{"id":121621,"date":"2025-06-03T13:51:18","date_gmt":"2025-06-03T21:51:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/06\/03\/conservative-legal-scholar-thinks-donald-trump-would-be-behind-bars-if-not-for-federalist-society-judges\/"},"modified":"2025-06-03T13:51:18","modified_gmt":"2025-06-03T21:51:18","slug":"conservative-legal-scholar-thinks-donald-trump-would-be-behind-bars-if-not-for-federalist-society-judges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/06\/03\/conservative-legal-scholar-thinks-donald-trump-would-be-behind-bars-if-not-for-federalist-society-judges\/","title":{"rendered":"Conservative Legal Scholar Thinks Donald Trump Would Be Behind Bars If Not For \u2018Federalist Society Judges\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ed. note<\/u>: Welcome to our daily feature, Quote of the Day<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

Donald Trump should realize that an independent judiciary is to his benefit too, because if it weren\u2019t for Federalist Society judges, he would be in jail right now. [I]t was the Roberts Court that said former presidents just can\u2019t be prosecuted for crimes. And I think because Roberts, because Thomas Alito, because particularly Barrett, Kavanaugh, and Gorsuch are not seen as just rubber stampers for Trump, the Supreme Court makes that decision, that debate is over and Donald Trump can run for office and win in the 2024 election. <\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2014 Professor John Yoo<\/a> of UC Berkeley Law, in comments given during the WSJ\u2019s Potomac Watch podcast<\/a>, where he spoke out about Donald Trump\u2019s attacks against Leonard Leo and the Federalist Society<\/a>. Yoo continued, saying, <\/em><\/strong>\u201cHe appoints some of the people now that we worry he\u2019ll appoint to the bench \u2014 former defense lawyers on his team, former friends who helped him legally when he was a casino owner \u2014 and he may not win that case. He might be sitting in jail right now and Joe Biden or whoever his successor would be, would be President right now.<\/strong>\u201c<\/em><\/p>\n

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Staci Zaretsky<\/a>\u00a0is a senior editor at Above the Law, where she\u2019s worked since 2011. She\u2019d love to hear from you, so please feel free to email<\/a> her with any tips, questions, comments, or critiques. You can follow her on\u00a0Bluesky<\/a>,\u00a0X\/Twitter<\/a>, and\u00a0Threads<\/a>,\u00a0or connect with her on\u00a0LinkedIn<\/a>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The post Conservative Legal Scholar Thinks Donald Trump Would Be Behind Bars If Not For \u2018Federalist Society Judges\u2019<\/a> appeared first on Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Ed. note<\/u>: Welcome to our daily feature, Quote of the Day<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

Donald Trump should realize that an independent judiciary is to his benefit too, because if it weren\u2019t for Federalist Society judges, he would be in jail right now. [I]t was the Roberts Court that said former presidents just can\u2019t be prosecuted for crimes. And I think because Roberts, because Thomas Alito, because particularly Barrett, Kavanaugh, and Gorsuch are not seen as just rubber stampers for Trump, the Supreme Court makes that decision, that debate is over and Donald Trump can run for office and win in the 2024 election. <\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2014 Professor John Yoo<\/a> of UC Berkeley Law, in comments given during the WSJ\u2019s Potomac Watch podcast<\/a>, where he spoke out about Donald Trump\u2019s attacks against Leonard Leo and the Federalist Society<\/a>. Yoo continued, saying, <\/em><\/strong>\u201cHe appoints some of the people now that we worry he\u2019ll appoint to the bench \u2014 former defense lawyers on his team, former friends who helped him legally when he was a casino owner \u2014 and he may not win that case. He might be sitting in jail right now and Joe Biden or whoever his successor would be, would be President right now.<\/strong>\u201c<\/em><\/p>\n

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Staci Zaretsky<\/a>\u00a0is a senior editor at Above the Law, where she\u2019s worked since 2011. She\u2019d love to hear from you, so please feel free to email<\/a> her with any tips, questions, comments, or critiques. You can follow her on\u00a0Bluesky<\/a>,\u00a0X\/Twitter<\/a>, and\u00a0Threads<\/a>,\u00a0or connect with her on\u00a0LinkedIn<\/a>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ed. note: Welcome to our daily feature, Quote of the Day. Donald Trump should realize that an independent judiciary is to his benefit too, because if it weren\u2019t for Federalist Society judges, he would be in jail right now. [I]t was the Roberts Court that said former presidents just can\u2019t be prosecuted for crimes. And […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":121601,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-121621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-above_the_law"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/xira.com\/p\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Staci-Zaretsky-pPv9W1.jpeg?fit=150%2C100&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121621","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121621"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121621\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/121601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}