Eddie Glaude Says Democracy ‘in the Balance’ with Trump Case [Video]

American democracy is hanging in the “balance” as the Supreme Court weighs arguments in Donald Trump’s presidential immunity case, MSNBC guest Eddie Glaude declared on Thursday.

The author and Princeton University professor was part of a panel reacting to morning arguments made before the Supreme Court in which the former president’s lawyers claimed he possessed absolute immunity as president amid his ongoing legal woes and dozens of criminal charges.

During the Thursday panel discussion, Glaude took a moment to step away from vote predictions and analysis of legal arguments and warned, “we’re at the heart of American democracy right now” with the Supreme Court’s coming decision against the backdrop of tension-filled protests across the country and Trump being the first former president to land in a criminal courtroom with his hush money trial in Manhattan.

“We’re talking about the scope of presidential power, we’re talking about the nature of separation of powers, we’re at the heart of American democracy …