Trump’s 'absolute' immunity case & campus protests mark inflection point for U.S. Constitution
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- This week marked an inflection point in our history, with the United States Constitution being tested in new and dangerous ways. MSNBC’s Ayman Mohyeldin explains why Donald Trump’s battle for “absolute” immunity and calls for a crackdown on Pro-Palestinian campus protests pose a direct threat to our constitutional norms.
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National Guard is NOT supposed to murder their own people
Neither are American presidents.
They did at Kent State university,
Are those who ordered them to be there in prison for putting them there, or even those who shot Americans in prison?
the police is not supposed to slam people to the ground for making comments. The police brutality is gratuitous and terrifying.
ASK THEM IF HE'S IMMUNE FROM ASSASSINATING SUPREME COURT JUDGES???
No one would be safe under Trump's presidency. If the Don decides he doesn't like the NDA and marriage agreement he made with Melania, she too would get a visit from the Don's Seal Team 6.
there is only one when your a............ DICTATOR
After doxxing the Justices, and attempting to assassinate Kavanagh why do democrats think the Supreme Court is going to do anything for them?
Good post. Everything tRump is accused of doing; his lawyers are arguing should be legal. How can the SCOTUS GOP judges NOT consider the facts of the Trump crimes at the hearing, but make a ruling on the hypothetical basis when the facts and laws are right in their faces? The SCOTUS decision should be a unanimous NO, a president does NOT have absolute immunity. The GOP appointed SCOTUS justices are an 'imminent' threat to the constitution and democracy.
What a stupid comment. Apparently the concept of presidential immunity is too much for your narrow little mind. It doesn't mean Absolute immunity from any crime . Get educated please.
I'm 72 years old and I remember Kent State happening quite well
As I do.
Same here. I was a teen at the time.
May 4, 1970
This is what Putin has done in Russia.
Putin's American headquarters are located in Mar a Lago.
G O P (good ole Putin)
Exactly, he changed the Russian constitution to allow extended presidential terms. I am disappointed this has not been further expounded on. Trump is copying Putin and the US are letting it happen. Time to build the Canada / US border wall.
Who do you think he learned this from !
Hello Hillary
The Trump attorneys are saying president Biden, can take out Trump, and keep it rolling.
Not just Trump, but the Supreme Court justices he thinks are 'corrupt', and anyone he thinks would 'corruptly' impeach him.
Man, the GOP just keeps digging their own grave
And trying to dig ours!
But they won't get in it!
Some call it a grave. Some call it a pit trap.
Either way the media keeps us digging.
meanwhile, back in reality fjb ruins the country and starts three wars, way to go fjb!
In that case Biden please do us a FAVOR
🤣🤣🤣
My thoughts exactly...
Cool. Then if the SCOTUS rules for Trump's argument then President Biden should have a SEAL Team visit Traitor Trump as well as the SCOTUS judges that voted for Trump's innocence.
Please let's not make a joke out of another joke.
Trump should be careful what he’s asking for….he might get it.
Are we shocked now? We obviously don’t learn from the past.
That's what happens when we keep pulling money out of the education system, cutting back history and politics from the mandatory classes, avoid critical thinking courses... thank the GOP. They have been taking little digs for years now.
fjb
Half of us don't even learn from the present. Donald Trump has hung himself with his own words dozens of times on live television by admitting to crimes. And when he's charged with them he denies them and his faithful cult forget they ever heard him admit to the stuff in the first place.
Disgusting police reaction; I don't agree with the protestors but the military response of the police is horrific.
Free speech, just not for everyone.
I am not a fan of the protested cause either, but I am equally not surprised that these police abuses occurred in Georgia . Republicans scream about their 1st Amendment Rights but are on a hair trigger to use extreme force to silence those who speak against their ideological position. This time it is MAGA Mike calling on Biden to invoke the Insurrection Act on college kids around the country, i.e. just like Republican Governor James Allen Rhodes mobilized the State National Guard to attend the Kent State University protest in 1970, which resulted in 4 deaths. Thank God that Biden is actually doing all he can to minimise the loss of civilian life in this conflict, and it would seem, also at home. He does not, after all, run Israel or Palestine.
Free speech, just so long as it agrees with me. Freedom doesn't work that way. Even Nixon knew this back in the days of the Kent State protests.
@@gnhonho Just like January 6th 2021? Nope. Free and peaceful assembly is one thing. What happened at the Capital building then was NOT that.
I agree on one point. Never should protesters be treated with violence. Biden should speak up, if he doesn't, then fascism is on both parties agenda.
These young people are protesting peacefully .... or trying too because that's their rights
First amendment only belongs to a select few *cough cough
First ammendment is limited to peaceful protest. Not incitement of violence, or terrorizing people. It's illegal to shout fire in a crowded theater, it's illegal to threaten anyone based on their beliefs. There's many cases of illegal protests, and these are not excluded.
Violence is seldom by protesters. It’s the force from police and the military that is the problem. Free speech! Free speech! Free speech! Our democracy depends on FREE SPEECH!
Sorry bud. Jan 6 Insurrection was purely executed by MAGA. Police there only tried to stop and contain the violence and destruction. Not all protests are peaceful.
Actually it depends on votes to support the free speech. Do what you can to vote in local politicians that will stop the gerrymandering. Demand the EC be revoked as it's no longer needed or wanted.
Yes, but not the freedom to lie and to defame with lies. Should lying propagandist media outlets be allowed to spew their hate and destructive bile under the banner of ''freedom of speech''? It seems that in the USA politicians are allowed to lie and defame without any consequences. The occasional lawyer like Giuiliani may be successfully prosecuted for lying defamation but he seems to be an exception. Jeez, even liars like Chesebro, Ellis and Powell who admitted their lies are still free and haven't even been disbarred. Freedom of speech surely needs limits, especially when uttered by politicians and lawmakers.
Just stay out of the streets
The question before the Supreme Court is: Do we have Equal Justice for All or Do we have a King or not? It's not that hard, just rule and own it!
I would have to add the last time we dealt with a man who felt he had an absolute divine right to rule, get everything he wanted, and have total unconditional immunity, we revolted. (That person was George III of Great Britain)
Killing a political rival could be considered an official act in certain situations..... Will someone please lean into that idea? Press the attorney to describe the situation where murder of an American citizen by presidential decree would be considered an official act. I didn't go to law school and I do not understand.
When you have a fascist government, than it becomes the norm.
Nobody knows. Trump's lawyer is talking out of his butt.
@@maplebones
Considering all the 'hypotheticals' out of Sauer, he should have been asked, "If it's all so hypothetical, why are even here talking to you then?" It's hypothetical that a plane could crash through your roof in the next 60 seconds, but does that mean the pilot shouldn't be investigated? Or the airline? Or the Air Traffic Controllers? Or any number of other things? Once you start to speculate, you can debate for a 100 years, and you're still no closer to reality.
Then again, this line of thought clearly appeals to the MAGAs. They think the government in a nation with a capitalist economy is responsible for inflation.
Can't think of any presidential decree that would allow for that.
Military tribunal of war crimes is another matter.
Stay tuned
It he gets sweeping immunity and gets reelected, no one will run against him ever. He'll have 100% control. We have to do something. Vote!!
What's it like being ruled by fear?
If there's absolute immunity biden's president then Biden gets to do what he wants! Before November 5 and can lock Trump up for for 100 years, cuz Biden is President he has absolute community Biden would have?
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@@sandyd3686 you have to be at least 18 to vote. So you won't be voting for anyone.
@@Blackheart-gw1qmTiny brain?
Dear God, Please protect America, protect constitution, protect democracy, no one is above the law. Amen!
🙏
Amen fjb
MAGA is made up of Christians, just like the KKK was/is.
Individual trump is a prime example of someone who despises democracy and freedom, but who loves taking advantage of it until having garnered enough power to put an end to it for everyone else.
This is what trump aims for, and he could not be more transparent about it.
Well said.
This is the same thing that all the "religious freedom" evangelicals and hard core baptists are _also_ doing...using the *secular* freedoms guaranteed by the 1st Amendment of our constitution with the end-game goal of putting that disgusting excuse of a human being - Trump - back in power, in order to put an end to REAL freedom of and _from_ religion for everyone else.
Trump and his base cult of followers, as well as the hypocrites masquerading as "Christians" in this nation are truly evil.
They *must* be stopped. VOTE BLUE!
You are correct and the people being negatively affected by it all can easily see this in everything they are unfortunately still allowed to do .
Nice buzzwords. So nobody was upset when Trump made a phone call about Biden?
They did the same during the Vietnam war. "4 dead in Ohio."
Those were National Guardsmen being used for something they were not trained for.
So, wrong.
Wrong. Those were National Guardsmen being used for a purpose they were not trained for.
That's what they're talking about .. sheesh.
That's Kent State U May 1970. I remember. I was a college junior at UNC. They stopped classes.
@@user-te6eo1gw9l did you get loaded on Jefferson
Crimes committed while in office by a former president has not been a major concern in American history (for the moment, we'll ignore "W"). . . until the most criminal president we've ever had was indicted for crimes while he was in office and is now fretting over being held accountable for them.
There need to be an investigation into those officers for excessive force.
Not just investigation, but charges, convictions, and dismissals.
Fascism has arrived.
..... and we are already in the judiciary phase. It's a playbook , always has been, and we' are working ourselves , as a nation, quickly through the process of a fascist victory. Make a plan to vote.
A page out of Hitler's playbook circa 1933 when German jurists of the Weimar Republic aligned with Naziism and betrayed their standards and lost their moral compass just like Judges Alito, Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, and Thomas of the corrupt Supreme Court.
Mango Mussolini has finally found a nation he can rule.
Yes, it is the common theme in both these stories.
Christians riding in on the back on satan.
Thank you for doing this and saying this! I haven’t heard any other journalist on corporate media say something the strong and I really appreciate it!Ⓜ️Ⓜ️
I completely agree. Very eloquent.
Peacefully protesting is as American as Apple Pie... Criminal behavior is not... Best thing you can do to separate Scotus from their political opinions is to vote
Part of the problem is Fox News will not cover this story
They wouldn't oppose this!
🇺🇸 BIDEN 🇺🇸
VOTE BLUE
Vote Blue across the Board! 💙
@high-intelligence111 Planning on it 🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊
Do not let trump thumb his nose on the time-honored Constitution by VOTING BLUE in 2024
You have no idea what's going on do you
@@bobevans9955piss off
@@bobevans9955 Need some cheese for that whine?
@@lidopina4334 you went back a day to find something to whine and cry about what a loser.
VOTE BLUE
Donald Trump no one's above the law
IF Donnie becomes King Trump he will be.
Then Biden has the right to get rid of trump his opponent. I support that Biden. 💙💙💙💙
Our country is in a mess right now we need Trump back your statement is most illogical.
@@pauldivito1900 Need more tissues for those maga tears!
What is wrong with the Republicans. Where was the National Gaurd on Jan 6th?
@@Lee-xf7bk
She had nothing to do with it grandma.
Stay off of the cooking wine grandma. 😵💫
@@Lee-xf7bkmeaning what?
@@Lee-xf7bkOr... Nikki Haley. Which is it now?
@@Lee-xf7bk
The National Guard in DC can only be activated by the head of state - which just happens to be the President of the United States. (I have to assume you DID know that, right? DC barely has any self-governance; even 'decisions' it makes in its city council can be overridden by the President. The House has control over DC's budget, not operations) NGs from outside any polity (e.g. DC) cannot enter that polity except by request from the head of that polity. That's why both the VA and MD NGs were activated and waiting at the DC border but were unable to enter. I don't like him, but in some ways, Pence stepped way out of his political boundaries by requesting activation of the DC NG but only after it was obvious that Trump wasn't going to do it.
@@jeffreyestahl Thank you for explaining. Vote
If that is the case, then the USA should have remained a British colony! LOL
Nah, because the right wing want an American to be king.
If you accept this BS, then the UK is more démocratie than you.
JAIL FOR DONNIE
8 years later, nada!
@@elderlymanwithpoormemory He went to jail remember? You should get that memory loss checked.
@@elderlymanwithpoormemory
C'mon grandma.
Weisselberg needs company. 😞
@@DarthSailorMoo was he your doctor during COVID too?
@@b.t.2795 Hur nailed my assessment
Immunity, give him an inch and he will take a yard, (example gag order)
TIME TO IMPEACH THOMAS.
Three-sitting Republican Supreme Court Justices were instrumental in the Bush versus Gore litigation that ended in handing the presidency to George W Bush : Kavanaugh, Barrett and worst of all the *Cheap Justice , John Roberts.
* not a typo
@@Smedley1947 I 100% AGREE WITH YOUR STATEMENT!
At least these mostly peaceful protest don’t involve looting and setting things on fire
Thank you fort speaking truth to power, Ayman! You nailed it!
Mike Johnson advocates what the Military Myanmar does to Myanmar university students!
The SCOTUS should not have taken this case. The District Court and Court of Appeals had already ruled against "absolute immunity." There's nothing in the Constitution that grants anyone with those rights. The SCOTUS are hearing arguments about something that doesn't even exist.
This would not be the first time the Supreme Court inserts itself into something that it was not asked to do.
Lock him up
Making sure trump is never allowed anywhere near the White House ever again, will be the biggest and most significant act of your lives. The fate of the free world is in the hands of good, honest Americans - those with enough intelligence and awareness to see how critical their vote now is. 🇬🇧
I would argue that the fate of the WHOLE world rests upon this.
So Embarrassing🍊🔥👹
Sauer should be in prison with Trump!
We're all trapped in Biff's 1985.
These people are insane
Mr Biden !!! You know what to do !
Shower with Ashley? 😂
@@sandtrapwarrior Keep cryin! Won't do you any good! Thanks for the laugh!
But there were good people on both sides😂😂😂
A load of pure BS which is what Dumpy is famous for
How can they say that? Someone needs to tell Comer that he wasted the whole term so far. The impeachment is a witch hunt.
I HOPE all the pro-Palestinians who've turned away from President Biden will get that a protest vote for Trump would be disastrous. PLS, for the love of democracy, vote BLUE Americans!
Kent state all over
Trump should be jailed
The march towards fascism continues.
SHHH
Donald Trump want everybody to feel sorry for him. But Mr not my president you would not be in this situation if done the right thing
It is so upsetting to see this happen for the second time in my life. I want to see President Biden do the right thing as much as anyone else but the response to these protests look like they're from another country or from another time in our country. I'm proud of these young people.
Not sure what he can do. These were state police. Kent State was the National Guard.
Vote Blue!
"They who make peaceful protest impossible make violent protest inevitable."
Exactly!
This country is going down the toilet
Beyond evil
We are very close to the anniversary of Kent State. I hope that tragedy is never repeated.
Well, if immunity is granted I hope Biden does the right thing....
You mean just like Mr. Potato's repeated defiance in declaring student debt forgiveness a second time in spite of supreme court ruling to the contrary of it being illegal to circumvent powers of congress. Lock him up! You TDS loons are hypocrites.
Thanks.
Excellent piece!
if orange jesus wins this immunity case i assure you there will be civil war...
Absolutely.
13 Supreme Court Judges!!
Ok Joe, get on with Trump is that threat.
We Americans need to calm down. If nothing is being destroyed and they are not being violent let them have their say. Its their right. The police can set boundaries and enforce those boundaries but then leave them alone. Protesters...you can have your say just be respectful. Violence is no way to handle this on either side.
It is unnecessary. Remember, reprehensible behavior like Jan 6 should not be emulated.
I agree. We need mostly peacefull protesting like the riots in 2020
So, in that case can Biden do that to Trump? Just asking..
Just askin. For a friend? Lol. Yeah. Go for it Joe.
No President can "take out" an opponent. Worst that could happen is someone could be tried for treason. But that would not be under the constitution that would be under military law to carry out.
Since we are still under military law during time of war.... maybe your wish will be granted.
If only we knew who was commander in chief of the Military.
We don't need Kent State again.
MSNBC, Subscribed because your videos always make me smile!
When will we stop giving Trump any special requests about the way he makes his own behavior! Come on people.
Regardless of agreeing with or against the polices that Bernie Sanders advocates for. He has been on the Senate floor and stating that according top ranking polls, more than 50% of Americans do NOT support anymore military aid for isrl. Problem is all the chairs around him are empty. Politicians are not doing their job. They are not listening and later will say, "We weren't told".
In a former life, did Sauer play the Dalek voice in Doctor Who?
🤖“Conquer and destroy. Destroy. Destroy….”
Ex...ter...mi...nate!
Ex...ter...mi...nate!
*Lock him up!*
8 years of trying and still nada!
Locking up a political rival to win an election. Sounds communist to me.
Need to lock Biden up for treason and not abiding by the laws of the constitution.
@@elderlymanwithpoormemory Two years of trying, and the trials are underway. Are you senile?
@@elderlymanwithpoormemory
C'mon grandma.
Trump can knit a skull cap for Giuliani when he's locked up.
Where's your compassion for Rudy grandma?
Where's John Hinkley Jr nowadays? Trump's your man.
I'm saying, Joe should try on Uncle Trump, and see how it goes.
Exactly
Bingo
And make sure there's nothing left. We wouldn't want MAGA freaks having a pilgrimage to his grave.
It's just a buncha gangsters. Fanni Willis has it correct.
very rich ones
From Australia, time to wake up good American people. Trump must be stopped. 🇦🇺🇺🇸👍
The only thing he should get immunity from is hid bid for the Presidency.
so you are a sniffer fan, ok good for you!
SLEEPY DON FOR PRISON 2024 ! LOCK HIM UP
PRESS NEWEST AND READ MY THREADS
Press NEWEST
Jeffrey and I like them on the younger side said that creep Donald t RUMP @@elderlymanwithpoormemory
Vote blue!
A lot of non-students attend these protests as well.
Them even listening to this is an insult. The justice system is totally corrupt from top to bottom. This country is ran by the worst people.
Go Joe, & get seal team 6 ready for action
Too bad Jo Jo thinks seal team 6 is a show at the aquarium.
A sad,sad time in America's history
SHAME, SHAME, 1000 x SHAME!
Joe Biden, "Four more years. Pause."
4 more years in the nut house not in the white house.
FINALLY someone in the mainstream media connects the dots.
Ayman is brilliant. Thank God there is someone speaking Truth to power. Thank you, Ayman!
I was in college in 1968. Tet Offensive! It got ugly on campuses across the country! National guard in tanks on the streets!
I remember.
He wants to be Putin.
The 2024 movie c1v1l w4r is a great insight into what Republicans and Conservatives are willing to do if Trump is ever imprisoned, I'll be sitting at home eating my popcorn watching and enjoying it all play out on national television. 🍿😋
Lol no one is afraid of Meal Team Six
If the supreme court is returning the case to a lower court it means that it is valid as proceed according to the lower courts rulings.
"Is your client not worried that a favorable judgement by this court might put his life in danger?"
Lol. No chit!
But....lets be clear.....attending College is VOLUNTARY....so when I went to college, I had to agree that while being on the University campus, I had to conduct myself according to University guidelines. Going to college is not like being drafted into military service. So, while I am in agreement that students have the right to speak, they need to make sure they respect University policies regarding their personal conduct while on University property.
Nonsense. Students have a right to peacefully protest. No university will have in their students handbook any section that prohibit peaceful protests. 1st amendment rights protect freedom of speech. This includes students at any university/college.
First of all, the media and social media are acting like a majority of students are protesting. They're not. Most protests are 100 people or less.
A chance for Johnston to flap his useless gums while getting some attention. A different take than what he had on Jan 6TH.
Polls show the students have the backing of the majority of the world's population. Not surprisingly most of humanity is against genocide. The pro genocide rallys usually number about 10.
Right-on Ayman ✊🏼Protests have (historically) sparked positive change.
why are you asking about trump, they are talking about the president, if Biden decides that trump is a danger to democracy, then can he legally take him out. That is the question the left should be asking the right wing Justices.
The MSNBS hypocrisy. 😆
How’s that 🤖?
THIS IS A ALL JEWISH CHANNEL
How typical, that should be 'an' not 'a'.
The TDS birdfeeder is filled again for the pigeons that are waiting at their keyboard perch.
I love the daily show
Yup,.... your side is getting desperate for anything to twist.
In other words,...
Watch what happens to idiots trying to end Democracy,...and the people who don't want you to notice.
@@Steven-re3tx Good MSM parrot!
@@elderlymanwithpoormemory
Said the uneducated cult member.
The cult is over.
"I am not fighting just for myself and my people in the South when I fight for freedom and equality. I realize now that I fight for the moral and political health of America as a whole and for her position in the world 🌎 at large."
~ Marian Wright Edelman, American lawyer, activist for civil rights and children's rights, she is founder and President Emerita of the Children's Defense Fund. She influenced leadership such as Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. 🕊
Kent State shootings - May 4, 1970
The Kent State shootings were the killing of four and wounding of nine unarmed college students by the Ohio National Guard on the Kent State University campus, when National Guardsmen opened fire on students protesting the Vietnam War.
Who ordered the National Guard to shoot at Kent State?
Kent's political leadership requested that the Republican governor of Ohio, James Rhodes, send National Guard troops.
Why is the Kent State shooting important?
Four students were killed, nine wounded, and a fissure exposed in American society that shaped politics into the Trump era. To large parts of the country, the Kent State massacre was a shocking and seminal event - American soldiers gunning down white students was unthinkable until it happened.
Not if he win. When he wins!