Harvard constitutional law professor Laurence Tribe on Thursday slammed as “shameful” the U.S. Supreme Court’s arguments over Donald Trump’s “total immunity” appeal in which the justices kicked their decision — and subsequently a potential trial in the former president’s election subversion case — further down the road.
“Much of the argument was quite depressing in the sense that it really amounted to four [conservative] justices — Brett Kavanaugh, Samuel Alito, Neil Gorsuch and Clarence Thomas — in search of a lifeline for Donald Trump,” Tribe summarized to MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell.
“That was embarrassing,” Tribe continued. “And much of it seemed to be kind of like a congressional hearing. They didn’t want to talk about this case. They just wanted to spin hypotheticals in the air and almost draft a new law for some kind of immunity.”
At one point in Thursday’s hearings, liberal Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson asked why “isn’t it enough, for the purposes of this case […] to just answer the question of whether all official acts get immunity?”
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