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All The Times Republican Supreme Court Justices Lied About Presidential Immunity Under Oath
A review of three GOP Supreme Court nominees testifying under oath that they don't think presidents can have the sort of immunity they invented yesterday.
https://abovethelaw.com/2024/07/republican-supreme-court-justices-lying-trump-immunity/
Yesterday, the Supreme Court declared that presidents of the United States enjoy total immunity to commit crimes in office without fear of prosecution. And, to the extent the Court imagined hypothetical instances of vague and insurmountable presumptive immunity, it deemed that any documentary or testimonial evidence with the air of “the job” cannot be used in a prosecution. In other words, presidents are either definitely immune or almost definitely immune and as long as the evidence is laundered under White House letterhead juries, could never see it anyway.
After the opinion came down, the folks at Republican Voters Against Trump compiled clips of some of the justices in the majority testifying under oath about how they would never endorse the idea that the Constitution would countenance such a theory.
So much for those words under oath. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯