Justice Sonia Sotomayor, who wrote a stinging dissent that was joined by the other liberal justices, warned that a future president could order US forces to kill a rival and get away with it.

“When he uses his official powers in any way, under the majority’s reasoning, he now will be insulated from criminal prosecution. Orders the Navy’s Seal Team 6 to assassinate a political rival? Immune,” Sotomayor wrote. “Organizes a military coup to hold onto power? Immune. Takes a bribe in exchange for a pardon? Immune. Immune, immune, immune.”

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    That’s the thing

    If he has total immunity, doesn’t it mean he can just sign into law to remove the dodgy Trump justices?

    The really sad part is that people on the fox news youtube are calling this a win for America.

    Their rights are being eroded, and they’re still brown nosing the guy.

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      3 days ago

      Trump stole money from cancer kids. I don’t understand how anyone can miss the slime dripping of him. Yeah, I’m partisan about this.