JUSTICE KETANJI BROWN JACKSON: I think it's a real thing, but I wonder whether some of it might also be mitigated by the fact that existing administrations have a self-interest in protecting the presidency. That they understand that if they go after the former guy, soon, they're going to be the former guy...
MICHAEL DREEBEN: I think absolutely. And I would locate this as a structural argument that's built into the Constitution itself. The executive branch, I think, as this court knows, has executive branch interests that it at times asserts in opposition to Congress...
JUSTICE KETANJI BROWN JACKSON: ...presidents are concerned about being investigated and prosecuted. And it chills to some extent their, you know, ability to do what they want in office.
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