Ketanji Brown Jackson speaks out on Trump immunity decision: 'I was concerned'

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Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson told CBS News' Norah O'Donnell during a recent interview that she was worried about the Trump immunity ruling.

"I was concerned about a system that appeared to provide immunity for one individual under one set of circumstances, when we have a criminal justice system that had ordinarily treated everyone the same," she said.

Jackson, who was nominated to the Supreme Court by President Biden in 2022, wrote a dissenting opinion in the Supreme Court's immunity decision. The Supreme Court ruled in July that a former president has substantial immunity from prosecution for official acts committed while in office, but not for unofficial acts.

"The court has now declared for the first time in history that the most powerful official in the United States can (under circumstances yet to be fully determined) become a law unto himself," Jackson wrote in her dissent.

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O'Donnell noted that her words sounded like a "warning."

"That was my view of what the court determined," Jackson responded.

In the majority opinion, Chief Justice Roberts wrote, "The President is not above the law. But Congress may not criminalize the President’s conduct in carrying out the responsibilities of the Executive Branch under the Constitution. And the