appear in court, to hear their sentence, but is that something that would did cross party support ? well, here s what the leader of the opposition labour party, sir keir starmer, had to say in response. well, my thoughts are with the victims families and the anger and frustration that i know they feel at the fact that she won t face justice in the way that she should. when i was director of public prosecutions, i saw for myselfjust how important it is for families to see the defendant in the dock being sentenced, it s an integral part of the way that we do justice in this country. now, this isn t the first case, we ve had other cases, the 0livia case up in liverpool and other cases where this has happened. i think that we should change the law. we ve made an open offer to the government. if they come forward with the proposal to change the law, we will support it. i think they reallyjust need now to get on with it, so thatjustice can be seen to be done. that is the labour leader sir k
principally and practically. principally he s placed himself in a position because of the fact that donald trump has no doubt that motivation to try to make this political, to try to say that he is being attacked by weaponize doj, when you put the case in a venue like florida, you take that argument away. because now you potentially have a jury, and lisa has talked about, that is perhaps more friendly to donald trump. and so now he can t argue, well, the venue is going to be unfair to me. you re in a red state, you are in a state he won when he ran for president, you are in a state that you carried when you lost the president. the likelihood that you re gonna find yourself in anti trump land is lower than you would if you are in d.c., for example. so jack smith has taken that argument away. practically a lot of people may not know this but florida, on federal level, has a rocket docket which is gonna move the case up and exhilarated half faster in moving this closer to trial. so jack s
they were out there playing, just being kids, being teenagers. yeah, wow. what a loss. your first answer you said you expect a resolution soon. does that mean, sheriff, an arrest? oh, yes. i m counting on the arrest. that s what i m looking for, because justice will be brought. justice will be brought for the victims and for the families. and, you know, i wish i could give more information, bill, on the cases, but i remind everybody the integrity of the case for us is vitally important, so that when we do present it in a court, it does go before a jury, we have everything that we need to seal a case up. sounds to me like you ve got suspects in mind already. yes, we do. we have a few of them. okay. is an arrest imminent? pardon me? is an arrest imminent? yes. wow.
president presidential records from the archivists. former president trump asserted executive privilege, current president biden said i m not gonna asserted, in this case went through the courts. the lower courts held that president trump s assertion of executive privilege would not be maintained in the face of that but justice kavanaugh in and the supreme court declined to intervene, they didn t take the case up, but justice kavanaugh left the door open that a former president could assert privilege. he said it might be a dummy executive privilege is about protecting the communications between the president and his highest aids so that they can speak to him with candor, without worrying about those communications becoming public. and what justice kavanaugh said, and what has been said in other cases, is that that need for candor can extend even beyond the presidency. however, it might be reduced and even when there is a
i suspected either the vice president on his own or at the wishes of the former president, will assert executive privilege. there s a number of different things to then consider. so first is whether a former president can even exert executive privilege. the supreme court has never definitively resolve that, but they have come pretty close, and most recently, about a year ago, almost exactly, in the case of trump v. thompson, this was a case where the house select committee had subpoenaed president presidential records from the archivists. former president trump asserted executive privilege, current president biden said i m not gonna asserted, in this case went through the courts. the lower courts held that president trump s assertion of executive privilege would not be maintained in the face of that but justice kavanaugh in and the supreme court declined to intervene, they didn t take the case up, but justice kavanaugh left the door open that a former president could assert privilege