{"id":121627,"date":"2024-11-03T15:11:43","date_gmt":"2024-11-03T08:11:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=121627"},"modified":"2024-11-03T15:11:43","modified_gmt":"2024-11-03T08:11:43","slug":"king-above-the-law-is-the-united-states-president-above-the-law-bbc-americast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=121627","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;King above the law\u201d: Is the United States president above the law? | BBC Americast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\"  width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/cQbGE8QdlEM?autoplay=1&#038;cc_load_policy=1&#038;modestbranding=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>In one of its most pivotal decisions of the year, the US Supreme Court has ruled that US presidents can have absolute immunity for \u2018official\u2019 acts.<\/p>\n<p>The 6-3 historic decision effectively strips out key parts of an indictment against former president Donald Trump for allegedly conspiring to overturn his 2020 election defeat.<\/p>\n<p>Three justices have issued a blistering dissent to the US Supreme Court opinion granting Trump partial immunity from prosecution, warning that it will allow presidential power to be used &#8220;for evil ends&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Six conservative-leaning justices signed the majority opinion, but the three liberals dissented, expressing &#8220;fear for our democracy&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>But how far could the leader of the free world push the definition of a presidential duty?<\/p>\n<p>On this week\u2019s Americast, the BBC\u2019s Sarah Smith and Anthony Zurcher discuss this question with constitutional law expert Alison LaCroix and Steve Bannon, former strategist for Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe here: http:\/\/bit.ly\/1rbfUog<\/p>\n<p>For more news, analysis and features visit: www.bbc.com\/news<\/p>\n<p>#BBCNews #US #Americast<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=cQbGE8QdlEM\">source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In one of its most pivotal decisions of the year, the US Supreme Court has ruled that US presidents can have absolute immunity for \u2018official\u2019 acts. The 6-3 historic decision &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=121627\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-121627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=121627"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121627\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=121627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=121627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=121627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}