On Monday, the Supreme Court ruled that former President Donald J. Trump is entitled to broad immunity from criminal prosecution for actions that he took while in office. Adam Liptak, who covers the Supreme Court for The New York Times, explains how that ruling will weaken the federal case against Mr. Trump for trying to overturn the last U.S. presidential election, and will drastically expand the power of the presidency itself. Guest: Adam Liptak, a Supreme Court correspondent for The New York Times.
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This is the daily on Monday, the Supreme Court ruled that former President Trump is entitled to broad immunity from criminal prosecution for actions that he took while in office.
My colleague Adam Liptak explains how that ruling will weaken the federal case against Trump for trying to overturn the last election and will dramatically expand the power of the presidency itself.
Its Tuesday, July 2.
Adam, within the past few days, former President Trump experienced a major political victory at the first presidential debate against President Biden, who did quite badly.
And now Trump has won a major legal victory at the Supreme Court.
He's having a good week.
And the Supreme Court on Monday severely undermined a case that really troubles former President Trump.
And so he's got political victories, and he might even say that he's got a constitutional victory because the court in large part embraced his version of presidential power.
Okay, and we're gonna get to all the details of this ruling.
I wanted to remind listeners about the origins of this case.
It begins with the events leading up to January 6, and it has had a pretty long journey to the high court.
Right?