Friday on MS NOW’s “All In,” Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) said the Supreme Court’s July 2024 ruling in Trump v. United States created presidential immunity “out of thin air.”
Raskin said, “Democrats are on the case. We are trying to expose and counter every single assault on the rule of law. But obviously, the Republicans are still in control of Congress, at least to the end of this year. But if the elections go in favor of the Democrats, we will be able to counter this reign of lawlessness and corruption.”
Discussing the White House ballroom, Raskin said, “They’ve been monkeying around with the Supreme Court. So they try to get everything into the Supreme Court as quickly as they can. I do understand that this decision is not a permanent decision, but they’ve sided, at least provisionally, with the president and saying that construction could proceed until they study the Constitution. I’ve not been able to read the actual order yet, but I understand that’s what’s been said. Well, this is just going to be a seesaw battle between the district courts and the appeals courts, which are really adhering to the rule of law and to the Constitution. And then the Supreme Court, which is often just swept away with whatever Donald Trump wants them to see in the Constitution. The most graphic example of that, of course, was the court’s complete invention, out of thin air, presidential immunity from prosecution for felony crimes actually committed in office under the auspices of the presidency.”
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