Today, SCOTUS hears Trump’s ridiculous claim of total immunity.
He's obviously not immune. SCOTUS is only protecting Trump and slowing his trial.
SCOTUS should not have taken this case or frozen the district court.
SCOTUS speeds up trials when it wants—but not in this case.
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…
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Mark Joseph Stern
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Here at the Supreme Court to watch nine principled men and women scrupulously interrogate Trump’s criminal immunity claim with integrity and candor pic.twitter.com/FGuNX9cj4z