Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson used President Joe Biden’s “the former guy” nickname for former President Donald Trump during the final minutes of a Supreme Court hearing on Trump’s claim of “absolute immunity.”
Justice Jackson invoked the nickname during the final minutes of the immunity hearing as she asked attorney Michael Dreeben to weigh in on the notion that administrations have an interest in protecting the presidency because today’s president is tomorrow’s “former guy”:
JUSTICE KETANJI BROWN JACKSON: A final sort of a set of questions that I have have to do with, what I do take as a very legitimate concern about, prosecutorial abuse, about future presidents being targeted for things that they have done in office. I take that concern — I think it’s a real thing, but I wonder whether some of it might also be mitigated by the fact that existing administrations have a self-interest in protecting the presidency. That they understand that …
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