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Hey ladies and gentlemen, this is Carmine Sabia for Explain America and Liberal Justice and Joe
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Biden, appointee to the Supreme Court, Katonji Jackson-Brown. She just got smacked down at the
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Supreme Court. Before we get started, please make sure you like, comment, share and subscribe
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Those little things really help us out and they help our channel continue to grow
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You know, if you're going to be on the Supreme Court, it kind of helps to know the law and it
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helps to not get gobsmacked really by an attorney who's arguing before you on the Supreme Court
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And that's what happened to Justice Katonji Jackson-Brown today. In her argument, she said if immunity was put in the way that the Trump attorneys want it
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well then wouldn't this embolden other presidents in the future to commit criminal acts knowing they
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won't be prosecuted? Well gosh, that is scary. But as Trump's attorneys point out, yeah, that's
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the way the country's been for the past 243 years. Now maybe this is what happens when you take
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civics out of schools. You get Supreme Court justices who don't know the basic structure of
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the nation. What kind of ridiculous question is that? His answer was beautiful because she was
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totally smacked down. Totally smacked down. She had no answer for it. It was actually a beautiful
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moment because it's good to see a Supreme Court justice who does not know what they're talking
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about actually get a lesson in the Constitution and lesson in an American democracy, an American
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constitutional republic, I should say. Now I've said this before, I don't think Trump's going to
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win blanket immunity and I don't think he should. It would be a dangerous precedent for the country
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Not for Trump, I'm not worried about him, but a president, 10 presidents down the line who could
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be like, hey, I'm absolutely immune. I'm going to do this, this, this, and this. That's dangerous
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But a narrow ruling? A narrow ruling could happen here and I think it should happen here and I think
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these cases against Trump should be stopped because of it. I do want to know what you guys
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think so please let me know in the comments. As always, please remember to like, comment, share
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and subscribe. I'm Carmine Sabia for Explain America. We love you guys. God bless you
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Take care, everybody. Benjamin Franklin said, as we view the prosecution of a chief executive
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is something that everybody cried out against is unconstitutional. And what George Washington
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said is we're worried about factional strife, which will... No, I'm also, let me, let me
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let me put this worry on the table. If the potential for criminal liability is taken off
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the table, wouldn't there be a significant risk that future presidents would be emboldened to
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commit crimes with abandon while they're in office? It's right now the fact that we're
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having this debate because the OLC has said that presidents might be prosecuted. Presidents from
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the beginning of time have understood that that's a possibility. That might be what has kept this
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office from turning into the kind of crime center that I'm envisioning. But once we say
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no criminal liability, Mr. President, you can do whatever you want. I'm worried that we would have
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a worse problem than the problem of the president feeling constrained to follow the law while he's
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in office. I respectfully disagree with that because the regime you've described is the
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regime we've operated under for 234 years. There has not been an expectation based on 234 years
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of unbroken political. Let me ask you another question. Let me ask you another question about this
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