Newsweek - Donald Trump could sell pardons "for a million bucks a pop" under the Supreme Court's new presidential immunity ruling, a former federal prosecutor said. Glenn Kirschner, a Democratic Party supporter and frequent critic of the former president, said the High Court has opened the way for totalitarianism if Trump wins a second White House term in November. Speaking on his YouTube channel on Wednesday, Kirschner said that the Supreme Court's presidential immunity decision was a "staggering piece of judicial abuse."
New Republic - Despite the Supreme Court giving Donald Trump near-absolute immunity and the rest of his trials certain to continue after Election Day, the Department of Justice doesn’t plan to back down in its cases against the former president and convicted felon. A new report from The Washington Post, citing sources close to the department, said that prosecutors plan to pursue cases with a deadline of Inauguration Day in January, in keeping with the Supreme Court’s ruling that a sitting president can’t be prosecuted.“The Justice Department isn’t governed by the election calendar. Its prosecution of Trump is based on the law, the facts and the Justice Manual—the department’s bible that lays out the post-Watergate norms that have prevented it from being weaponized,” Anthony Coley, a spokesperson for Attorney General Merrick Garland until last year, told the Post.
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