When the U.S. Supreme Court issued its controversial 6-3 immunity ruling in Trump v. the United States, Justice Sonia Sotomayor's scathing dissent laid out a variety of possible abuses that she fears.
Sotomayor warned that with the immunity from criminal prosecution that the Court's GOP-appointed majority offered, a president could do anything from order a U.S. Navy SEAL team to kill political rivals to engage in acts of bribery — and never face accountability.
Former federal prosecutor Glenn Kirschner is sounding the alarm as well.
Kirschner, on his YouTube channel, slammed the High Court's ruling as "a staggering piece of judicial abuse."
The former federal prosecutor warned, "Their pronouncement that, essentially, a president is a king above the law, beyond the reach of our nation's criminal laws — it's shocking in its transparent impropriety and in its favoritism toward Donald Trump."
According to Kirschner, the Trump v. the United States decision means that if Trump returns to the White House in 2025, he would be able to openly sell presidential pardons without the fear of a criminal indictment.
"So, if Donald Trump set up a pardon kiosk in the lobby of the White House and sold pardons for a million bucks a pop, or a billion bucks a pop, because it's a core presidential power, the president gets to do it," Kirschner lamented. "And there's not a damn thing the Supreme Court tells us that law enforcement or prosecutors or courts can do about it."
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