president has unbounded authority to commit crimes that would neutralize the most fundamental check on executive power, recognition and implementation of election results. and going on to say, nor can we sanction his apparent contention that executive has carte blanche to violate the rights of individual citizens to vote and for votes count. the court throwing out arguments he shouldn t have to go on trial on subversion charges. trump wanting to appeal to the supreme court. he has until monday to decide to do that. joining us is normizen and joe moreno. i m glad you re here with us today. we ve been talking about this for the better part of a month, norm, right? the fact it took this long is the surprising aspect. it was a 50-plus page opinion. are you surprised that the outcome was this after this month? no. you and i have agreed from the get-go it can t be right. it s contrary to the whole idea of american law that a president could be absolutely immune. if he sends s.e.a
raising a cup to toby keith s honor. thank you so much for joining, us cnn news night with abby phillips starts right now. where donald trump won t go, and why. that is tonight on news week! good evening, i am abby philip in new york. tonight, sources say there is one court that donald trump does not want to turn into a campaign circus. that is the supreme court, sources are telling cnn that the former president plans now to avoid the room where it happens when the justices hear arguments about whether his name belongs on the ballots in november. trump may want to stay out of the legal spotlight, but he cannot avoid the harsh glare of yet another potentially crippling legal loss, just today an appeals court asked and answered the airtight detail. the question with historic implications. our presidents immune from prosecution? the d. c. circuit answered it unanimously, no. the three judge panel took 57 pages to spell out all of the ways that the former president
Toss this case out, although courts do not always act as swiftly as the federal courts in new york have acted. so i think the key thing to remember is that nothing about the impeachment proceedings needs to await the judicial rulings. these tax returns will come out, whether they come out before or after the president is impeached is almost a sideline, not a matter of great significance. i know that judge katzmann s ruling was very narrow, and he emphasized that. he actually used the word narrow in describing it. right. isn t that a judicial strategy when you re handing it to the court above to give the supreme court a very narrow case to rule on? right. because the only way the supreme court could find any hook to reverse is by looking at broad implications of this ruling, but the ruling itself is so indisputably correct that no one
I think it will not take much time for the supreme court to toss this case out, although courts do not always act as swiftly as the federal courts in new york have acted. so i think the key thing to remember is that nothing about the impeachment proceedings needs to await the judicial rulings. these tax returns will come out, whether they come out before or after the president is impeached is almost a sideline, not a matter of great significance. i know that judge katzmann s ruling was very narrow, and he emphasized that. he actually used the word narrow in describing it. right. isn t that a judicial strategy when you re handing it to the court above to give the supreme court a very narrow case to rule on? right. because the only way the supreme court could find any hook to reverse is by looking at broad implications of this ruling, but the ruling itself is so indisputably correct that no one of the nine justices could plausibly come up with any
The arguments, you have judge katzmann with a 35-page opinion today upholding the lower court and saying yes, they must hand these over. and nowhere in these two decisions does there seem to be any space for the supreme court to rule in another direction. i think that s clearly right. judge marrero wrote a brilliant decision, making it very easy for the court of appeals to reject the quite absurd position by the president s lawyers that just being president means you can t be investigated, even for your tax violations, your criminal activity when a grand jury, a state grand jury is investigating the matter. it was an extreme position, and the court of appeals rendered so narrow a ruling that there is no basis at all for the u.s. supreme court to disagree. i think it will not take much time for the supreme court to