Supreme Court gave this 'dangerous tool' to a president bent on 'revenge': analysis

Supreme Court gave this 'dangerous tool' to a president bent on 'revenge': analysis

Former Acting Assistant AG Mary McCord and former FBI General Counsel Andrew Weissmann said Chief Justice John Roberts appeared wary of a president being “free to prosecute his predecessors” when he helped extend absolute immunity to the president. But in the year since, rather than preventing the weaponization of prosecutions, “the court has unleashed it.”“Trump’s direction of the prosecutions of his perceived enemies — notably James Comey, the…