"There was nothing extreme in Sotomayor’s [dissent] concerns, & her fears were justified. As a national security analyst, … I know we don’t need to engage in hypotheticals … All we need to understand what a criminally immune Trump might do, with even one executive branch agency given carte blanche, is to remind ourselves what the nation learned about the FBI during the 1970s."
-- Frank Figluzzi, former assist. director counterintelligence at the FBI
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Supreme Court’s immunity ruling could help Trump weaponize law enforcement
In immunity ruling Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts dismissed as "extreme hypotheticals" what law enforcement might do, ignoring the FBI's history.Frank Figliuzzi (MSNBC)
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in reply to Deborah Hartmann Preuss, pcc 🇨🇦 • • •It wasn’t so much extreme as it was simply unrealistic.
Sotomayor was off in a different world talking about things based on facts that aren’t actually true and fighting a bunch of straw men arguments that aren’t on the table.
It’s not really extreme, it’s just that she apparently has no idea what’s going on and so she’s off writing these fictions.
I don’t know if that’s better or worse, but either way she’s a joke on the Supreme Court.