Rebecca Shabad is a politics reporter for NBC News based in Washington.
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court's liberal bloc issued blistering dissents Monday in the Trump immunity ruling, arguing that it 'reshapes the institution of the presidency' and 'makes a mockery' of the constitutional principle that no man is above the law. Justice Sonia Sotomayor, reading her dissent from the bench, said that 'relying on little more than its own misguided wisdom ... the Court gives former President Trump all the immunity he asked for and more.
“The Constitution does not require blinding juries to the circumstances surrounding conduct for which Presidents can be held liable,” she said. In her own written dissent, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson said that the majority's ruling 'breaks new and dangerous ground.
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