Mike Wendling , BBC News; Justices 'fear for democracy' in dissent on Trump immunity
"Six conservative-leaning justices signed the majority opinion, but the three liberals dissented.
Led by Sonia Sotomayor, they expressed "fear for our democracy".
"Orders the Navy's Seal Team 6 to assassinate a political rival?" Justice Sotomayor wrote. "Immune."
"Organizes a military coup to hold onto power? Immune. Takes a bribe in exchange for a pardon? Immune. Immune, immune, immune."
"Even if these nightmare scenarios never play out, and I pray they never do, the damage has been done," Justice Sotomayor wrote. "In every use of official power, the President is now a king above the law."
She was joined in her dissent by the court's two other liberal justices, Ketanji Brown Jackson and Elena Kagan."
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