As jonathan mentioned our special coverage of the white house Correspondents Dinner takes off at 8 00 p. M. Please stick around. We will have extensive coverage. On this hour, we have two pivotal events testing the bedrock of our constitution, threats to First Amendment rights, and to the rule of law. Also tonight from new york to arizona we break down Donald TrumpsHead Spinning week of legal drama including outrageous arguments his legal team made to the Supreme Court. Marjorie Taylor Greenes political standing, shifting from maga hero to. Lets do it. This week marked an Inflection Point in our nations history. The United States constitution being tested in new and dangerous ways. On thursday former President Donald Trump and his lawyers went to the u. S. Supreme court to double down on claims that a president possesses sweeping immunity from criminal prosecution. Basically according to the former president s lawyers his immunity is so absolute they argued, that even assassinating a political rival could be within the official powers of the presidency. If the president decides that his rifle is a corrupt person, and he orders the military or someone to assassinate him, is that within his official acts for which he can get immunity . It would depend on the hypothetical. We can see that well could be an official act. Well could be an official act . Just imagine how ridiculous that sounds here for a minute. Because, if you apply trumps lawyers logic they are basically saying, that the current president , joe biden, could kill his political opponent. I dont know, maybe someone like donald trump, who he believes possesses a Clear And Present Danger to our democracy . And, that could potentially be considered an official act immune from prosecution. Its insane. While trump is asking the Supreme Court to put the presidency above criminal law, the gop presumptive nominee is pursuing an even broader authoritarian agenda behind the scenes. Should he win a second term trump and his allies are laying the groundwork to eliminate internal checks and balances on the Executive Branch. A system laid out by the founders in our constitution, and instead, centralize even more power in the presidency. So on one hand, we have this top down approach to authoritarianism, where trump is plotting a dictatorship that starts from the office of the presidency all the way down. And on the other hand, this week we saw another attack on our constitutional norms. In the wake of mass antiwar palestinian solidarity protests at College Campuses across the country. Republicans began calling on President Biden to unleash the full force of the National Guard on demonstrators. My intention is to call President Biden after we leave here and share with him what we have seen with our own two eyes and demand he take action. There is Executive Authority to be appropriate, if this is not contained quickly, and if these threats and intimidations are not stopped there is an appropriate time for the National Guard. The National Guard in case you dont know is activated and commended the governors of their respective states. However, under the Insurrection Act A president does have the power to federalize these forces. Republicans are calling on the president to take these extraordinary actions despite the fact that we have yet to see evidence of Mass Violence or unrest that would justify such an extreme move. In fact much of whatever violence we have seen on College Campuses has been at the hands of Over Militarized police. Those who were called in to help disperse the protests. Images and videos of police violently arresting Peaceful Protesters has flooded social media. Take for example at emory university, heavily armed officers can be seen standing there teasing a demonstrator who was already handcuffed and on the ground. In here, you can see police slamming economics professor, caroline f. Into the concrete after she expressed concern at the violent protest of another protester. Justifying the use of force, labeling these College Students and professors as prohamas, or even terrorists. And here is what these protesters really are. Students and professors using their First AmendmentConstitutional Rights to protest the actions of the american government, which is helping fund what they say is israels genocidal war on palestinians. Students who pay thousands of dollars in tuition to these universities every year, demanding essay and how that money, their money, is being used, asking for divestment in any business that profits from the ongoing war, and an end to that war. And they have every right to do so. Public officials in this country, do not get to advocate for the Forceful Suppression of citizens just because they disagree with them, or even dislike how they protest. As lydia writes in the new york times, these protests have showed just how unsettling some aspects of activism can be. Pulgreen who has been reporting at columbia did notice anti semitism outside the bounds. It doesnt mean the protesters actions are misguided. These siegel these people seek a worthy cause. Just imagine here for a moment, if United States president , perhaps someone like donald trump, buys into this label being depend on these students, that they are, in fact, terrorists, does that mean the u. S. President with his expanded powers could use drones to attack these students the way we have been droning terrorists All Over The World . That might sound hyperbolic to you, but under trumps definition of absolute immunity, is anything truly off the table . So far, President Biden has rejected calls to intervene in these protests, but its not like the u. S. Does not have a dark history of sending in the military to tamp down campus protests. May 4th, 1970, the Ohio Governor at the time then called the National Guard to Kent State University in response to Student Protests over the vietnam war. After demonstrators refused to disperse, troops opened fire on the protesters, killing four of them and wounding nine others. Heres how one student described the scene to nbc news that very day. I know they, next thing i know there were shots firing my jumped behind this car, some kid yelled at live bullets. A car window shattered. And finally it was over. I got up to run away, and the guy says my god, this girl is shot. She has blood coming out of her mouth. Before, i was angry they were here, this is my campus. I have a right to be here. I felt like we had been invaded, and they were sort of pushing us around and everything but afterwards i was just afraid. So in the wake of these latest protests in the violent response from police, laurel krause, sister of 19yearold Allison Krauss, killed the National Guard that day, urged officials not to repeat history. Our institutions must learn from these past mistakes to not use militarized responses against unarmed, peaceful student protesters. However, five decades later it seems our institutions are facing this unprecedented test. If we normalize this kind of militarized response to Peaceful Protesters that are labeled as terrorists, if we continue to ignore why they have resorted to protests on campus in the first place and off campus, and if the power of the Executive Branch that we saw this week being tested so that a sitting president like trump is immune from criminal wrongdoing and answers to no one, as he argued at the Supreme Court, then what happened to Allison Krauss and those other students could certainly happen again. We cannot and must not let that happen. Lets discuss this now with jason stanley, professor of philosophy at yale university. Author of the new book erasing history which details how the worst fascist movements of humanitys past all began in our schools. It is due in september. Jason, its great to have you on the show. I want to start with the premise i laid out in these protests. You have some sitting u. S. Lawmakers calling for the National Guard to be activated against College Students, what does that militarized impulse tell you where we are today is society . Well, first of all, i would like to note they had snipers on the roofs of buildings in ohio state, and indiana, targeting the students. So, think about that. Snipers for peaceful protests. They are trying to set up the universities as the enemy. This vocabulary of universities being filled with prohamas terrorists. And we have been hearing this since the fall, since the beginning of all this, since the Terrorist Attacks on israel on october 7th. They are trying to link professors and students to the terrorists in hamas, and they are doing that in order to make enemies of the professors. As jd vance said, the professors are the enemy, quoting nixon. So who, they will be running against the institutions, running against the universities, and if americans dont think that our greatest University System in the world can be taken down, they should just look abroad at countries like india, where the best universities in india have got police invading them, tear gas, professors fired unlabeled as antiindia. And what we are seeing here is repetition of that. I want to talk to about that perception. I want to share another part of this section from lydia pulgreen. Whether you are watching Student Protests on social media or experiencing it in person the way you understand these protests depends on your perception of what they are protesting. And thats what i wanted to focus on, in that moment of perception, how much of the discussion or discourse right now, what these protests are about, and how dangerous that is for our response. To the point you were raising its much easier to justify violence against a terrorist who is trying to undermine your National Security regardless of whether they are in yemen or at your College Campus next door. Well thats what you do when you want to target people, you label them as terrorists, internal enemies, that is what we are seeing, the National Socialists declared jewish people internal enemies, marxists, they said marxists were controlling institutions, the media, etc. So they were legitimate targets. Now we have people saying democrats are really terrorists, democrats, the leftists, the universities. So they are sitting americans up to justify violent crackdown on universities, using these protests which, lets remember started in response to colombias president , making the error of arresting her own students over 100 of her own students. And that helped create these protests in solidarity both with palestinians and whats happening in gaza as well as the authoritarian maneuvers of the Universities Administrators have to be somewhat complicit in this. Speaking of, we are showing live pictures outside the Washington Hotel where protesters have been gathering outside. Others are going to be speaking this evening at the washington, sorry, the white house Correspondents Dinner. Let me get back to the point that i started this show with, on one hand we saw with the president , with the former president is trying to do with his power grab, with him claiming he has immunity, even if it was to kill a political opponent. This person has invoked the Insurrection Act to quell blacks like black lives matter protests. If the Supreme Court grants this president this type of authority, and he comes back into the white house, that we can see the unleashing of Military Violence against civil rights protesters or other Protest Movements in this country . These are antiword antiwar protests, just like vietnam, these are peaceful, less disturbing at University Campuses than those antiwar protests. And they are sending a signal of what they are going to do with other kinds of pro democratic protests. Lets be clear what the Supreme Court is considering. Carl schmidt, the nazi legal theorist famously said he who can make the exception is above the law. This is fascist legal theory 101. This is what the Supreme Court is playing with. He who can make the exception is above the law. Thats meant to make way for a fascist dictatorship. That is fascist legal theory. This is what the Supreme Court is playing with his fascist legal theory. So, we know where that leads. We know that means that there will be violent repression. We know that the violent rhetoric that say the nazis aimed against marxists, the jewish, and liberals are being targeted as marxists. So, so thats where we have got the fascist legal theory. We have the fascist rhetoric, and you are gearing up for the fascist state violence. Lets hope it does not get to that moment. Jason stanley, i really appreciate your insights. Couldnt think of anyone better to talk to about these developers. Thank you so much. Up next, justices, opting for hypotheticals over facts in trumps election aversion case. On medicare . Have diabetes . With the freestyle libre 3 system youll know your glucose and where its headed No Fingersticks needed. Covered by medicare for more people managing diabetes with insulin. Visit freestylelibre. Us medicare when my doctor gave me breztri for my copd things changed for me. Breztri gave me better breathing, symptom improvement, and reduced flareups. 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