Norm Eisen: The Supreme Court Just Gave Trump a ‘License for Dictatorship’

SIDNER: “When the president does it, that means it is not illegal. So, in this context, with what the court has decided, Norm, does this mean that Nixon basically would have been able to do what he did completely, legally, without any recourse?”
EISEN: “You could have had substantial portions of Richard Nixon‘s wrongdoing that drove him from office, because it was conducted from the Oval Office, using his official advisors to engage in break-ins, wide variety of other illegal acts, it would have been impossible to prosecute. Essentially, what the Supreme Court majority, again, including terribly conflicted justices who have no business sitting on this case under any standard of judicial ethics, what they‘ve done, Sara, is rewrite American history. It goes all the way back to the founding American idea. We overthrew King George III because we did not want a ruler to have this kind of absolute immunity, and the Supreme Court has now altered that. And we have to be honest that we‘re facing a major party political candidate who has said he wants to be a dictator on day one, he wants to assert autocratic powers. They‘ve just given him a license for dictatorship within the purview of official acts. That should be extremely alarming and it makes this momentous election really a referendum on the future of American democracy.”