Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson laments presidential immunity decision in TV interview

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

47% : "Polls for the moment generally show Trump trailing Harris in key battleground states that could decide the election.
46% : O'Donnell asked Jackson whether she was "prepared" in the event that the supreme court is tasked with deciding the outcome of November's White House race between Trump and Kamala Harris, his Democratic rival.
45% : Critics of the decision have fumed that Trump appointed Barrett, Gorsuch and Kavanaugh to the supreme court during the Republican's presidency.
44% : The supreme court jurist said the ruling earlier this year establishes a two-tier legal system that protects TrumpIn an interview airing on Sunday, US supreme court justice Ketanji Brown Jackson lamented her conservative colleagues' decision to grant broad immunity to Donald Trump and other presidents for official acts as essentially protecting "one individual under one set of circumstances when we have a criminal justice system that had ordinarily treated everyone the same".
41% : Trump is awaiting a sentencing hearing tentatively set for 18 September in the New York courthouse where he was convicted.
35% : Smith's office obtained a new indictment against Trump in Washington DC's federal courthouse emphasizing that the former president was acting outside the scope of his official duties when allegedly interfering with the outcome of the 2020 election.
34% : A similar pleading from Trump in advance of the New York trial failed.
24% : Trump is also facing charges in three separate cases brought by federal prosecutors as well as a district attorney in Georgia over his efforts to nullify his 2020 defeat and his retention of government documents after leaving the White House.
10% : "The justice joined fellow liberals Elena Kagan and Sonia Sotomayor in voting against the immunity ruling, handed down as Trump sought a second presidential term while grappling with criminal charges that he oversaw a sprawling effort to illegally overturn his defeat in the 2020 election against Joe Biden.

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