Imal prosecution, there can be no presidency as we know. For 234 years ofmecan history, no president was ever prosecuted for h oicial act. The framers of our constitution viedn energetic executive as essential to securing liberty. If a president can be charged, put on trial and in prison f his most controversial decision as soon as he leaves office, that looming threat will distort the president s decisionmaking precisely when bold and fearless action is mo nded. Every currt esident will face de facto blackmail and tortion by his political rivals while he is still i office. E implications of the courts decision here extend fareyd the facts of this case. Could president george w. Bush have been sent to prison for obstructing an official proceedi oallegedly lying to congress to induce war in iraq . Could president obama be charged with murder for killinu. Citizens abroad by drone strike . Could President Biden someday be charged with unlawfully inducing immigran tenter the country illega
How long before they issue their decision . Will the case go to trial before the election, if at all . Terry moran at the supreme court. The criminal trial of donald trump here in new york. The former publisher of the National Enquirer, david pecker, describing payments to made to playboy model karen mcdougal, who clayed to have a yearlong relationship with trump. Aaron katersky at the courthouse. The stunning decision involving disgraced movie mogul Harvey Weinstein. New yorks Appellate Court overturning his Rape Conviction. The case that launched the me too movement, now likely headed for a retrial. Disturbing images of the Police Crackdown on Campus Protests across the u. S. Officers Tasing A Protester at Emory University. New propalestinian demonstrations breaking out at more schools. Usc now canceling its main graduation ceremony, as protesters face a deadline to clear out at columbia. Stephanie ramos standing by. Authorities investigating the death of a man following a confrontat
To have said all i need you to do is to find me 11,000 votes unchanged. I think if you look at that context it is pretty clear that petitioner is acting in the capacity of office seeker, not as president i am focus on the legal test. I am not hearing any objections to it. Other than i think the d. C. Circuit place more Content Consideration off limit then i went. I want to understand on the court immunity, or whatever word we use, it seems to me that we are narrowing the ground of dispute here considerably. Do we look at motives . The president s motives for his actions . For example, he has lots of power as weve discussed, but he might use them to enhance his election in his personal interest. It is not a relevant consideration when we look at core powers . I think of this more as looking at the objectives of the activity as opposed to the subjective motives in the sense that you are i think there is concern about seeing a electoral motive to be reelected as such. Every firstterm pres
Up my Constitutional Rights have been taken away from a. But every single expert, every legal scholar, ever respected scholar has said this is no case, there is no case here. This is just a political witch hunt. Election interference this is the way they think they will get elected but i guess based on what i am looking at john former President Donald Trump sounding off on his way into court this morning as a third day of testimony underway in his new york Criminal Trial. I am john roberts in washington we will be watching this for the next two hours. B2 what a day it is im sandra smith in new york this is america report. The prosecution picking up where it left off on tuesday with more questions for experts witness David Fentanyl the National Enquirer reported telling about trumps alleged affair with Karen Mcdougal and the efforts to give that from going public. John the manhattan d. A. s office also accusing President Trump of violating the courts gag order again as we await a decisi
One is first of all, to some degree this has already been a victory for donald trump because this has delayed the start of the trial by jack smith and as a result has put him in the middle of a political campaign. We have a highly divisive electorate, highly divided with republicans on one side, democrats on the other cheering for their respective squads and as a result, it has energized president trumps base. The campaign reported that they had raised nearly 6 million over a fiveday period leading up to this weeks event. There has already been a victory for him in this. My suspicion is the Biden White House is saying we want him to be held to some level of responsibility for actions that he took while in office but not as the president of the United States. But on the other hand he also like the fact that they are out there able to campaign whether as an explicitly political candidate or campaign as the president in his official capacity and talk about the things they want to talk abo