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CaptainTruth

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41. Presidential immunity dates to Nixon & the 1973 OLC memo.

Thu May 22, 2025, 11:48 AM

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It's been DOJ policy & practice for 50+ years based on that OLC opinion, & the GOP (with Trump's help) finally succeeded in elevating it from a memo to a SCOTUS decision after 50 years.

There were many opportunities to challenge it over those 50 years, while it was "just" an opinion/memo, but for some reason we chose not to. I don't understand why, but here we are.

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