Strict Scrutiny Trump’s DOJ Shakedown
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Presidential Control Enables Self-Payments
- The Trump demand to have DOJ pay him ~$230 million shows presidential control can be used to extract public funds for personal gain.
- Kate Shaw and Leah Litman tie this abuse directly to the Supreme Court's immunity decision that centralized DOJ control in the president.
Roberts' Immunity Ruling Has Tangible Costs
- The hosts argue the Supreme Court's immunity ruling empowered corrupt uses of DOJ and presidential authority.
- They name Chief Justice John Roberts as bearing responsibility for expanding executive control and enabling lawlessness.
Strikes Reflect Unchecked Executive Power
- The administration's lethal strikes abroad resemble extrajudicial killings that legal experts call murders.
- Leah Litman and Kate Shaw connect this to a unitary-executive view that the president's determinations are controlling and unreviewable.
