Senate Democrats enlist ex-Watergate prosecutor to slam Trump immunity ruling

Published September 24, 2024 2:43pm ET



The Democratic-led Senate Judiciary Committee discussed the Supreme Court immunity decision in favor of former President Donald Trump on Tuesday, calling in witnesses, including a former Watergate prosecutor, to scrutinize the landmark ruling.

“The court has always been subject to criticism,” former Deputy Solicitor General Philip Allen Lacovara, who served as counsel to the Watergate prosecution against former President Richard Nixon, said at the outset of the hearing, arguing that the Supreme Court’s July 1 decision in Trump v. United States is “profoundly wrong for several reasons.”

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