Five SCOTUS Justices' Comments on Prez Immunity Come Back to Haunt Them

Daily Beast
Owen Lavine
Updated Jul. 02, 2024 3:32PM EDT / Published Jul. 02, 2024 3:21PM EDT

Collective amnesia seems to have struck the conservative majority on the Supreme Court, especially around the question: Is the president above the law?

Five of the six conservative justices who ruled to give the president absolute immunity for “core” presidential duties seem to have made contradictory statements during their Senate confirmation hearings.

“No man is above the law,” Neil Gorsuch told Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-VT) during his confirmation hearing in 2017.

Gorsuch even doubled down, calling the court’s landmark 1952 decision in Youngstown v. Sawyer, which reigned in presidential authority, a “brilliant opinion.”

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