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.”

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    4 days ago

    They aren’t having an epiphany. This is just conservative nazi self-preservation. They know the next president is unlikely to be who they thought it would be.

    The idea of having their own permanent conservative kingdom seems less likely to them, so that ruling could become a serious liability for them with a highly motivated progressive president in place.

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      3 days ago

      You seem to be implying that Sotomayor is a Nazi (or even just a conservative)? Do you know literally anything about her?

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        I am not implying she is a nazi. Roberts has been extra nice lately, if you haven’t noticed. Let me be more clear, the SIX nazis on the SCOTUS are panicking.

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        I don’t but money is blind to morality, politics, religion, and race.

        We’ve seen stranger bedfellows.

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      4 days ago

      I want to remind all other us voters that the french created the guillotine for this exact scenario, might be worth keeping in mind.