Clarence Thomas set to weigh Trump’s immunity claim despite recusal calls over Jan. 6
The justice’s participation in the former president’s Supreme Court immunity appeal is one of the case’s several shady aspects.
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Ex-National Enquirer publisher testifies in Trump 's NY criminal trial
The former publisher of the National Enquirer, David Pecker, was back on the witness stand in the Trump's first criminal trial today – and gave jurors new details on the 'catch-and-kill' scheme allegedly used to bury bad press about the former President. Peter Baker, Mark Joseph Stern, Josh Gerstein, and Joyce Vance discuss with Katie Phang.
'Dispiriting day for Special Counsel Jack Smith': SCOTUS considers Trump immunity claim
The Supreme Court heard oral arguments in former president Trump's immunity claim. While they will ultimately decide whether or not former President Trump can be tried for plotting to overturn the 2020 election, they spent the day debating the distinction between personal and official acts. Katie Phang discusses with Peter Baker, Mark Joseph Stern, Josh Gerstein and Joyce Vance.
Justice Jackson raises a red flag on the idea of a president with no legal liability
An MSNBC prime time panel discusses the argument made by Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson that making the president above any criminal accountability for crimes they may commit in office presents a greater risk of mushrooming criminal activity in the White House than the "chilling effect" that concerns Donald Trump's legal team and their sympathetic justices.
‘High priest of policy’: Sen. Whitehouse slams ‘pompous’ Gorsuch on Trump immunity
Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse joins MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell to discuss why Justice Clarence Thomas “remains a real problem” for the Supreme Court for not recusing himself from cases related to January 6, and how the Trump immunity case compares to Bush v. Gore.
Murder, coup, bribery: Trump team stands by extreme hypotheticals in Supreme Court immunity case
Rachel Maddow recaps the day's arguments before the Supreme Court on "presidential immunity" and the lengths to which justices devoted to Donald Trump and the Republican Party went to accommodate Trump's audacious argument that he should be impervious from prosecution for his role in the January 6 insurrection.
'That was embarrassing': Tribe torches Trump-friendly SCOTUS justices on immunity
Laurence Tribe joins MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell to discuss his reaction to the Supreme Court’s arguments on Donald Trump’s claim of presidential immunity and the “shameful performance by the court basically buying the very time that Trump wanted.”
Lawrence: Supreme Court justices can protect the Constitution or Trump
MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell details how the arguments by the Supreme Court on Trump’s immunity claim reveals the two different kinds of justices on the court, “justices who are trying to protect the Constitution and the law” and justices who are trying to protect “specifically a former president named Trump.”
‘Surreal’: Ex-National Enquirer publisher admits ‘catch-and-kill’ schemes aimed to aid Trump in 2016
Former National Enquirer publisher David Pecker admitted on the witness stand in the Stormy Daniels hush money case that “catch-and-kill” schemes were planned to help Donald Trump in the 2016 election. Lachlan Cartwright, who worked for David Pecker as executive editor at the National Enquirer, and who is now a special correspondent for The Hollywood Reporter, and Susanne Craig, a New York Times investigative reporter, join Joy Reid to discuss.
'Genuinely shocking': Pro-Trump justices give presidential immunity case bad faith treatment
An MSNBC prime time panel share overall assessments of the arguments presented to the Supreme Court today on the question of whether "presidential immunity" protects Donald Trump from being prosecuted for his role in the January 6 insurrection, and the brazen manner in which some of the partisan justices showed their willingness to manipulate the case to Donald Trump's benefit.
‘They should move Supreme Court to RNC headquarters’: Top Dem slams GOPer justices protecting Trump
Presidents deserving some form of immunity is an argument that conservative Supreme Court Justices are apparently open to, as revealed by Donald Trump’s immunity claim Supreme Court arguments. Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) slams the Republican justices who seem to support this argument.
‘Exposed’: Republican SCOTUS justices doing ‘everything in their power to protect Trump’ expert says
The Supreme Court heard arguments on Donald Trump's claim of absolute presidential immunity on Thursday, with his lawyer suggesting that this could include actions like staging a military coup or ordering political assassinations—an argument widely deemed absurd.
