David G. Savage | Los Angeles Times (TNS)WASHINGTON — Fifty years ago this month, the U.S. Supreme Court was mulling a landmark case with profound implications for America’s democracy. The Constitution has no “absolute, unqualified presidential privilege of immunity,” the court said in July 1974 in United States v. Nixon. Critics say the Roberts court has already delivered a victory of sorts for Trump by taking so long to decide on his immunity claim. The court decided the Watergate case 16 days after the oral argument, he noted. “That’s why this could be the most dangerous decision the court has ever made,” he said of Trump’s case.

Source: Los Angeles Times June 19, 2024 17:23 UTC