Living with parkinsons disease. Richard lewis was 76 years old and thank you for watching news night. Laura coates live starts right now with a democracy. Well, the jury i mean the Supreme Court is still out on that one tonight on laura coates why well, its morning in london and they will woke up with the king, will guess what america you could be going to bed with one thats if the Supreme Court hands donald trump a get out of jail free card. After all, what is akin, someone who answers to no one can do what he wants it . Well, whos going to check them . Boo in a democracy . The answer is supposed to be the other two branches of government, right . You coequal branches, the whole checks and balances thing is all coming back to us now, right . I mean, its easy to forget these days when the Supreme Court Just Announced its going to take up the question of whether a president has absolute immunity no theyre not treating that as some kind of rhetorical question. Theyre actually going to he
Interference charges. Now, i will remind you, the court could have just affirmed the u. S. District courts ruling that, no, a president ial does not have absolute immunity. But that was not the decision tonight. And while hearing the case does not mean that ultimately they will rule in trumps favor, the highest court in the land just gave trump something that he has been aggressively fighting for, time. The Oral Arguments in the case have been set for the week of april 22nd, nearly two months from now. Why so much time . And after that, even in a best case scenario, it will be a few weeks before a decision comes down. That is the best case considering we know that there are at least some of the Supreme Court justices who dont agree with the earlier rulings. Otherwise, they would not be hearing the case. And if the court does decide to affirm the earlier ruling, as they should, and hand the case back to District Court judge tanya chutkan, she would need a few months to get the case back
Getting trump to trial for Election Interference before hes the nominee almost certainly gone. Before the rnc convention, unlikely there ta. So what happens now . Plus, a horrific tragedy. At least 100 killed according to the health ministry, locals blame Israeli Forces for opening fire. What are the implications for the wider war, and what about the hostage deal that President Biden had suggested could be just days away . And the political showdown playing out in texas today over the one issue that voters say rises above all others. Can President Biden and former President Trump, two men who have had their shot at fixing the border before, convince voters they can fix it now . But we start with Donald Trumps legal and political calendar being rewritten in realtime, with start dates for two and potentially three of his four criminal trials now up in the air, a direct result of the former president s strategy to try to run out the clock. And the Supreme Courts decision to take up trumps
This is is the Ingraham Angle from washington tonight. Know her name. Thats the focus of tonights angle. Laura remember after the death of George Floyd The Public was deluged with the details surrounding his death. And almost overnight a Career Criminal who resisted arrest became a racial folk hero and celebrated nationwide. Cities were burned and looted and joe biden paid tribute. It is now your purpose to change the world for the better In The Name Of george floyd. Like some others, i have watched with awe as you summon the absolute courage to channel gods grace and show the good man george was. Laura now, to biden George Floyds death was a political opportunity. You could paint police as wildeyed racist or have your surrogates do that pledge to investigate Law Enforcement and then you would maybe get more young and black voters to the polls. The chaos and the crime that his policies created would be well worth it. Women, fastforward to today. Less than a week after the brutal murder
citizen trump. the idea that an american president returns to being an ordinary citizen just like everyone else after they leave office is as fundamental to the concept of america as the bill of rights. we re a nation with no king. and therefore, even the president of the united states is just a citizen. no more, nor less. and as such, they are held to the same laws and provided with the same defenses that you and i get. that is what the three-judge panel on the d.c. circuit court of appeals unanimously ruled today in its crushing legal takedown that counter to trump s stated arguments, presidents do not have complete and absolute immunity from criminal prosecution. and thus, trump must face trial for his alleged attempts to overturn the 2020 election. in their ruling they reminded trump what the supreme court has already declared, quote, no man in this country is so high that he is above the law. no officer of the law may set that law at defiance with impunity. all of the of