text:  It's completely counter to Supreme Court precedent. Ah, meaning that in the past, going back to the 1970s, the Supreme Court has ruled on the constitutionality of special counsels, and now she says otherwise. Is that what you mean? Yes. In a very famous case, Watergate Tapes case, United States v. Nixon, the court unanimously upheld this very mechanism that she has claimed is unconstitutional.