The presidency is the most powerful office in the world.

It's an office that not only test your judgment,

perhaps even more importantly, it's an office that can test your character.

Because you're not only faced moments where you need to courage, exercise the full power of the presidency.

You also face moments where you need the wisdom to respect the limits of the presidency. You also face moments where you need the wisdom

to respect the limits of the power of the opposite presidency.

This nation was founded on the principle that there are no kings in America.

Each, each of us is equal before the law.

No one. No one is above the law, not even the President of the United

States. Today's Supreme Court decision on presidential immunity, that fundamentally changed.

For all, for all practical purposes, today's decision almost certainly means that there are virtually no limits

what the president can do. This is a fundamentally new principle, and it's a dangerous precedent,

because the power of the office will no longer be constrained by the law, even including the

Supreme Court of the United States. The only limits will be self-imposed by the President alone.

This decision today has continued the court's attack in recent years

on a wide range of long-established legal principles in our nation.

From gutting voting rights and civil rights,

to taking away women's right to choose, to today's decision that undermines the rule of law of this nation.

Nearly four years ago, my predecessor sent a violent mob to the U.S. Capitol to stop the peaceful transfer of power.

We all saw it with our own eyes. We sat there and watched it happened that day. Attack on the police. The ransacking of the Capitol. A mob literally hunting down

the House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. Gallows erected to hang the vice president of Mike Pence.

I think it's fair to say it's one of the darkest days in the history of America.

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