Then Chief Justice Burger, no liberal, wrote in the 5-4 Nixon v Fitzgerald case on which Trump’s lawyers relied in SCOTUS today that no claim of immunity for crimes committed by a former president while in office would “be credible.” He was right. The justices who were eager to invent a sphere of such immunity today weren’t deterred by such precedent or by logic. They’re shameless.
692
5K
17K
703K
334
This idea of Trump-appointed justices, with no accountability, ruining America's rule of law to help Trump, doesn't work for a lot of us. This simply will not do.