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Brendan Nyhan

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"The entire purpose of the Constitution was to create a government that was not bound to the whims of a king." www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

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Aside from being used to dismiss TENS of THOUSANDS of. police brutality lawsuits, in the 1982 Nixon v. Fitzgerald lawsuit, the SCOTUS cited Pierson v. Ray to conclude that President Nixon was ABSOLUTELY immune from CIVIL suits, but not criminal acts.

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