Reagan-appointed judge whacks Supreme Court's immunity ruling

Judge William G. Young was appointed to the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts by then-President Ronald Reagan in 1985 — but even he is drawing the line on the Supreme Court's decision on Donald Trump's immunity.

Newsweek reported Monday that Young wrote a footnote in a recent case in which he called out the Supreme Court for "eschewing historical analysis sought fundamentally to redesign the relationship between the sovereign people and the first citizen of the Republic" in their ruling over presidential immunity.

The Supreme Court's decision from earlier this year was the result of Trump taking his 2020 election subversion case up the chain of higher courts, as his attorneys claimed that he was protected from any prosecution for anything done around the election because he was the president and had a duty to oversee that the elections in the states were conducted properly.

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Conservative legal experts such as retired Judge J. Michael Luttig and former George W. Bush Attorney General Alberto Gonzales have also said that they disagree with the Supreme Court's decision.

"A president needs to be able to make these kinds of decisions on behalf of the country without fear of prosecution," Gonzales told Politico in July. "If the president can order the Department of Justice to prosecute someone in any event, that's a different story. And that's the one thing that I do have some concerns about," he added.

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