Sen. Whitehouse Lambasts Supreme Court Presidential Immunity Decision in Judiciary Hearing

thanks very much chairman Durban there are several conclusions you can draw from this sorry episode one is what laughably fake and disposable doctrines textualism and originalism are Trump the United States was manufactured out of thin air nothing textualist or originalist about it doctrines of convenience citizens united similarly had no originalist underpinnings while we're at it so much for case or controversy humility or solving a split among the circuits instead we get this grandios partisan leap to a so-called decision for the ages the Constitution does Grant immunity so the founders knew how to do that they

did not give immunity to presidents the immunity granted in the Constitution was to legislators to protect Congress against what the founders feared most abuse of Presidential Power like ordering false arrests to block our voting even then legislative immunity accepted felony and and treason the Trump justices invented presidential immunity and then didn't even carve out treason the first mention ever that a president can freely commit crimes comes from this court just as we have our first ever criminal presidential candidate Trump just offered a billion doll quid quo to his fossil fuel donors bribes of officials are

usually for official acts now the acts can't even be used as evidence treason too is usually most dangerous from the inside a treasonous president using his official Powers collaborating with crooked appointees in his administration whom he can pardon could sell America out to foreign enemies whatever deals or concessions Trump May obtain from Vladimir Putin to sell out our Ukrainian allies he can walk away with Scott free the timing smells too the Colorado Insurrection case needed a quick decision to help Trump and Trump got a quick decision quick decisions can happen United States versus Nixon took

three weeks Bush Vore took four days what would help Trump in this case was delay and he got delay and then he got this decision creating yet more delay had the court intended to shelter the Republican nominee from unpleasant accountability before the election for criminal Acts it could hardly have done better he got a slow mo Bush V Gore remember how we got this the billionaires scheme to capture the court spending over half a billion dollars doing it the billionaire secret gifts program to keep justices happy showering particular Justice with millions of dollars in gifts

the billionaire funded funded flotillas of amiki providing directions the absence uniquely in government of any ethics process not even fact-f finding creepy right-wing billionaires worked for years through phony front groups and mischievous minions like Leonard Leo to acquire the court that dark money built the billionaires are reaping the rewards now of move after move towards oligarchy Unlimited political money secret political money voter suppression gerrymandering squelched political corruption prosecutions and now allowing a Billionaire's stooge president to use his powers criminally with impunity to help the creepy billionaires it is starting to look less and less like

America thank you chairman thank you sir