Trump immunity case EXPLAINED: Alan Dershowitz's biggest takeaways
Yesterday, in a landmark decision, the Supreme Court determined in a 6-3 ruling that former presidents have broad immunity from prosecution for actions related to the core powers of their office.
This will send Trump’s case back to the lower courts where it will be determined whether or not his January 6 actions were official or unofficial.
How should we interpret this ruling, and what does it mean going forward? Glenn Beck, Stu Burguiere, and Alan Dershowitz discuss the case.
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“I think it’s a win for the republic,” says Glenn.
Dershowitz agrees and adds that it’s likely a win for Donald Trump too, as “it probably means there won't be a trial before the election.”
However, “I think [the ruling] is going to be hard to implement in practice because everything the president does, he does as president. That's very hard to separate out private acts from public acts,” he explains.
Further, “There is no actual official process to figure out whether these are official acts or not, so this is a maze of legal rulings and challenges,” adds Stu.
And there’s another potential problem.
“It's going to be implemented by the lower courts, and the lower court of the District of Columbia [is] completely biased against Trump,” says Dershowitz, adding that “it may come back to the Supreme Court."
But Glenn has a prediction.
If “President Trump loses this election ... these cases will just disappear,” but “if [Trump] wins this election, they'll fight it tooth and nail, and they'll drag him all the way through.”
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Can the Democrats scare the Supreme Court out of hearing Trump’s appeal?
Donald Trump has been convicted on 34 counts in his New York hush-money trial — and Americans everywhere are horrified.
Not only because the former president may be going to prison, but the additional looming consequences could be game-changing.
“I think it also will be used as the excuse for Joe Biden not debating him. ‘I don’t debate a felon,’” Glenn Beck predicts, mocking Biden.
“They’re moving past this and they’re moving to the Supreme Court,” Glenn continues. “They are launching cannon balls at the ship, saying, ‘Don’t you dare get involved in this trial.’”
“They sent the message to Alito and Thomas and everybody else, ‘Back off, stay down,’” he explains.
“That’s the entire point of this process, in a nutshell, is intimidation. Telling them to back down, do not stand in our way,” Glenn’s chief researcher, Jason Buttrill, agrees.
“I’m glad you talk about this going to the Supreme Court. This is absolutely getting appealed,” Buttrill says. “But first he has to go to sentencing. Now, normally, in a sane world, I would say you know he’s only going to get probation, maybe at the very worst like house arrest.”
While the Democrats are doing everything they can to keep Trump out of the White House, their plan might be backfiring when it comes to their support.
“People who didn’t vote and don’t like Donald Trump, I’ve seen them yesterday give and commit to voting for him,” Glenn says, adding that however, “there is a chance this works out horribly.”
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How the Supreme Court’s presidential immunity decision could change everything
Donald Trump is currently embroiled in four different criminal cases, one of which involves the question of presidential immunity.
On Wednesday this week, the Supreme Court agreed to hear Trump’s case regarding whether or not he has presidential immunity when it comes to his alleged efforts to overturn the 2020 election.
“I think this is good news,” says Glenn Beck. “Can Donald Trump be held now in a criminal case for his acts as president? The answer has always been no.”
“That should have been stopped by Congress or the Supreme Court … as an official act,” he explains.
According to Glenn, if the justices rule that a president can do “an official act and then be held in criminal court,” it will allow opponents “to prosecute any president that's running a second term.”
Further, such a ruling would “completely gut our president.”
The sitting president has full immunity as the chief executive, but in order to be imprisoned, “he would need to be impeached first and then removed from office,” explains Stu Burguiere, adding that this isn’t in the Constitution but has long been the “guideline.”
The SCOTUS hearing is set to take place in April, which at least would “slow down the Jack Smith trial on Donald Trump.”
“I think Donald Trump is in the best position he’s been in since all this started,” says Stu.
To hear more, watch the clip below.
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Why the Supreme Court should STAY OUT of the Trump/January 6 debate
The effort to put Donald Trump behind bars is relentless — or as Mark Levin says, “Grotesque.”
And it’s only escalating.
The Supreme Court has now announced that it will hear an appeal that could have a big effect on the January 6-related case against him. But while this case has to do with charges of obstruction of an official proceeding, there’s another case that the Supreme Court could hear.
Special counsel Jack Smith is demanding the Supreme Court rule on Trump’s claim of executive immunity as soon as possible.
“These dimwits, they say, ‘Okay, we’ll consider your argument. Trumps’ lawyers, you have one week to respond, go,’” Levin tells Glenn Beck angrily.
“This guy, Jack Smith, the courts are bending over backwards to accommodate this guy. He wins every single motion, Trump loses every single motion in front of this radical Obama judge,” he continues.
One of Levin’s bigger concerns regarding the Supreme Court is John Roberts, who he says is a “huge problem.”
“John Roberts is like this guy Michael Luttig. They hate Trump. They’re Republicans, but you know, they’re proper Republicans. They don’t like the tweeting, you know? They don’t like the language,” Levin explains.
At the end of the day, Levin does not believe the Supreme Court should involve itself.
“The Supreme Court should not take this case up,” Levin says definitively. “They sure as hell don’t speak for 80 million people. And so the judiciary, I would argue, is doing severe damage to this country allowing incredible interference in this election process.”
John Roberts isn’t the only one on the Supreme Court Levin is worried about.
“You really have three tremendous constitutionalists, then you’ve got a couple of RINOs, and then we got the hardcore-left Democrats,” Levin tells Glenn.
At the end of the day, all the cases brought against Trump are being brought for a very specific reason.
“The problem with all this is this lower court judge and this prosecutor all know that they’re setting Donald Trump up for a conviction. So when he runs for office as president in the general election, the media and everyone else will keep calling him a convicted felon,” Levin says.
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Will the Supreme Court restore freedom of speech?
A Louisiana district court judge has just ruled that the Biden administration most likely violated the First Amendment by calling on social media companies to censor political speech during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Judge Terry Doughty, who is a Trump appointee, issued an injunction banning federal agencies — like the FBI — and officials from working with social media companies to censor speech normally protected by the First Amendment.
Doughty said in a statement that he believes that the government “colluded with and/or coerced social media platforms to suppress disfavored speakers, viewpoints, and content on social media platforms.”
He accused the United States government of assuming “a role similar to an Orwellian ‘Ministry of Truth,’” and using its power to “silence the opposition” on COVID-19 vaccines, COVID-19 masking, lockdowns, the lab-leak theory, the validity of the 2020 election, Biden’s policies, and Hunter Biden’s laptop.
Pat Gray is impressed.
“This guy’s really good. All of that is so very true.”
While Gray knows that those who side with the government on the matter will say it was because the political opposition was spreading dangerous “disinformation” and “misinformation” — he also knows that it was the government that created those terms in the first place.
“Who decides that — the government, the left? Because all of that stuff turned out to be true and accurate,” Gray says, continuing, “Let the American people noodle that out. We’re smart enough to do that.”
“If people are saying things about the vaccine that isn’t true, it’ll come out,” he adds.
Keith Malinak agrees and quotes Terry Doughty.
“Otherwise, it’s almost like the United States government seems to have assumed a role similar to an Orwellian 'Ministry of Truth,'” he mimes.
“Powerful,” Gray responds.
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