Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor said on Saturday that she hopes the court’s decision granting former presidents broad criminal immunity will be overturned, saying her colleagues have done some “crazy things.”
Appearing for a civics education talk at George Washington’s Mount Vernon estate, the liberal justice also publicly commented for the first time on this week’s midterm contests, when Democrats swept control of both chambers of Congress.
The justice specifically singled out the court’s 6-3 decision along ideological lines that former presidents enjoy at least presumptive immunity for their official acts. At the time, the justice wrote that it made Trump and his successors a “king above the law.”
I know it. Just making a point about how federal charges are pointless in the face of a faithless admistration.
But they do some pardon, perhaps, for political reasons, like giving license to similar elected officials to break the law. But one wonders if even then some donor has to pay the prez to 6 layers of shell companies ending in his possession.
He was selling them for 1 million in a firesale in 2020 after he lost. I bet it’s higher now, and a sliding scale for the rich notorious cases, like Zua or whatever of binance the crypto exchange. I bet he paid a lot. I think he got 10 years, or a ten year felony not sure which.