An incredulous former Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-MO) slammed what she called an "activist" U.S. Supreme Court following its ruling on presidential immunity Monday, a decision she criticized as being dressed up "in federalist bulls---."
Speaking to MSNBC's Nicolle Wallace, McCaskill, like other legal scholars, argued that the ruling was "terrible" and handed former President Donald Trump a pass on crimes of which he is accused.
She prefaced her takedown by pointing to logical and political arguments before the "angry" one.
"I wish I believed that voters would understand that their power — it was taken away — their freedom was taken away in Dobbs," said McCaskill, speaking about the ruling that overturned Roe v. Wade. "This is a whole other level of power grabbing from the people that the court has just done."
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"Now angry," McCaskill continued pivoting to her other opinions. "The nerve of these guys to talk about being textualists! Talk about — I mean, the lengths that [Clarence] Thomas went to to say that for gun regulations, there had to be something about domestic violence in the founding document. They did this when the entire premise of our country was to make sure there was never a king."
Her reference was to the Supreme Court ruling where they agreed to remove the firearm of someone who had a victim protection order against him. Thomas disagreed with the move, saying there was no mention of the phrase "domestic violence" in the Constitution.
"The entire premise of why we exist is to give power to the people and not to a president," McCaskill continued. "So, I'm angry at these hypocrites. This is the most activist court I've ever seen. And I'm a law student. I've been a lawyer all my adult life. This is an activist court, above all activist courts. And the notion that they want to dress this up in federalist bulls---, that somehow they are not activists and they are not bending the law to their political [will], well, is horse hockey."
She went on to say it scares her as well, calling it a "pivotal moment" for the future of the United States democracy.
Wallace joked that McCaskill "threw down the bulls--- gauntlet" and had to say more.
The ex-senator recalled some judges visited her Senate office and asked for her vote on the court.
"I've listened to the Republicans. I've listened to the Yale and Harvard graduate Republicans talk about how we can't rewrite from the bench. We can't do things the founding fathers didn't want us to do, and we can't have a court legislating," she explained. "Look what this court has done. Out of whole cloth."
McCaskill called it absurd that any president has been "chilled from not being able to use their authority and power" while serving as president.
Trump, for example, "wasn't chilled," she said.
"He can't wait to try to rip up the Constitution and deprive the country from a peaceful transfer of power," she said. "He couldn't wait to find false electors and try to do things that had never been contemplated in our country before. He wasn't chilled. He was, let's go for it!"
Yet somehow, the court is using the idea that someone "might be chilled" to justify protecting Trump from indictment.
"It's crazy. That's why I'm saying they're making this stuff up. They're just making it up," she closed.
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