Yup. The Constitution includes a narrowly-defined legal immunity for members of Congress in a specific circumstance. Not one word about Presidential or Supreme Court Justice immunity. Those parts were made up out of thin air.
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And then they go on to pontificate not only about the immunity but the founders' *intent* in establishing that immunity
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“Originalism”. 🙄
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it's legal thesis by way of calvinball. Absolute horseshit sent by the Federalist Society.
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It turns out there were plenty of penumbras and emanations in the Constitution after all.
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Just use your FedSoc decoder ring and they show right up!
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If only there was some approach to interpreting the text of the constitution that could make sense of that fact
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