
5 key takeaways from today’s pivotal
#SCOTUSLive arguments in Mazars, Deutsche Bank, & Vance -- all cases dealing with whether or not the president has immunity from accountability

#NoOneIsAboveTheLaw #NobodyIsAboveTheLaw

As expected, Trump & DOJ attys portrayed Congressional & grand jury subpoenas as unprecedented and overreaching, when really *their* push for an imperial presidency is unprecedented...and dangerous.
#NoOneIsAboveTheLaw #NobodyIsAboveTheLaw #SCOTUSLive

Trump’s attys pretended scope+scale of Trump investigs/pres subpoenas were new. But Washington, Jefferson, Monroe, Jackson, Buchanan, Grant...not to mention Nixon, Ford, Carter & Clinton would disagree! Receipts in our amicus brief.
#NoOneIsAboveTheLaw https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/19/19-635/134533/20200302094924756_19-635%20bsac%20Former%20Republican%20Members%20of%20Congress%20et%20al.pdf

SCOTUS specifically considered the “hordes of local prosecutors harassing the president” strawman in Clinton v. Jones & dismissed the concern; it likely will do so again.
#SCOTUS was skeptical even though Trump’s attys really pushed.
#NoOneIsAboveTheLaw #NobodyIsAboveTheLaw

The president is not above the law. Pres.Trump’s arguments in these 3 cases are part of his larger effort to elevate the presidency above the law and make it completely unaccountable to the other co-equal branches.
#NoOneIsAboveTheLaw #NobodyIsAboveTheLaw #SCOTUSLive
Overall, if
#SCOTUS gets any of these cases wrong, our democracy will be irreparably damaged. Precedent and history are clear: the President is not (and cannot be) above the law.
#NoOneIsAboveTheLaw #NobodyIsAboveTheLaw #SCOTUSLive
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