forward before the 2024 election. |
| 1:41.2 | Instead, members of the court's conservative election. that he tried to subvert the 2020 election as a weighty and difficult question. |
| 1:57.0 | They did so, said Pamela Carlin, a law professor at Stanford, by averting their eyes from Mr. Trump's conduct. |
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