limited in georgia. if he s convicted and sentenced to jail, he ll probably do some jail time. you re a constitutional law professor. from your perspective, what are you thinking about as we head into 2024? we re in the middle of a presidential election. trump is at the head of the republican ticket at least right now in the primaries. at what point do you see the country facing a constitutional crisis if there is one? well, i think we are facing one if donald trump is elected president again, and as i would expect the fulton county indictment doesn t go to trial. we re go tong have a sitting president with a criminal trial going on in state court and i think we know enough about donald trump that he s going to use all the powers of the presidency to try to derail that stat prosecution, and it s
outrage. again, i do think these are working in the short range, but not the long range. the human rights campaign says that there have been more than 520 pieces of anti lgbtq legislation introduced in red state legislatures across the country, just this past year, mainly targeting transgender kids. just about every anti lgbtq protesters says something like, think of the children. what messaging is the sending to kids, frankly, you and i both know they re watching and they re listening. yes, they are. i think that this is not a new message about lgbtq people. 1977, 70, a the save the children campaign, right? we ve seen in the 1930s with the campaign against sexual psychopaths. so, the notion of targeting gay and lesbian people in order to protect the innocence of children, you know, it s interesting that in fact the
counsel has interviewed a great number of witnesses, including some of the aides closest to donald trump at mar-a-lago. and after the several week hiatus, it would suggest that the special counsel is looking to either continue their work or wrap up even potentially their work. there s no indication at this time that prosecutors are ready to try to indict the former president. but it is notable here that the special counsel in june is convening this grand jury again in what would amount to potentially very serious federal and criminal charges against the former president, ones that could really complicate a presidential campaign if in fact normally doesn t go to trial, but if he were to be found guilty, there would be a lot of question marks legally about his ability moving forward to not only run as a viable candidate, but to ultimately serving capacity as president again. , funder my friend, i appreciate you getting up and getting a start at the sunday
campaign save the children, and all the code word is grooming children. apparently it wasn t saving, this rhetoric. you know, i think has a damaging effect on young people. it makes them feel like, well, in two ways, if a young person s lgbt, they may feel targeted, they may feel they can t come out or speak to their parents, their teachers, right? if they re not lgbt, they may feel that they cannot defend friends in school, they cannot make friends and their neighborhood. their parents may feel that if a child who s a friend who has two lesbian moms or to gay dads, they shouldn t go over to their house. i think that actually, i think that the effect of these bills, many of which i believe will be overturned when they go into appeal. in fact, some of them already are. some of them have been overturned, right? we ll have a lasting effect on children s life.
on day one of our hurricane season, technically was not even the first tropical storm this year, according to noaa, stub tropical storm formed in the atlantic basin mid january, it never reached name status. what s a reaction to the fact that the atlantic is coming alive? we have storms already in the book, and it s only june 4th, hurricane season runs for six months. yeah, takes me back to the lessons of my grandma shared when she said, when you know better, do better. we have seen the devastation these storms can bring, now the way these higher temperatures on our water, we know that there is some scenarios that might play out. we should give folks quick context, thousands of lives have been lost, we also spent about over two trillion dollars over the last 40 years. we have seen how quickly these storms can accelerate, just looking at what happened last year with iain. we should be prepared and make sure the steps are in place to protect peoples lives.