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Letter from Ashok Malhotra

Judges Should Remain Impartial

I thought with amazement when I heard the news that the Supreme Court of the USA, with a majority ruling, said that the president of the USA is above the law and could not be prosecuted if he/she was performing his/her official duty. Judges who passed that law of the land with a majority of six were appointed by the conservative presidents. Though they should be impartial to the ideology of who nominated them, they were not. In this case, all six of them were representing the presidents who nominated them in the first place.

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