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JB Pritzker: “The Supreme Court essentially said the president is immune…”

Featuring: JB Pritzker, Democratic | Governor of Illinois

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Published | Video Starts at 14:45

And I will say that the Constitution confers a lot of power on the executive already. Then what happened is the first and frankly, the worst thing that has happened is The Supreme Court essentially said the president is immune, entirely immune from anything. Literally. What they've said is if the president decides to shoot somebody. He said this himself when he was running, but now the Supreme Court said, yeah, that's fine. (14:45–14:52)

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