Why Richard Nixon would love the Supreme Court's immunity ruling

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The Morning Joe panel discusses the Supreme Court ruling Trump has limited immunity.

After the Supreme Court’s ruling Monday in Trump v. U.S., former White House counsel John Dean wrote that the court had “affirmed” the claim of Dean’s former boss, President Richard Nixon: “When the president does it, that means that it is not illegal.” As a member of the Watergate special prosecution team that brought Nixon to accountability, and won the Supreme Court’s U.S. v. Nixon ruling that the president is not above the law, I agree.

But the majority declares those actions “at least” presumptively immune, and that the prosecution must rebut that presumption. Common sense tells us all these actions were clearly the acts of a candidate, not legitimate uses of presidential authority.

 

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