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Neil Lewis, Jr.

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"If the president is a king, then we are subjects, whose lives and livelihoods are only safe insofar as we don’t incur the wrath of the executive...if we find ourselves outside the light of his favor, then we find ourselves...outside the protection of the law."
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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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