Ex-prosecutor: SCOTUS delay in deciding Trump immunity is 'corrosive' to democracy

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Ex-prosecutor: SCOTUS delay in deciding Trump immunity is 'corrosive' to democracy

The Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) is due to hear oral arguments on former President Donald Trump's claims of absolute broad presidential immunity on Thursday, and a former federal prosecutor is lamenting that the nation's highest court has taken so long to decide what he believes is an open-shut case.In a Wednesday op-ed for the New York Times, former assistant U.S. Attorney Andrew Weissmann and legal scholar Melissa Murray wrote t…