Justice Sotomayor said, quote,

Never in the history of our republic

has a president had reason to believe

that he would be immune from criminal prosecution

if he used the trappings of his office

to violate the criminal law.

Moving forward, however, all former presidents will be cloaked in such immunity.

If the occupant of that office misuses official power for personal gain, the criminal law that

the rest of us must abide will not provide a backstop.

In every use of official power, the president is now a king above the law, unquote.

That's a Supreme Court justice saying that, not me.

And for what it's worth, Justice Jackson said the same thing.

And I don't know how this can be interpreted any other way.

I am so damn tired of being like to.

I don't think I can't deny it anymore.

You can stick to your story if you think it flies

But I'm not gonna buy it anymore

Hello my friend and thank you for listening to the 295th episode of this listener supported podcast called Congressional Dish I'm your host Jennifer Briny

and this episode And this episode, oh, this episode, so the Supreme Court issued a whole packet of decisions

in the last two weeks.

And a few of them are going to affect the way our government functions in ways

that I simply have to address and so I decided to just pop on here give you an

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