Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor said on Saturday that she hopes the court’s decision granting former presidents broad criminal immunity will be overturned, saying her colleagues have done some “crazy things.”

Appearing for a civics education talk at George Washington’s Mount Vernon estate, the liberal justice also publicly commented for the first time on this week’s midterm contests, when Democrats swept control of both chambers of Congress.

The justice specifically singled out the court’s 6-3 decision along ideological lines that former presidents enjoy at least presumptive immunity for their official acts. At the time, the justice wrote that it made Trump and his successors a “king above the law.”

  • Professorozone
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    1 day ago

    Overturning presidential immunity would only be a start. How about abortion, citizens united, etc.

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      17 hours ago

      Fucking legislate abortion rights. Write a damned law and pass it. Using a court decision by itself for this has always been stupid.

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        14 hours ago

        Agreed. However, they didn’t have to address the issue after 50 years. Clearly they always will, I guess, if they don’t get something more concrete in place.