Tonight on all in. A president of the United States has to have immunity. And the Supreme Court is going to be really good at it. The supreme will take Donald Trumps immunity case. This is a momentous Decision Just to hear this case tonight Rachel Maddow and lawrence on the Supreme Court their delayed decision, and what it means for justice. Plus, lisa rooney, and Kristy Greenberg on how we got here and david claw from the new political reality for an electorate that has stopped trump before. When all in, starts right now. Pierre i by a grand, jerry for his role in that insurrection. Well, today, in a single page order released a 5 00, the court agreed to consider trumps manifest weak claim, that he is immune from prosecution for the January 6th Insurrection because he was acting in some sense of his official capacity as president. But, the order itself is not the story here, its the timing it all comes back for the timing. Lets remember, the court case the trial of donald trump over h
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Against trump almost contorting themselves to try to walk a certain line on this. one of them, aswami today was calling on the other republicans to pardon trump if they were elected. what do you make of that? well, that could very easily become the litmus test. they can certainly cite they won t want to talk about watergate and the tradition of president ford pardoning president nixon, but that s absolutely going to jam up and make some of these republican candidates figure out how do you thread this need. and figure out what we would call a permission structure for those voters who might be willing to break with trump. and as we were saying with nikki haley, creating for people the possibility that two things can be true at the same time. you can love trump and be loyal to trump, but also want to support a different candidate for 2024. those candidates are going to have to increase the risk of
Conversation. so, nick, you bring with us the historical perspective of when the country went through the gut wrenching process of watergate. from what we understand so far tonight, as this is starting to come, out within the the most to you right now? i think that the fact that the president the former president has been indicted. we were not able to do that with richard nixon because president ford pardoning richard nixon. that is really the that stands out here. if we had been able to indict richard nixon back in 1974 and tried him for conspiracy to obstruct justice, this would not be quite the big deal it has become with both the indictment in new york, and now this indictment in miami. it s interesting. it raises a lot of questions, as this goes ahead. and when you bring that president, right? pardoned by forward, obviously, had been his vice president but there will be real questions, as we reach the end of this process here. this time but thus far, when you look at
Is this white house now hurdling towards a confrontation with bob mueller in the end? i think you see both with the mueller case and with this discussion of pardons you see the president and the white house laying the ground work for taking those possibly taking those steps. the president has been attacking the bob mueller investigation as partisan, calling it fake news, saying there never should have been an investigation so that lays some political ground work i think for moving and keeping his base with him if he did take these very controversial steps and we should remember that previous modern presidents have made very controversial pardon, starting with president ford pardoning the president nixon after his resignation and george w. bush pardoning caspar weinberger and bill clinton pardoning mark rich, so there is history of presidents taking the political heat for making pardons that for one reason or another they think serve the