Analysis
"The President Is Now a King Above the Law": Sotomayor's Chilling Dissent
Liberal Justice Sonia Sotomayor listed several acts that she argued SCOTUS has effectively sanctioned as unprosecutable exercises of presidential authority:
"Orders the Navy's SEAL 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."
https://www.commondreams.org/news/sotomayor-immunity-dissent?
#SCOTUS #Fascism ..
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