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Dissenting justices warn that the Supreme Court's decision

to grant broad ridiculous immunity from criminal prosecution

for acts in office puts presidents, or maybe just Donald Trump above the law.

Can American democracy as we know it survive that and other rulings from this recent

session of the court?

When Trump came to office in 2017 he knew less than anybody else about his actual

power and what he could actually do. And if you give him power again, may God have mercy on

our souls. Legal analyst Ellie Mistow on the Supreme Court and what's left of our democracy.

Coming up on a word with me, Jason Johnson.

Stay with us. Welcome to a word a podcast about race and politics and everything else. I'm your host

Jason Johnson. The Supreme Court session, perhaps the most consequential in

history, has come to an end and so is the idea

that a president is not a king. The court began this week by declaring that a

president has immunity from criminal prosecution for official acts in office.

But there was more like the Chevron deference decision which overturned four decades

of precedent and gutted the power of federal agencies to regulate much of anything.

There was another decision that prevents the EPA from protecting states from pollution

drifting across their borders.

And another that punted on whether states can prevent pregnant patients from

getting abortions even when they face serious but not deadly

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