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The judge, appointed by trump in the Lame Duck Session in 2020 may make a decision on that tomorrow. We will watch carefully for that. But whatever she decides, that trial date will that have to go through a legal conduit possibly growing up to the Supreme Court best on another Immunity Assertion that trump is now making in that case, even though the crime he committed was not when he was president. How quickly will all that move . Heres the thing. What the Supreme Court has going for it, as an institution, by constitutional design, is that it is insulated for from electoral politics. Intentionally. We give the justices Lifetime Tenure in large part to ensure their interpretation of the law are not subject to the winds and the passions of pundits and politicians and parties and even majorities of voters. But that independents is a two sided coin. The flipside comes a dangerous deeper within the courts design that its independents tips over into a kind of reckless lack of accountability. And one way in which the Supreme Court of United States is just completely unaccountable is on the basic question of what it does and when it does it. With a few exceptions, like disputes between two different states over water rates and stuff like that, the court only takes the cases they want to take. They reject the ones they dont want. The court can adhere to normal procedure when they want to and then they completely break normal procedure whenever they want to. When they want to act fast they can act very fast. When they want to slow walk something, they can go very slow. Yesterdays one page announcement that after o and a half weeks of doing lord knows online they were Scheduling Arguments on Donald Trumps claim a president ial immunity from prosecution for seven weeks from now seems to indicate the conservative marginal court does not want to move particularly quickly and i would hazard that part of that reason is that to move quickly would be would mean donald trump would face an imminent trial for the insurrection he fomented and that would, i think, appreciably hurt his chances of being the next president. But if the Supreme Court justices want to move quickly, they could. A little recent context. I think its important. If you get lost in the procedural weeds. Back in december, donald trump filed a claim saying he was immune from prosecution for trying to overturn the election because he was being charged for acts he committed while he was president. And the district judge, in that case tanya chutkan, heard arguments and issued a very well reasoned ruling saying nobody it, doesnt work that. Way quote, whatever immunitys a sitting president may enjoy, the United States has learned Chief Executive at a time, and that position does not confer a lifelong get out of jail free pass. And then the special counsel prosecuting case, jack smith, did something a little novel and even audacious. Rather than waiting for donald trump to appeal that ruling to the d. C. Circuit, which is the next step up the ladder, smith said hey, we all know this is going to end up in the Supreme Court. Lets just cooling court now. Lets do it. Lets have it out. And he applied for the rare procedural mechanism thats called cert before a judgment. What it means is you can leapfrog a step. You leapfrogging the Appellate Court and you rush straight to the doors of the Supreme Court to save time in this case. And also because you know its going to end up there. And when he tried to do that the Supreme Court responded, no, no, no, were going to let the appeals run their course first. So now of course another two months have gone by. The Appellate Court has ruled unanimously against trump. Theyve issued their very strong unanimous opinion and petitioned back to the Supreme Court. What does the Supreme Court do . They say you know what, actually, check that. We do want to hear the case. Seven weeks from now. So the court succeeded in burning more than three months off the calendar. And i want to be clear here. Its not just that they could have gone faster. It is that another recent cases they have shown themselves extremely ready to jump in and snatched issues from the world when it suits. Them when President Joe Biden issued an Executive Order that wouldve canceled literally hundreds of billions of dollars in student debt for millions of our fellow americans, a bunch of republican states sued to stop the plan. They lost their lawsuit at the district level and they appealed. And then you know what happened . The Supreme Court stepped in. And they granted search before a judgment. Same thing jacks mitt wanted, to leapfrog the Appellate Court and take charge on an expedited basis. Was there something pressing about this case . Other than the notion that millions of American Students would have their debt canceled . Not really. It wasnt like a death row appeal. But sure enough, look at that, the court just could not wait. They couldnt move fast enough. They came together with a conservative majority on incredibly novel legal reasoning and they snatched back that Debt Cancellation to make sure that students would have to pay every cent of their student loan. They could not move fast enough to make sure that no one got their debt canceled. They were in a real hurry on that one. Same process played out in august, 2021. President biden wanted to extend the trump administrations pandemic moratorium on evictions. So in the midst of once in a century pandemic, you dont boot people with their stuff out onto the street. Landlords and realtors challenged it. And well it was before an Appellate Court, they petitioned Supreme Court for me the relief. They said we dont want to wait. We want to jump the line. We want to go straight to the Supreme Court. Just over three weeks after biden ordered the eviction ban, the six conservative justices of the Supreme Court sprang into action, quickly deciding the moratorium could not stand, but yes you can throw people out of their homes. Three weeks. They had to do whatever it took. Burn the midnight oil. Feed the clerks extra helpings of red bull to make sure people could start being evicted again. Those are just too odd examples on this court in recent memory. But its also clearly the case for American History the court can and does move quickly on a high profile cases with a National Political significance. Were tired about this case a lot yesterday. You know it, you love it. U. S. V. Nixon, the infamous case in which Richard Nixon refused to hand Tape Recordings from the oval office to a federal judge in the watergate scandal. Everyone in the country understood this was makeor break for nixon. It was the biggest case of the time. Those tapes could prove his involvement in crimes. And on july 8th, 1974, the Supreme Court heard arguments in the case when they werent even in a regular session. And decisions expected in a week or two, even before this moneys argument one justice was writing and circulating his ideas. Another had his quote prepare a draft opinion. With faith, the republican on the line, the court issued their Decision Just 16 days later. The president nixon has not yet responded to the Sledgehammer Decision that the Supreme Court today, which ruled that he Must ImmediatelyTurnover Tapes in 64 president ial conversations. What about bush v. Gore . Remember that . The recount in florida . Barely a month after the votes were cast, and one day after floridas highest Court Ordered a statewide recount, the Supreme Court stepped in. They granted the Bush Campaign an Emergency Stay to stop florida from counting the votes. Do not count anymore votes. The reason that bush wanted that was that the Bush Campaign was worried that if the recount continued, allegra would pull ahead. And then, one day after granting search in one of the most expedited cases of all time, but conservative court took oral arguments and began deliberating quickly. It doesnt get any more tense than this. The justices working for a second night on the historic decision. All this waiting for a decision on a case that was after all argued on you yesterday. The justices seem determined to rule on this case quickly, well aware of the Committee Deadlines for choosing president ial electors. Just four days after granting bias ingle vote, the high could permanently stop the recount and gifted george w g bush president ial victory. So when it comes to making sure that president ial candidate for president gets into office the Supreme Court can really move at the speed of light, cant they . The point here is that even though this conservative court seemingly tip their hand this month by sitting on the trump case for two weeks and then scheduling it for arguments way down the line able 22nd, they can still, if they want, to move very quickly. It is still on their power. And no one should let them off the hook on this massively imported and weighty question before the nation. With a man who tried to overthrow the Constitutional Republic faces trial for those alleged crimes, or will he not . Nine americans can still decide that donald trump deserves to stand trial to present evidence under our constitution, before a jury of his peers, to find out whether hes guilty or innocent of what he is charged for hundreds of millions of americans go into a voting booth and see trumps name on their ballot. Supreme court has the power to do that. They certainly havent shown they have the will. Congressman jamie raskin, democrat of maryland, member of the House Judiciary Committee and served as Lead Impeachment Manager in the second impeachment of donald trump over january 6th. He joins me now. Congressman raskin, i love nothing more than arguing against myself and ive been reading other people who say oh, youre getting wound up for nothing. They are moving quickly for the court. As a constitutional law professor, before you became a member of the United States congress, and someone with a vested interest in the preservation of the Constitutional Republic against its enemies, what do you think of what we saw from the court yesterday . The point you just made, chris, is correct, which is, when conservative republicans want some fast action, as own bush versus gore or the challenge to the Student Loan Debt forgiveness policies of the biden administration, the conservative Supreme Court justices move with Josh Hawley Type speed to make it happen. More [laughter] when they want to slow walk something, if they do in this case, then they move at this speed of donald trump sitting in the Oval Office Dining Room watching an insurrection unfold. So there is no doubt that there is political will being exercised within the Supreme Court. But it is certain point we cant cry over spilled milk. We have to focus the attention of the country on the fact that this is going to be decided. The d. C. Circuit court decision, we should have been left alone so it would simply stand, that was the right thing to do. But that decision is utterly authoritative and compelling in dismissing Donald Trumps absurd argument that the president of the United States or a foreign president United States can escape all criminal prosecution for all criminal acts including political assassinations conducted in office, unless he has first been impeached and convicted in the house and senate, which of course has never fully happened in u. S. History. So basically hes asserting guard like power, certainly monarchical powers for the president. They shouldve left it alone. And any event theyve taken it up, and we need to insist that the court render this decision as quickly as possible. Otherwise it sets up the very clear suggestion that it means to interfere in the case taking place in washington on the charges that interfering with the federal proceeding in conspiring to do so. I have to tell you that theres a difference of opinion about whether conducting that trial in the summer or in the early fall would hurt donald trump or help donald trump. Im sort of elastic on that. Some people i was just with, rodney davis, a republican, was making the point that donald trump loves nothing more than to play the victim and play the martyr. And so you could argue the politics in either direction. Theres certainly the substance of portion of republicans were saying they would not vote for president for donald trump if he were convicted on crimes. Of course there are other prosecutions going forward. This is a rich and wellthe beloved field now of crimes committed by donald trump. And so well see what happens in the political Hush Money Case in new york as well. You are point is well taken. I think youre right. The point i keep coming back to is that we voters have a right to know whether the man is innocent or guilty. That doesnt go in both directions. If the man is innocent of the crimes found rotary of his peers, we deserve to know that as well. Thats Important Information for voters if theyre gonna return the man to the white house. Well, yeah, you see that point categorically. Im not sure that we have a right to know before an election whether someone is guilty or night. Its certainly not a right in the constitution. On the other hand, the constitution does invoke the right to a speedy trial, and that is a right that applies not just to the defendant but also to the prosecution and the Public Interest lies behind it. I would say generally thats. Right speedy trial is a constitutional value and norm that the Supreme Court should be respecting and not interfering with. In terms of speedy processes in the opposite of them, theres a House Impeachment Trial or hearing that has been happening, largely centered in the Oversight Committee on which you serve as the ranking member. There is much about hunter biden. Correct me if im not getting this right. They want hundred biden to calm. Hunter biden showed up, they dont like that he showed up. They told him to go away. Then they said will only want to do it Behind Closed Doors deposition in today under biden did that behind yours deposition. Right . So now were all square . We are good . Did he admit to the crime of the century in that deposition . Now. He pretty much debunked and demolished every theory that has been floated. He kind of knocked down every piece of flotsam and jet some from this Impeachment Expedition Shipwreck that the republicans have left us with. It has just been a Comedy Of Errors from the beginning. For a while their star witness was who turned out to be a chinese spy who was on the run from the u. S. Government. Theyre original star witness im laughing because i forgot that my. Havent heard that name in years. Yeah, well weve got a dozen more where that came from. But of course the original witness is now in jail in california as a flight risk after being indicted by the u. S. Attorney special counsel david weiss, who was named