Justice Jackson raises a red flag on the idea of a president with no legal liability

An MSNBC prime time panel discusses the argument made by Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson that making the president above any criminal accountability for crimes they may commit in office presents a greater risk of mushrooming criminal activity in the White House than the "chilling effect" that concerns Donald Trump's legal team and their sympathetic justices.
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[@marissar.359]

The President of "Law and Order" doesn't want the law to apply to him. Interesting.

[@yvonnewright3449]

lol 😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@OtogiGaming]

So why don't they put this same energy against Biden when he had classified documents in his garage or when he gets his 10% through his son from Ukraine. Left sure likes to scream justice as the completely ignore their own corruption

[@sallyvarela]

How crazy is it that the Supreme Court is even having to discuss this!

[@vsoraya]

Justice Jackson is the only one making sense of this mess, thank you very much for your clarity.

[@davidhornbeck1470]

Friggin nuts that the other SCOTUS judges are actually debating this. Absolutely mind blowing.

[@FCLaney]

No it’s not! One of the justices wife was involved in the storming of Jan 6 and nobody’s doing anything about that! These ppl are evil and support it, of course they debate the sensible.

[@judybritt6288]

Judge Jackson was basically saying: "Power tends to corrupt. Absolute power corrupts absolutely."

[@kingforaday8725]

He didnt know what he was saying. Just reading a question written for him by someone else! MAGA

[@youreterriblemuriel5903]

@@kingforaday8725 Who is "he"?

[@HowardPryor]

​@@youreterriblemuriel5903 LOL. Typical...

[@kingforaday8725]

@@youreterriblemuriel5903 Figure it out!!! As in someone who doesnt know what a women is!!! Hahahaha

[@youreterriblemuriel5903]

@@kingforaday8725 I know what a woman is. But I'm willing to bet you've never been allowed to touch one in your whole life ... Hahahaha!

[@mistrrhappy]

The fact that this topic is actually being debated in the highest court in the land is an affront to the constitution and to the people of the United States.

[@AsaTrenchard1865]

And she's not?

[@pholland8353]

@@AsaTrenchard1865how so?

[@Dreidcs2]

@@pholland8353read it

[@DReid-ry9ff]

Exactly

[@robertsandberg2246]

Concerning for sure.

[@rm-jl8wy]

if this were a normal SCOTUS court, this court would not even be heard, it's too ridiculous! But again, this is not a normal court, nor are these normal times.

[@karencrowley616]

Thank You JUSTICE JACKSON.. YOU ARE SO , SO CORRECT !!!!

[@mikaelpersaud5094]

She Should run for President.

[@Dan_Gleebalz]

​@@mikaelpersaud5094🤣🤣🤣

[@janejones8672]

It shouldn't just be Justice Jackson being highly concerned with a President having total immunity, it should be the entire Supreme Court 😮

[@bernswonger57]

I agree completely, all they have to do is make a judgement according to the constitution. But at least five of the people in this court, are politicians masquerading as judges, they are ruling, not according to law, but instead there own personal convictions. They are determined to turn our government into an authoritarian type of rule.

[@AsaTrenchard1865]

Her opinion is as worthless as she is.

[@Jerry-up8bk]

EXACTLY!

[@ChrisChris-yr2mq]

how about 50/50???

[@THEORIGINALKINGCHARMING79]

She just should be glad she has the seat

[@johntomasini3916]

The very thought that a current or past President is immune from prosecution at any time, is absurd in the extreme.

[@SarahS1214]

She is spot on!! No one else has presented it that way or said that. What she said is the bottom line..period! That should be a yes or no answer…not all the long drawn out exceptions Sauer talks about.

[@dawngrace1317]

She is the only one raising flags then something is WRONG !!! No one has to be on the SC to know this is not even a topic of discussion.

[@jean-francoisdaignault9612]

“Raises a red flag”?!?!?? Folks we are way past red flags, she was pulling the fire alarm.

[@elaineprimo2163]

The Fire is already here! When The country look like A dictatorship, Trump is not The Enemy, And the World knows TDS IS BURING THEMSELVES AND ALL OF THE COUNTRY With HATE SPITE Bitterness etc etc etc go figure, People are getting sick Of these Nut eggs, Truth be Told,

[@MrShadowhideyou]

More like telling us it’s over unless we get rid of the other justices

[@TamaraGarrettAlpha]

Exactly

[@user-kn6vy5zj3z]

THESE JUSTICES OF SCOTUS ARE REALLY SHAMEFUL!

[@Realmusiclover1957]

No! Shameless.

[@davidgriego278]

Justice Jackson is Out Shining your 8 Senior Justices!

[@AsaTrenchard1865]

But don't call her a 'her', she might take it personal.

[@ChrisChris-yr2mq]

@@AsaTrenchard1865 her was not mention..

[@sheritacotten5293]

yes indeed so proud of her

[@davidgriego278]

@@sheritacotten5293 I watched her Confirmation Hearings. I felt for the first time since Thurgood Marshall; that here was a Person who make an Outstanding Chief Justice!! I saw the Three Trump Appointees lying, that they would protect the Constitution! I Grieved when Ruth Bader Ginzberg passed on, and when Justice Jackson was Sworn in. I Saw Hope!! You have every right to be proud of her!!

[@glenn7177]

@@sheritacotten5293 You're just jokin around .... right ?

[@JamesBach-hz1pc]

ALL AMERICANS WE NEED TO PAY ATTENTION TO WHAT THEY ARE PROPOSING HERE. THE FACT THAT SCOTUS IS EVEN HEARING THIS CASE IS A LEVEL OF CHICANERY THAT THE JUDICIAL BRANCH HAS NEVER SEEN BEFORE!

[@moogs]

And this is being debated? Unbelievable

[@sprig5173]

America is crazy! A criminal who elected corrupt justices to get immunity for his crimes? Insanity.

[@tich6308]

More UNBELIEVABLE Is Why Isn’t Cheetos trump in Jail Already????

[@yapdog]

Here's a redder flag: *We can't have 3 coequal branches of government if the president is above the law!* If the justices just focus on that undeniable fact, this whole thing could be done in 1 minute.

[@marialarrechea1686]

You’re a genius!!

[@omnipotent451]

Exactly!

[@michaeltucker7608]

Agreed. It's certainly hard to compare what would be a similar act amongst the three, but if the president can't be prosecuted for breaking laws, that certainly seems like he has more power than the other 2 branches.

[@marialarrechea1686]

SCOTUS NEEDS checks n balances too!! Term limits, something, because these “purchased” justices are co-conspirators involved in Trumps diabolical coup. They sold their voice out of greed and addiction to control. A treasonous coup that is butchering the constitution to fit their oath violating agenda. If it’s ruled broad presidential immunity is factual, then I hope Biden does something to violate Trumps rights since he has been violating the American people’s civil rights for years and years.

[@lightwillprevail]

Yes, there would be no more safeguards, especially the one they're trying to take away

[@shirleystevens5466]

SMARTEST JUDGE IS JUSTICE JACKSON

[@jsbuser]

If a president can order a military coup, there won't be a Congress to indict or convict the President. There also won't be a Supreme Court to have second thoughts on their decisions here.

[@SuperMrsMar]

And if the orange man can't get the Supreme Court to vote in his favor, he will follow through with Agenda 47 and do it anyway by ending democracy outright. Which is why we all need to vote blue and stop that from happening.

[@mitchhills4747]

God bless Justice Jackson! Common sense at last....

[@johndewhurst6609]

Justices are supposed to make decisions based on the constitution not on personal political or religious beliefs. If they can't do that it is time to devolve Scotus.

[@alanhowe225]

You sound like an originalist. I thought you people on the left believed in a living breathing Constitution.

[@AsaTrenchard1865]

She can't define 'woman' so her opinion is worthless.

[@beatzdoccrump1297]

True

[@donnabenoit4773]

Yes exactly, she is absolutely correct.

[@One.--]

Justice Jackson 100% spot on

[@user-rh4vp7fd8n]

Thank you Dr. Jackson- God save America from this ridiculousness

[@sergeant_salty]

Jackson is a true Democrat activist💙💙💙

[@jeffbarney1941]

He's not arguing, "I didn't do it." He's arguing, "I should have permission to do it."

[@felipeb.9321]

actually, Trump's argument is much closer to "i give myself all the permission i need to do whatever TF i want!" in his case, that would be a monarchy or a hereditary dictatorship.

[@SecretSauceyjuice]

Yeah it's more like "I shouldn't even be questioned for doing it". He doesn't even expect permission. That's a king.

[@elizabethcsicsery-ronay1633]

@@SecretSauceyjuice Asolutist king. Kings have no power these days and in the past they had restrictions on their rule. Most of them. Dictator is a better word.

[@JonathanB138]

IF POTUS is immune then what the reasoning behind Nixon's pardon for Watergate/other crimes committed while POTUS?

[@SecretSauceyjuice]

@@elizabethcsicsery-ronay1633 True. King in a more classic sense of the word, but dictator is probably a more appropriate term by modern vernacular.

[@woodywoodpecker8413]

As a European, I can only shake my head at what is being said here. Donald wants to preserve the rights of Putler, Kim and Xi - but if possible only Donald and no other person... Lock him up - Sauer and Co too.

[@phillipayoung10]

How can a court be split over immunity? He's not immune!! Video doesn't lie!!!

[@Dan_Gleebalz]

What video?

[@btcrazee1]

It is unfathomable we are having this argument. OMG

[@dinaf1409]

If you don't commit any crimes why do you need immunity?

[@fionaanderson5796]

He's not arguing he didn't commit crimes, he's saying he's so special they shouldn't be crimes if HE does them only when others do them, especially if they do them to him. Welcome to the double standards of narcissists.

[@Shadowx157]

​@@fionaanderson5796 sounds like a monarch

[@JIM4644]

Aha - correctamundo!!!!!

[@shenetheawardlow1033]

Exactly

[@fionaanderson5796]

@@Shadowx157 I live in a monarchy. While the royal family do get away with some bending of the laws, there is no way they'd get the sort of full immunity trump is claiming. He is a dictator.

[@tw4943]

Justice Jackson and Sotamayor = THE MOST QUALIFIED

[@debibelden906]

Jackson is not sure about the other one

[@xxjj4082]

The most UNQUALIFIED.. there fixed it for you.....

[@buddyguy4723]

Using the equal sign is so childish it's disgusting

[@xxjj4082]

@@buddyguy4723 says the likes of you....

[@buddyguy4723]

@@xxjj4082 Is define the word female

[@warrenlange9160]

She was the only one speaking sense, amazing, thank you!!!

[@judithmcdonald9001]

Yep. Kids will discuss this case in law school in 20 years. Whatever the instant decision, she will be remembered for outlining a clear message of the issue at hand..

[@brianboneslee]

KBJ was awesome and correct.

[@LydiavanderVeen]

America great again? America has never been so LOW with this Supreme court.

[@Atclav]

Yes it has. However as a country we advance and improve all the time.

[@PLP357]

They dumped Trump voters' votes while counting felons and illegals votes, which is illegal ‼️‼️‼️

[@PLP357]

They dumped Trump voters' votes while counting felons and illegals votes, which is illegal ‼️‼️‼️

[@d12tu68]

judge jackson 🟦🟦👍👍

[@judithmcdonald9001]

I love thinking how Justice Jackson's opinion will be read in the Supreme Court Reporter by young people in the future. She got it all in there.

[@mariavasilopoulos8496]

Yes, while she doesn't KNOW WHAT A WOMAN IS!!!

[@ginnyvance7693]

Biden needs to be put on trial. MSNBC needs to be checked out and they need to be more discreet as all they are doing is turning more people against Biden, if that's possible.

[@judithmcdonald9001]

@@mariavasilopoulos8496 The human female or a constructed reality?

[@robthatsme9831]

This is absurd. We already rejected a king.

[@analgas]

Maybe you shouldn’t have lol😂

[@user-fn5gx1ep6o]

Kings I believe are subject to law,this is arbitrating for a DICTATOR???

[@nicolasdibla1378]

That's right and today you have to fight hard against a dictatorship! Democracy is a continuous fight!

[@analgas]

Sorry what? And nobody said it wasn’t a continuous process. Thank you for playing.

[@abrakkehakka1357]

God save King Dark Joe the first Brandon! History will remember the first absolutely immune POTUS. The first emperor of America. Also the only one. After he canceled his powers after 15 minutes of tyranny. By enforcing an amendment that there mustn’t be any criminal immunity for the POTUS. “Congressmen … you better sign a law specifying that the POTUS may not commit crime… or I’ll commit crimes! Justices… you better rule that the law saying that the POTUS may not commit crimes is a Constitutional law… or I’ll commit crimes! I have SEAL Team 6 standing by!”

[@KleWdSide]

It sure would be nice if the entire Supreme Court consisted of Jackson's.

[@AsaTrenchard1865]

Yeah, because then they could all agree that they don't know how to define 'woman'.

[@KleWdSide]

@@AsaTrenchard1865 No, she just didn't take the bait... P.S. - Trump is going to lose again.

[@Kassidee_Skyye]

​@@KleWdSide I did think he'd would win the first time, but unfortunately too many have been sipping the orange Kool-aid! 🍊

[@kazzsolo8207]

No!!! A president should be held accountable if he breaks the law without extreme circumstances! No if ands or buts about it! And we need to make sure the entire country understands this!

[@genevabecker8441]

Again, I am a 70 year old white woman...and I am SO proud of the black folks who are thinking and speaking up for honesty...

[@yvonnewright3449]

Amen lady 🙏🙏🙏🙏

[@kingforaday8725]

Prove it!

[@jamesakers-me2rb]

Yes it shows they are really for the right one's and I'm proud of them telling it like it is in the majority states that are automatically stacked against white people like trump I'm glad see them standing with him and against the one's ruining are justice systems 😊

[@zemorph42]

​​@@kingforaday8725 Common sense, and if you need Me to tell you that, I worry for your ability to function, because I has little of that resource myself and I'm 52! Get help before you get scammed or robbed by someone you trust because they told you what you want to hear!

[@crensentiapoindexter956]

Impeach him and get it over it. This issue is a Constutional issue. Why is Trump above the Law. If he's allowed to run, Lord have mercy on America 😊

[@pageljazz]

This is terrifying.

[@kerrialexander4211]

It feels like Coup, part 4 or 5? I cannot believe what I heard today!😳😔

[@DanaAgenbroad-pw4zw]

Jackson laid it out! This is the whole case, not the mess the other justices made.

[@marjoriebreslin2995]

The greatest strength of the Democratic Party is stupid. People that media loves to manipulate the really, really dumb. People who cannot think for themselves. And yes i'm talking about m s n b c

[@marjoriebreslin2995]

@@sergeant_salty DEI It's not what between your ears. It's the color of your skin that gets you job.

[@aishabintabubakr4944]

​@@marjoriebreslin2995 You should add in WHAT''S NOT between your legs to your definition to be more inclusive

[@kingforaday8725]

Who wrote the questions she is asking? I dont believe she has the intelligence to even understand it!!!!

[@elizabethcsicsery-ronay1633]

@@kingforaday8725 You guys criticising Jackson are dangerous clowns. She was the sanest of the lot.

[@Sano417]

I can’t believe the US Supreme Court is even spending time and taxpayers money discussing if a president should be immune from ANY prosecution 😮.

[@maxxinethewoopitcher]

A Black woman trying her best to save this planet, one intelligent conversation at a time.

[@OtogiGaming]

What does skin color have to do with anything? You racist or something?

[@jon9103]

Meanwhile the corrupt Alito doesn't want to get into facts.

[@AsaTrenchard1865]

As opposed to someone who can't define 'woman'?

[@jon9103]

@@AsaTrenchard1865 easily distracted , I see.

[@Bystander333]

It is bizare to even consider America is having this debate. This is one step from the brink.

[@kendricklewis4947]

Don’t know why people are so surprised that the hearings went the way they did? When they said that they would hear the case,that told us that this was going to happen…🤔🤔

[@johnmboon]

Hey, Trump campaigned hard in 2016, shouting "Nobody is above the law, NOBODY!" Why aren't all the videos of this being played to SCOTUS?

[@sprig5173]

And Fox agreed that having a candidate under indictment would be very bad.

[@valmikii4013]

Him yelling that ought not affect a courtroom. But the MEDIA ought to show them before any coverage of this stupid nonsense.

[@hannahrose5739]

Good point. And sky-written, while they're at it.

[@Jc-sd5xt]

You'll still failing to understand this opp started decades ago 🤔

[@Segalmed]

Let's find out, whether his mother had the maiden name "Nobody" and he will switch to that in case of emergency.

[@synchronium24]

No kidding. "We won't indict a sitting president" was a mistake from the start.

[@user-fn5gx1ep6o]

All stemming from Nixon being pardoned.

[@poppyseeds1844]

Justice Jackson is the only one I have heard (I have not heard it all) who went to the specific case.

[@perrybernard1308]

Why have a Supreme Court if a president can do whatever they want?

[@smilingfox8978]

It is a pathetic waste of time and intelligence that we are even having such a ridiculous conversation. This whole mess makes me ashamed and embarrassed to be an American.

[@valmikii4013]

Well put and right on! Thank you.

[@SeamyEmail]

We hear you brother.

[@pansepot1490]

“Pathetic” and “ridiculous” are woefully inadequate adjectives. Disturbing and dangerous rather. Already this SCOTUS has allowed for women to be stripped of some of their most basic rights and now they are moving to make an insurrectionist not punishable and dictatorship legal. Not a time to be dismissive when our democracy and our rights are under attack.

[@ik7482]

💯 % exactly spot on.

[@jananders1351]

How far SCOTUS has fallen and how far SCOTUS is dragging the reputation of the USA down with them.

[@JoJo-Mo-63]

Thank you Justice Jackson!

[@user-wb7ob7fx6y]

Listen to Justice Jackson. She and two more are the only true ones

[@cathyadams7288]

Justice Jackson is Brilliant!

[@terri917441]

How is instigating an insurrection a presidential official act?

[@cindymcdonald4302]

It's not. That's what these justices need to understand. First get there faces out of Trump's backside, and do their job. Quite passing the buck

[@ln8116]

Wow, a Justice with morals!!!!

[@alortizdiaz44]

We need more justices like Justice Jackson in the Supreme Court! God bless Justice Jackson!

[@monokai3570]

Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson = Truth speaking, democracy defending, LEGEND!

[@maxinemcnealy1975]

Great Red Flag madam justice! Put the truth before the supporters with understanding they don’t want to see or hear. Thank You!

[@rafaelhoa4000]

Kudos to the newest Justice. Well said. Ted Cruz should eat his shoe because he had opposed her in the confirmation hearings.

[@grandpoohbah1037]

Indecent ALWAYS opposes decent.

[@ik7482]

Ted Cruz would help everyone by taking a long walk on a short pier.

[@kingforaday8725]

You mean the most incompetent justice in history?

[@josephlogan7639]

Justice Jackson said exactly what I and many others were thinking. She said it in such an eloquent way. So glad that she is on the court but with the other Justices with a political agenda it seems to spell the end of American democracy

[@bufordfrance8058]

"an eloquent way" I have high school students that have a better vocabulary than this hair weave yapping DEI plant.

[@dianemeyer6245]

Justice Jackson Hit the a nail on the Head. Newest and Best.

[@mellowmelee5024]

In 2024 SCOTUS is seriously debating that a lawless king is preferable to an accountable president?! This country has wandered so far off course, we are headed right back to what we were running from in the first place.

[@HowardPryor]

Exactly. This shouldn't even be up for debate. Isn't this what the founding fathers wrote the constitution to keep from happening? They're rolling over in their graves. Smfh.

[@AsaTrenchard1865]

Fear not, this is the year of reckoning 👍 The future belongs to those of us still willing to get our hands dirty. Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country 🇺🇸

[@ShebrewQueen]

This country started of course.

[@dillonwilliams4416]

@@AsaTrenchard1865what do you mean by this and for research purposes, where were you on January 6, 2021? 👀

[@jasperwhale1]

@@AsaTrenchard1865you’ll get your physical hands dirty EVERYTIME; yet when it comes to your mental/emotional hands you barely know how to raise a finger. Evolve or be left behind.

[@jennifertate4397]

There should be NO QUESTION about the fact that a U.S. president DOES NOT have unrestricted immunity!!! The SCOTUS should have thrown that one out!!!

[@pedigreeann]

They should have declined to take the case and let the well-argued appellate court verdict stand.

[@jennifertate4397]

@@pedigreeann Agreed. I wonder what the SCOTUS 6 is really up to.

[@BernadetteSunset]

You must use the term alleged.. obviously it hasnt been tried yet.. they CANT determine that those acts are anything but alleged.. so to act like them saying that is some ploy is just wrong. Stop makinh lur judicial system look like a biased joke!

[@michaeld4861]

@@jennifertate4397 Delay and usher in fascism and possibly declaring Trump god-king.

[@jennifertate4397]

@@michaeld4861 Why him? He'd be the STOOOPIDIST god-king that ever lived. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@tracyj2886]

I love her🎉 she is right on. It would be a seat of criminality. Just what citizen 45 would like.

[@user-iv7pl2uo7q]

When is "conservative" replaced with "fascist"??

[@ik7482]

God that lawyers voice. That sounds like a gargoyle. thank you, Justice Jackson! finally a Supreme Justice making SENSE.

[@AsaTrenchard1865]

Yeah, cuz she totally botched that one about women.

[@ShebrewQueen]

Don’t insult the gargoyles. 😅😅😅

[@Jerry-up8bk]

His voice sounds like RFK Jr's! Who has a RARE Esophagus disease!

[@Jerry-up8bk]

It sounds like spasmodic Dysphonia like RFK Jr's voice! A Neurological Issue! NOT Esophagus related ! I had to GOOGLE IT 😂LOL

[@themousethatroared3371]

He sounds like Piglet from Winnie the Poo.

[@scottjohnson4797]

Aiding and abetting a insurrectionist! The Supreme Court is in contempt of the constitution, trying to find a loophole

[@muddywater4505]

There is no lawsuit against Trump that mentions insurrection. (Fact)

[@Godseesall-jr7sg]

They have been since they got rid of row

[@Jorgem1010]

Insurrection that couldn’t even be prove or hold up In Court? Aren’t you a genius

[@SeamyEmail]

@@Jorgem1010 For sure ! You be prove you not.

[@MySerpentine]

@@Jorgem1010 We're getting there, even with an incredible degree of corruption.

[@sheilawade433]

Justice Jackson should be the next Chief Justice.

[@rawlsartgallery360]

This court is an embarrassment. They would give us a king.

[@felipeb.9321]

which is essentially a hereditary dictatorship with absolute power (e.g. Kim Jong Un and pretty much all of european royalty up to WWI)

[@joozimek9643]

King Charles has NO political power . It is the British GOVERMENT that rules England .

[@erikvangelder6671]

Worse! I'm living in Europe. Our King wouldn't be able to do what Trump did, and get away with it like Trump does. It is as tragic as it is interesting (from a historical point of view) to see democracy deteriorating in the US so fast, and at almost every level. Be not mistaken: No matter how US still believes it is, or at least presents itself as 'the greatest democracy', it isn't. Not by a longshot, and I even doubt it will be a democracy at all, by the end of this year. Sad.

[@loue-black]

No a Dictator that would have no need of a court...

[@jmb3608]

@@loue-blackWhich is actually completely stupid. But they don’t seem to care, do they? Most of them will be able to retire then, mission accomplished.

[@pwp8737]

I can't believe that we as a country are having these conversations. This is f**kin' unbelievable.

[@DaveMace-ux9cm]

No one should be given the power to commit crimes without consequences. There's a reason why we have guardrails and traffic control devices on freeways.

[@justgivemethetruth]

Jackson sounds like one of the few sane voices on the SC.

[@CrazyTeacherNick]

Watching Democracy die. 😪

[@ronaldgrove3283]

Hey I I seen that Star War Movie ! "Revenge of the Sith" , correct ?

[@oceanecastelnau9821]

Not if everyone votes 👊🇺🇲🗽🇺🇲🔥

[@FredColberg-jk5yp]

Justice Jackson stepped up to the plate today along with a couple others the rest showed their crooked intentions.

[@cynthiag6243]

AMEN

[@penelopesimpsonadams624]

We nee more Justice Jackson's who uphold our laws at the highest level!! Where are they?

[@Julian198-hv2zx]

@@penelopesimpsonadams624 Sleeping on democracy🇺🇸

[@fionaanderson5796]

@@penelopesimpsonadams624 blocked from the nomination by a corrupt senate.

[@user-fk8qo8zv1z]

What is a woman?

[@veronicaa.2569]

ABSOUTLEY RIDICULOUS how these people will bend over backwards and break/bend the LAWS so this CON MAN can get his way...just Maddening 🤬🤬🤬🤬

[@e.8756]

It’s unbelievable that the Supreme Court is even hearing this. Shame on those partisan justices, they should be stripped of their positions.

[@meliacogan1586]

Thank you Justice Jackson

[@mac888spectral7]

How is Clarence Thomas even still a judge? That sleaze has been clouded in controversy since my high school days and I'm pushing 50.

[@mile_high_topher]

Because Trump took the bar and buried it in the core of the planet. Not even James Cameron can raise it.

[@muddywater4505]

Does crying help you with the pain?

[@Thadmotor1044]

Thomas grifter most corrupt Justice in US history . Wife Ginni , effin warbag Insurrectionist , Seditionist traitor

[@liamgross7217]

@@muddywater4505nar let him have immunity and Joe can call in a hit on him before the election. Problem solved.

[@basilmcdonnell9807]

I can still hear him carefully speaking his scripted line about "this high tech lynching." With the voice of someone tossing it out there to see if it would work.

[@speakeasy911]

Jackson is sounding the alarm without sounding the alarm!

[@user-sk7ys8on6x]

People in high powerful places get away with crimes, people in low places get convicted for survival. Our systems are designed to keep us like that.

[@Swnsasy]

Raskin is right, those other Justices should just move into the Republican building because they are political, not judicial... KBJ was so spot on! That lawyer is ridiculous.. Presidents should not be above the law! This is so insane the 4 political people of the court even wanted this.. Insane!

[@j_a_n_i_c.]

Sauer spouted such meaningless crap today. This should be a simple NO to presidential immunity.🙄What a waste of time and hot air.

[@sandraperera3573]

Exactly! What's Ben Franklin and George Washington got to do with what's happening now. They are a long time gone!

[@velociraptor6124]

They could have just let the lower court ruling stand...Takes 5 minutes to do. Or 10 minutes to to tell Lord Trumpolini sorry you are not a God King and this is not the movie 300, anyway SCOTUM and Co. can't do anything to help with state charges. Finally only the Cult believes he will win 2024........

[@andyronayne7947]

I can’t stand his voice, nor his tortured logic, if you can call it that.

[@abbygaileallbright0620]

@@andyronayne7947me neither! 🤦🏽‍♀️

[@MonsieurDrobot]

You clearly support filth. Turning a blind eye to corruption in the White House while screaming orange man bad

[@johnvanlare]

What country am I living in right now? What planet are these judges from? Nine people with lifetime appointments and who are THEY answering to? Talk about absolute immunity! REALLY????

[@Kassidee_Skyye]

This is so disturbing, I never thought democracy would be in jeopardy!😳

[@Tessmage_Tessera]

I can't even believe we're having a debate about this.

[@philthai99]

Justice Jackson is awesome. She speaks the real truth.

[@Mark-if1yu]

That the problem with all you people what you care about is your fleeings. Miss Jackson doesn't get to rewrite the United states constitution she there to uphold it. It's ridiculous to think the founding fathers did see this happening and by mistake given Congress the power of impeachment and the Senate the power of trial and conviction. The fact that this is in the supreme court alone is an Abomination. And one step closer to the end of America. God in his wisdom said he who hate is brother is a merder. You people hated of Trump dressed up as he just a terrible human is deplorable. The United states constitution begins with we the people. Government is naver to be considered the people. So it's our government that we must now fear. Let the American people determine the fate if the president in November. Because let face the fact no president in American history was worthy of the presidency. That God America is not a democracy or Triump would have never become president or if he did wouldn't serve all his term because he would be in a prison or dead. That what people do in democracy that why all you Democrats keep talking about democracy because you know you can become dictators. So miss Jackson is say what she would like to see not what the constitution say. She's an unelected burocate.

[@AsaTrenchard1865]

Except when it comes to women 😐

[@vanl2154]

There has to be checks and balances with accountability for crimes committed by presidents, or the U.S.A would be an unimaginable country.

[@bubbalo3388]

Someone with 91 indictments asking for total immunity. Yeah you can trust him right?

[@paullee1660]

And that person happens to be a functionally illiterate who does not know what immunity entails legally.

[@basilmcdonnell9807]

88 now actually. Three got dropped.

[@mile_high_topher]

@@basilmcdonnell9807 Might add some in AZ, though.

[@Nothingbutlovehere369]

Still……INSANITY! This is crazy.

[@bubbalo3388]

@@basilmcdonnell9807 ehh. Still 88 more than any other president.

[@MostlyIC]

never heard Judge Ketanji speak before, WOW, amazed 🙂 !!!

[@Ludivine664]

Who could have imagined that the Supreme Court "Justices" would openly display their preference in broad daylight in 2024? JUSTICE IS BLIND?????

[@mariavasilopoulos8496]

Justice is SUPPOSED TO BE BLIND and EQUAL JUSTICE FOR ALL!!

[@ogrich1820]

It should be very disturbing that they even agreed to hear the case. You can't drain the swamp when the highest court is a cesspool!

[@afry6400]

Justice Brown seems to be the only one keeping things anywhere near on point. What are those idiots trying to pull???

[@AlexisMitchell87]

My 14 year old son was asking me today why is this even up for debate. I quote “Mom, no one is above the law! Not even the *President* .” I felt insane trying to neutrally explain how the SCOTUS chooses to take cases and why it’d be months before we have a decision. Now he thinks they’re corrupt. I never lied to my kids about Santa but, but here I am trying to explain away what’s happening.

[@adelaferreira4575]

They are corrupted judges for sure ,it’s very unfortunate that our kids have to witness such failure from the Supreme Court !

[@cowtownokla]

My advice would be don't explain it away. Your child is intelligent and needs to know what is happening. I never thought I would see the seeds of dictatorship begin to sprout in our country but they are, and things have a real possibility of becoming very ugly.

[@basilmcdonnell9807]

Alito is arguing openly and explicitly that in his view you can't run a country if no one is above the law. The President, he says, must be above the law. So... so much for that idea.

[@AlexisMitchell87]

@@cowtownokla it was just sad to hear him say it and see him so disappointed. It’s difficult to encourage the next generation to be civically engaged and take democracy seriously when they’re being shown our system is openly undermined.

[@AlexisMitchell87]

@@basilmcdonnell9807 which is insane. Upholding the law *is* the core tenet of the oath of office.

[@alrogan1038]

This case actually being heard before the highest court in the land is a insult to every law abiding citizen in this country. In a nation of laws based on the rule of law and constitution, a wanna be despot should have this cased tossed out of the lowest court in the land.

[@keemp1273]

The fact it took her to raise this concern is concerning. Do better Supreme Court

[@DJShoutSmith]

Those are some intellectually sharp individuals on that panel! 😮Ivy league!

[@marianmartinez1494]

bye, bye democracy, hello fascism! that's the new plan. For those who are happy to just stand back and watch all this happen I give you a quote 'you get the government you deserve.'

[@mstunameow]

Well effing duh. It is preposterous we are even discussing this.