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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Chris Matthews: We have to protect our democracy now; 2024 is the year to defend our democracy
Chris Matthews weighs in on the Supreme Court hearing oral arguments in the Trump immunity case.
Jon Meacham: Are the people committed to voting for Trump affected by any of this?
A key witness in Donald Trump's criminal trial testified Thursday about his role in hush money payments to a porn actress and a Playboy model the former president allegedly had affairs with — and Trump's plan to make sure other negative stories about him never saw the light of day. The Morning Joe panel discusses the criminal trial, and historian Jon Meacham wonders if those committed to voting for Trump for a third time are impacted by the case.
Michael Fanone: Where is the urgency to address the matter at hand?
Retired Metropolitan Police Officer Michael Fanone joins Morning Joe to discuss the Supreme Court hearing oral arguments in the Trump immunity case.
'Football is boring as hell': Trump's hating on football the focus of new Biden ad
The Biden campaign is out with a new ad featuring Donald Trump's past remarks disparaging football.
Lisa Rubin: We're not going to see a trial in Judge Chutkan's court anytime soon
The Supreme Court indicated Thursday that any trial in former President Donald Trump's election interference case is unlikely to take place any time soon, with justices expressing concern about whether certain presidential acts should be off-limits. The Morning Joe panel discusses.
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.”
