everything you did is not presidential, so to speak. to saying now the supreme court will look at how a case normally goes through to get to the supreme court. this is significant, ian. it is. i think jack smith s being very smart trying to make this move as fast as possible. you don t want a situation where like on october 20th the supreme court throws out a conviction because of some procedural rule that no one anticipated. ordinarily i advocate for the supreme court to do as little as possible. you want narrow that s not because i don t like the supreme court. that s good judging. you don t want judges to overreach, but in this case i think we want the court to give us as much guidance as possible as to how this trial is going to be run. it s an unprecedented case. right. it s a case where the stakes are enormous. the voters need to know if this man is a convicted felon when it comes time for the election and so i am hoping that the supreme court is going to tell t
simple question. it is a president of the united states above the law? it should be simple, you ve heard that phrase how many times? of course we say nobody is above the law, it is why the lady justice wears a blindfold. but it s not what trump s legal team things, they ve been arguing for a long time, along the lines of what you d call maybe the nixon doctrine. if the president does it, it is not illegal. you know how that worked out for richard nixon, don t we? but how will it work out for donald trump? well, jack smith does not want to disappear out and wait to find out. he is going straight to the supreme court to decide whether trump is, in fact, protected by the presidential immunity in the election subversion case in washington, d.c.. tonight, a preliminary win of sorts, will explain why. they are saying they will fast-track at least as a pondering of whether to actually take on the request for information in a ruling. let s read the tea leaves a little bit tonight bec