Attacks on the judiciary by our President undermine that legitimacy and that faith.
Nancy Gertner: “Attacks on the judiciary by our President undermine that legitimacy and that faith.”
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Gertner discusses how presidential attacks affect public trust in the judiciary.
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The classified information that is being described is not and can't possibly be shielded by executive privilege. In other words, he didn't have a right to have it, he didn't have a right to have it in his beach house.
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