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“The court has always been subject to criticism,” former Deputy Solicitor General Philip Allen Lacovara, who served as counsel to the Watergate prosecution against former President Richard Nixon, said at the outset of the hearing, arguing that the Supreme Court’s July 1 decision inLacovara was a key witness for Democrats who have expressed outrage for months since the Supreme Court found presidents enjoy some immunities against prosecution, complicating the two federal cases against Trump as he...
Former Watergate prosecution counsel: The Supreme Court has “always been subject to criticism.” Dred Scott, Plessy v. Ferguson, Korematsu… all have been “repudiated by history.”The immunity ruling at the high court stemmed from special counsel Jack Smith’s 2020 election subversion case in Washington, D.C., which seeks to convict Trump on four counts related to allegations that he sought to upend his election defeat four years ago through unlawful means.
Sen. John Kennedy resurfaced that quote later in his questioning to law professor Jennifer Mascott, asking her if the Supreme Court ever echoed what Nixon claimed in his quote.Kennedy later raised a hypothetical argument about “ambitious district attorneys” in jurisdictions with constituents who disfavor President Joe Biden bringing charges against Biden.
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