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jacqui. supreme court watch as we wait for the court to issue new rulings any moment with 19 cases from the current term still undecided. welcome to a brand new hour of america s newsroom i m jacqui. and start this friday morning with you, it could be a busy hour, i m sandra smith, the court issued opinions in four cases yesterday, none were the big ones we were watching for. what we are watching for includes former president trump s claim of presidential immunity. shielding him from prosecution for actions taken while in office. the use of an obstruction law against some of the january 6th rioters and the biden administration s influence over social media content. also on the docket, fisherman are fighting administrative powers of unregulated, whether federal law can override state abortion restrictions forcing hospitals to perform abortions if there is an emergency. our legal team is standing by, shannon bream, along with jonathan tourly, andy mccarthy, shan ....
president biden was in normandy today commemorating the 80th anniversary of d-day. while he was there he was asked about something totally unrelated. whether he would issue a pardon for his son hunter if he is convicted of felony gun vices. here is how he responded. as we sit here in normandy, your son hunter is on trial. let me ask you, will you accept the jury s outcome, their verdict, no matter what it is? yes. and have you ruled out a pardon for your son? yes. pretty clear answer there. but again, this is a yes or no question. and to be honest, it shouldn t be that hard to answer. joe biden as president with the power to pardon anyone he wants at the federal level will let his son go to prison if he is found guilty by a jury of his peers because that is how the american justice system is supposed to work. now compare that answer to former president donald trump s answer. on trump s last day in office, january 20th, 2021, he issued more than 70 pardons and ....
The new york criminal case against donald trump was one of the four he is facing that will reach the sentencing stage before the november election. two of those cases of course federal prosecutions that will likely be shut down by trump s justice department if, it is a big if, donald trump is elected president. and then there is georgia. a state level case of prosecutorial independence that the doj can t touch and for which trump can t pardon himself. now, trump knows all of this quite well. he is doing everything in his power to shield himself from any charges regardless of whether he wins the election or not. he is doing it with the help of his own party in congress. where the speaker of the house is now considering a bill to give current and former american presidents the option of moving state or local prosecutions into the federal courts instead. joining me now is duncan levan. ....
And the ill gains that are being secured by a supreme court including sam alito and clarence thomas sitting on cases they have no business sitting on. i do see this extraordinary disinnocence with how democrats are approaching this as they can make up for their hands off attitude to the supreme court by appointing good people to the lower court. they will be reversed every time by alito and thomas unless democrats try the tackle this and impose real penalties on justices. as the court is packing like four or five terms wort of block buster cases into one term. i mean we are talking there are 29 pending decisions that we are waiting for from this court. 16 of which are major cases. the fact we have not heard boo about any of those cases, how do you read the court s silence ....
Done now. they learned the lesson when justice scalia died in the middle of the term in 2016 and they had to put a bunch of cases on hold and set the issues aside for a few years because they lost their votes. that is another part of this tactic is just getting this all done as quickly as possible while they have the votes. they have them now. who knows how long it will last but they will get it done. speaking of supreme court justices in scandal, tomorrow is the release of the financial records reports. wow, the reported gifts for justice clarence thomas. i don t know if you at home can see the numbers here. he is by far and away the person who has received the most gifts. an estimated $2.4 million in ....