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Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson laments presidential immunity decision in TV interview
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In an interview airing on Sunday, US supreme court justice Ketanji Brown Jackson lamented her conservative colleagues’ decision to grant broad immunity to Donald Trump and other presidents for official acts as essentially protecting “one individual under one set of circumstances when we have a criminal justice system that had ordinarily treated everyone the same”.
“I mean that was my view of what the court determined,” Jackson said in the pre-recorded conversation for the news program CBS Sunday Morning. And she added: “I was concerned.”
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