the the, this is the, the we news line from berlin, the u. s. supreme court rules that donald trump is partially immune from prosecution. the court decides that former presidents have absolute immunity for official acts potentially disrupting a case of a leg just from trying system birth. of 2020 presidential election. also on the program. frances far right interest closer to power. national riley leader marie le pen urges motors to give her a party. a governing majority offer a strong showing and sundays 1st round of parliamentary elections. the

article for at least welcome to the program. we begin with a landmark ruling in the united states where the supreme court has granted former president donald trump some degree of immunity. based on former presidents cannot be prosecuted for any actions that were within their constitutional powers. but can, for private acts injustices overturn a lower court's decision that had rejected trumps claim of immunity from federal criminal charges? earlier this year the cord was asked to decide whether mr. trump was immune from prosecution for his role in the january. 62021 right at the us capital when he was president. the timing of this rolling is important because the window for a trial to happen before the november election is,

is narrowing. the president is currently facing 3 criminal charges. let's look at them. the 1st, as i mentioned, is for his role in the january 6 capital ryans, prosecutors claimed on trump sought to exploit the protests to delay the certification of president biden's victory. i'm from 2nd case concerns the classified whitehouse documents found in his florida home. our logo and finally the former president, an 18 others face criminal charges in georgia, where he's accused of conspiring to overturn his nero defeats in the states the one just as who objected to the ruling was sonya. so to my, your, she cried it as a mockery thing. the court's ruling effectively means presidents are above the law . in the statement outlining her objections, she rode the relationship between the president and the people he served has shifted era vocally, and every use of official power. the president is now

a king above the law with fear for our democracy. in a sense very mcdonald is a professor of law as a pepper don caruso school of law in california. welcome to the w now and professor . before we get into the details of the ruling, your reaction to the court's decision. as well. a little bit of disappointment because i think the ruling was a, necessarily broad. the court went into sort of areas of immunity for the president. that it just didn't need to do with it created and sort of 3 categories . one was car constitutional responsibilities for which the president is absolutely new and from being prosecuted for criminal acts that he took while in office. the 2nd is sort of qualified immunity or presumptive immunity for actions that don't fall in that core area where the president actually shares

power with congress. but even their, their president, again, is sort of presumptive fully immune for being prosecuted. so the only area that is clear where the president enjoys no immunity is for unofficial or private criminal acts conducted while and office, oops, and a lot of people are asking where that line between official acts and private acts can be drawn. how can an objective distinction be made here? it is very difficult and even the majority opinion written by chief justice roberts acknowledge that it can be very a very fuzzy line. so the court essentially said by any action taken by the president, that is arguably within the president's constitutional or statutory authority, arguably within it would constitute an official act subject to these immunity

protections. which is a, you can imagine is a very vast swap of the president's actions while in office, i mean, a purely private act, you know, might be the personal things you do while you're going to bad or getting up or something. but most of the things that the president does during the day or, you know, while he's on duty at night, are uh, you know, arguably within his official sphere responsibilities. yeah. just a certain way or wrote a fiery defend. uh, and she said, and that, and i'm quoting her here, a president could not be prosecuted as a result of this for organizing a military coup for taking bribes or even ordering the assassination of a political rival. the way you're reading that decision is that a correct assessment? and i think it's very, it's, it's, it is something that's going to be have to be really hashed out in future cases. but in this area of cor presidential duties which involve command of the military,

which involves a pointing officials where the court says that the president enjoys absolute immunity. i can see you don't believe that could cover, or if the president orders the military to murder a political arrival, for example. or if the president take subprime for targeting somebody, or before or, you know, takes a bride from a corporation for removing a bureaucrat that the corporation doesn't like the way it's being regulated under sort of the broadway with just the majority opinion. vellows kind of actions would seem to be shielded with absolute immunity, which, which i think is an extremely unwise position. and i do think it does go to sort of elevating the president above the law. and if there's one cardinal tenant in

american constitutional law, is that no person is above the law, even the president of the united states, and should be accountable for any criminal alas, that they commit. if a, if a jury of the americans are the president's peers, believe that the president was acting legitimately and criminally in a particular situation, the founders would have believed that the president should be held accountable for those situations. the liberal justice is on the court saying they fear for american democracy the by and can said that donald trump was today, effectively handed the case to dictatorship. do you agree? you know, i don't agree with that. um, there we have a lot of problems here in america with hurts mark receive right now. and particularly the 2 contending uh sides in our 2 party system. uh, but i think that, uh we're, this is going to be, you know,

where the threat to democracy really will be, uh, is it if we have continue to have a false challenges to elect oral results. so i think the big question about the health of american democracy will be decided in november when the board voters go to the polls and casts are valid for the presidential candidate. and again, if we see. 4 you know, attempts to hold on the power to subvert the legitimacy of those elections. when a number of the courts have sort of, reviewed the evidence and determine that there was no electoral fraud. at that point i'll fear for american democracy. but, you know, in terms of this particular, really we're just going to have to see how this very, very broadly word it opinion plays out in the future. i don't think most presidents of the united states, you know,

are inclined to commit criminal acts. that hasn't been our history. i mean we've, we've had some, you know, some instances. but i think the real threat to american democracy is, is, you know, trying to subvert our democratic institutions. that was professor very mcdonald from the pepper banker as a school law. thank you so much for sharing your insights. a. thank you. a quick look now. it's a lot of stories making headlines around the world. long time donald trump allies the band and it has been taken into custody of the u. s. federal prison to begin a 4 month sentence for contempt of congress. jury found him guilty 2 years ago defined a subpoena to testify before the congressional panel investigating the january 6 attack on the us capital and refusing to hand over documents to the committee. hurricane beryl has made landfall in granada after strengthening in the caribbean. the costs flooding and storm started us in barbados and st. vincent barrow is the earliest category for a storm on record. with winds of up to 240 kilometers per hour. it's been fuels by

record warm waters the death toll from saturday suicide attacks in northern nigeria has risen to at least $32.00 according to the country's vice president, female suicide bombers, targeted and wedding, a funeral and a hospital. now group has claimed responsibility. the attacks took place and a region frequently attacked by the as long as in certain groups focal high, wrong french president and money. and my call centrist camp and the left wing alliance are scrambling to find a way to prevent the far right from taking control of parliament and next weekend. the far right national riley party of marine la pen one, a rezoning victory and the 1st round of the loading on sunday. and even if projection show the national riley falling short of winning an absolute majority, many are deeply concerned. our correspondence sonya found the car send us this report from paris. there's only one thing the french media are talking about today . i'm back about this man. is all done by the law office of the shock blocks the

far right of this one. the far right at the gates, the power button a is the president of the far right national riley. and she could become the next i've been the sort of from is faulty. one absolute majority and follow me. it's something that was considered on think of with one, some friends, but today is a distinct possibility. it's a scenario that dispute some here in paris where the policy doesn't find much support. please tell me what. so the far right national valley and the allies are really security for, for us on the board for the president of the future is all, is totally forgotten. history. move it to the most depressing. just trying to get us to cuz i'm really worried because if the national riley comes to kind of, well, they have no competence in terms of ministers in order to govern fonts properly. they built a program for levelized feed, a full time. so the muscles to see them on the phone,

but the window you will show his incompetence. finally, people will realize it's not enough to just have rhetoric on immigration officers. that's not an economic or politically program. the outcome of the election, however, is far from such a policy is a drawing of strategies to block the far right in this we can run off there is a chance that no policy obtains majority in front of parliament. some fee of that could a charade. even more political chaos most just because you must push on the risk is that france will become ungovernable. although i may say on google boots dreams won't have the majority. it is exciting. and we might have to vote again because the apartment could be dissolved yet again, or tony with it. meanwhile, voters are already mobilizing against the fall rights. base demonstration in pirates was held right after the results of the 1st round elections, which the national valley would. for the 1st time. many he worried about how

friends could change the far right. comes to power. supposed to do to be the cause we need to mobilize and realize that the national riley is putting hatred and putting people against each other closely. it's really dangerous to build those with just young. i'm angry, like all the young people here, and just like a whole parts of the population by to the french will head back to the polls on sunday. in the 2nd round of this nail biting parliamentary election. and before we go, some sports news and the euro 2024 were friends are through to the quarter finals after defeating belgium. one. now both teams were scoreless until the 85th minutes when assaulted by french substitute caught on one knee was deflected off a belgian defender into the next france will face the winner of the portugal versus sylvania match. and we also know who that is because i'm fine for slovenia,

put up an impressive 5 for a 120 scoreless minutes, but it wasn't enough to upset the experienced portuguese side. portugal skipper cassandra, rinaldo missed a penalty and extra time with the score and no, no any made up for us a few minutes later and converted from the spots in the penalty shoot down so it will be france particle in the quarter finals. here's a quick reminder of the top story we're following for you today. the u. s. supreme court has ruled that former presidents are in fact entitled to absolute immunity for actions taken in an official capacity, but not for actions taken in an unofficial one in a private capacity that will extend the delay in the criminal case against donald trump. that ledges he was involved in an effort to overturn the 2020 presidential election. the highest course of the united states. a sense the case back to

a lower court. and with that, you're all up to date after the break plan is a looks at how about 80 percent of our energy still comes from fossil fuels and how quickly that could be changed on the go fairly. thank you so much for your company . the, the in charlotte, the currently move people the on the world wide in such a hassle it as a committed passage. gosh, find out about robina story info, migraines. why do? how many does not get drunk? why do grab a tasteful waves, squeeze all bodies.