Even after having a full day to digest the Supreme Court’s ruling on presidential immunity, the Tuesday cast of MSNBC's Jose Diaz-Balart Reports could not manage to accurately inform their audience of what the Court actually ruled. Instead, guest host Katy Tour and her roundtable of legal analysts claimed the Court’s “circular” and “illogical” ruling held the Constitution gives the president the power to violate the Constitution.
Asking no one in particular, Tur wondered, “I want to ask one more question. So, and this is how I read it, you tell me if it's wrong because you guys are legal minds and I am, you know, just playing one on television. I read it as you can use it—they're reading the Constitution as saying it implies an authority or implies immunity to a president so much so, so broadly, that even his motivations can't be questioned if he was trying to violate the Constitution, so it was circular. Is that an incorrect reading of it?”
Legal correspondent Lisa Rubin concurred with Tur’s assessment, “No, I don't think so. There are a lot of things about the decision that are sort of tautological and there are a lot of things about it that are just simply illogical.”
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