On the latest episode of the PBS political roundtable Washington Week with The Atlantic, host (and Atlantic editor in chief) Jeffrey Goldberg set up New York Times legal reporter Charlie Savage to discuss the “future of presidential power” after the Supreme Court’s 6-3 ruling defined presidential immunity and had the knock-on effect of postponing Donald Trump’s classified documents trial and his sentencing in the overblown “hush money” case.
It was no surprise that Savage agreed with Obama-appointed Justice Sonia Sotomayor’s overwrought liberal dissent, involving hysterical hypotheticals about a president using Navy Seal Team Six to take out a political opponent. Savage sounded the alarm.
Charlie Savage: ….This decision is going to reverberate. It has unleashed the presidency from any kind of inhibiting deterrent of, maybe I better not use my…
