“The President of the United States is the most powerful person
in the country, and possibly the world. When he uses his official powers
in any way, under the majority’s reasoning, he now will be insulated
from criminal prosecution.
“Orders the Navy’s Seal Team 6 to assassinate a political rival? Immune. Organizes a military coup to hold onto power? Immune. Takes a bribe in exchange for a pardon? Immune. Immune, immune, immune...
“Even if these nightmare scenarios never play out, and I pray they
never do, the damage has been done. The relationship between the
President and the people he serves has shifted irrevocably. In every use
of official power, the President is now a king above the law." - Supreme Court
Justice Sonia Sotomayor after Monday’s Supreme Court ruling.
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