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US POLITICS SCOTUS GONE ROGUE ... JULY 2024 BTC Democracy Watch: Marc Elias discusses solutions to the bombshell Trump SCOTUS ruling. PLAY YOUTUBE VIDEO Original article: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-YGlUQKSYY Peter Burgess COMMENTARY Peter Burgess
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Supreme Court is naive about the realities of Donald Trump no no no the Supreme Court's not naive about the realities of Donald Trump the Supreme Court knew exactly what they were doing both with respect to impacting the past cases the cases that are pending but also what it means if Donald Trump wins again right Donald Trump is saying he will be a dictator for a day Donald 1:00 Trump is saying that he will exact uh retribution Donald Trump is working with project 202 2025 and others to allow him to take over the entire executive branch to meet out uh you know retribution through frivolous criminal prosecutions and investigations so do I think that this could be fixed by by Congress passing a law no why because the Supreme Court is in on it you know the Supreme Court the Supreme Court did this because this was the result they wanted and and it's about time that we look in the mirror and rather than seeing a bunch of Harvard and Yale educated people who drink wine at cocktail parties and eat crud and send their kids to the same prep schools that that that liberals do and think that they have the same value system to realize they don't have the same value system this is what they intended to do and I and I am at a loss for words as to how this gets fixed because I don't think if Congress passed a law saying look the madeup 2:00 that the Supreme Court created you know it goes away I think the Supreme Court would say no you can't do that we we think that this is a matter of constitutional law and that trumps your statute and and is that is that how it works like would the Supreme Court have the ability to interpret a law that Congress passed that would expressly forbid a president from having uh presidential immunity could the Supreme Court then then overturn a law that Congress passes sure I mean you know the Supreme Court does strike down laws if they're unconstitutional and they would say that this is a matter of constitutional law and you know that's just the way that's just the way it is and you know you get it all your your your incredulousness gets at kind of the the real Point here which is you are left saying but wouldn't the Supreme Court in that circumstance like realize the enormity of what they would be doing there right they would be overturning the will of the Congress to limit the ability of a of a of a president to among other things assassinate their political IAL 3:00 opponents and Escape criminal liability but if one thing we learned from dos and all of the cases afterwards that is not a the for the conservatives that is a feature not a flaw right right and I think they do these things knowing that like for all those people and this is going to be lead into my next question about what Biden can do but for all these people who say well now Biden has cart blanch to do X Y and Z they understand the asymmetry between the two parties they understand that even though a president could do something right now by virtue of this decision that a Democratic president just wouldn't a Democratic president just wouldn't do the same things that someone like Donald Trump would do would Avail himself of and so I I think that's that's their safety valve in all of this all this yeah I mean I wrote a piece for democracy doet a few weeks back about election denialism called the asymmetry of election denialism right which is exactly this is that you know Democrats are not going to engage in Mass voter suppression we are not not going to 4:01 adopt an election Deni movement and that gives the other side a lot of flexibility well boy is that showing itself out here right because like you said Joe Biden is not going to assassinate his political opponents Joe Biden is not going to commit crimes in office and no Democratic president as you point out would do that and I'm not even sure every Republican president would do it but sitting on their doorstep sitting on their doorstep is both are both criminal cases where a Republican president did it and that same person the Republican nominee you know running neck and neck in the polls to potentially do it again next year right uh to that point then what could Biden do as the result of this ruling and what should Biden do as the result of this ruling look I think that that if all of the the delay and hand ringing that we have seen and I'm not saying just from President Biden but I think he's been because he's an institutionalist I think he has been slow on this and the White House has but all of the hand ringing about judicial reform just has to end right I mean if if there was if you 5:00 didn't have the wakeup call that the Supreme Court needs to be reformed in its ethics in uh in you know the way in which they choose cases and the way in which the opinions are handed down the way in which they have aggregated their own power I mean it's not just this case you know remember you know a few days ago we were talking about another case where they gave a pass to January 6 insurrectionist and a few months ago we were talking about a a case in which they told Colorado they couldn't kick Trump off the ballot under the 14th Amendment an insurrectionist you know this is a pattern this is not a oneoff case and so you know we need to have a serious conversation as a country Congress needs to have a serious conversation the White House needs to have a serious conversation and we need to have a campaign that talks about not just democracy being on the ballot but also Court reform being on the ballot well you've been beating this drum to your credit and to the credit of democracy docket um and I think that's exactly the kind of the kind of outlets the kind of people that need to be lifted up so uh for those watching right now if you are not yet subscribe to 6:00 democracy doet it's the free news Outlet markf found did focus on everything voting in elections please make sure to sign up because this is the exact kind of thing that we should be lifting up in in light of what we just saw in the court you had just mentioned uh the the for section three of the 14th Amendment case can you help me reconcile here how the Supreme Court could create this idea of presidential immunity for committing criminal activity totally out of whole cloth this is something that is not in the Constitution and in fact the uh immunity for for civil prosecution is which would by negative inference suggest that actually the Supreme that actually the Constitution prohibits immunity for criminal prosecution and yet disregarded the plain text of the Constitution as it relates to section 3 of the 14th Amendment which very clearly states that an official is disqualified from running for office again if they engage in Insurrection can you help me explain the the the dichotomy between these two things yeah originalism and textualism has been replaced as that uh 7:00 by viismusic off the ballot and they're vibing that Donald Trump should have immunity but the fact is they are both similar cases in that in one instance textualism and originalism would have kicked Donald Trump off the ballot and in another case it would not have given immunity to presidents as you point out there is in the US Constitution a a clear provision of immunity to members of the legislative branch it's called speech and debate immunity there is not immunity anywhere to be found in the constitution for the president of United States and they created an immunity that is not just what Donald Trump wanted but Donald Trump wanted and then some they gave him more in some senses that they wanted and they have put in serious Jeopardy not just the the case in Washington DC on January 6 the Georgia case about January 6th uh you know Lord knows in Florida he doesn't even need a there he's just got to the point of 8:00 Florida Clarence Thomas appropo of nothing slipped in this little Clause that I'm going to read to you right now he said uh in this case the Attorney General purported to appoint a private citizen as special counsel to prosecute a former president on behalf of the United States but I am not sure that any office for the special counsil has been established by law as the Constitution requires so that's just a little nugget for judge Cannon who is right now litigating and adjudicating this issue of whether or not a special counsel can even bring be can even uh uh prosecute this case as she's deciding whether or not to dismiss it and Clarence Thomas offered a little nugget to say hey hey judge Cannon if this thing if you dismiss this and it makes its way up to the Supreme Court you got at least one vote in your corner oh at least I mean come on he's got more than one got more than one vote in his corner I think we we all know um but absolutely and so you know this will have a cascading effect of with regarding a number of the Donald Trump cases and when when you take it in 9:00 conjunction with the fiser case the January 6 Insurrection case you know people say well this is only immunity for Donald Trump not the people who he ordered to do it of course he has the pardon power and he has been clear that he will use the pardon power to achieve a political end and he can't be prosecuted for that we now know right and so what is being created is through all of these decisions is a culture a culture that magga that the Maga movement is going to see and is going to experience that they can be Lawless they can be brazen and they will get away with it and you know four months from the next election and four and a half months from the next set of litigation that Donald Trump will bring to try to overturn the election and five or six months away from the next January 6 we should all be worried about that I can feel the blood temper the the blood pressure is rising uh among all of our viewers on the other side of these screens so I have to ask this question right now given the the sheer amount of Despair that I'm sure people are feeling right now that I'm sure you and I are feeling right now what what's your message to people today what's what's 10:01 the message you want to send them off with what what what could we do moving forward look don't despair I mean this is the time to to to to fight back I mean you know despair doesn't get you anywhere despair doesn't help save democracy right we all need to be more determined than ever to protect democracy and that starts with making sure you are registered to vote your friends and family are registered to vote that you know you haven't been kicked off the ballot by the right-wing uh uh vote suppressors uh and then make sure you vote and you vote for Democrats up and down the ballot from top to Absolute bottom make sure you know the issues if there is a ballot initiative in your state make sure you know about them if you're in a state with a pro-choice ballot initiative make sure you vote for that and everyone needs to speak out you know this is not the time to bury your head in the sand this is the time to speak out loudly in your town square take to Facebook Twitter uh uh Instagram uh YouTube uh go to your friends your family stand on the street corner if you have to and tell them that we need to fight for our democracy 11:01 perfectly put we'll leave it there uh for those watching right now, again to support the invaluable work that Mark and his team are doing and again this is in ground zero for where a lot of these fights are fought which is in the courts If you want to support Mark and his team please make sure to sign up for democracy. it up with a link right here on the screen and also in the post description of this video I'm Brian Tyler Cohen I'm Mark Elias this is Democracy Watch [Music]

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