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Trump Wins: Supreme Court Says Presidents Covered by Limited Immunity
Flaired Users Onlyn a 6-3 vote, the Court ruled that presidents have "absolute immunity" for official "actions within his conclusive and preclusive constitutional authority" and instructed the lower trial courts to hold specific evidentiary trials on each anti-Trump criminal count to determine which counts, if any, apply to non-immune acts. The Court ruled that presidents do not have immunity for non-official conduct.
"In dividing official from unofficial conduct, courts may not inquire into the President’s motives," the Court ruled. "Whenever the President and Vice President discuss their official responsibilities, they engage in official conduct."
"The indictment’s allegations that Trump attempted to pressure the Vice President to take particular acts in connection with his role at the certification proceeding thus involve official conduct, and Trump is at least presumptively immune from prosecution for such conduct," the Court added.
"The President enjoys no immunity for his unofficial acts, and not everything the President does is official. The President is not above the law. But under our system of separated powers, the President may not be prosecuted for exercising his core constitutional powers, and he is entitled to at least presumptive immunity from prosecution for his official acts," the Court concluded. "That immunity applies equally to all occupants of the Oval Office."
Nice, good quotes.
I would add that Thomas's opinion is really important as well. He writes that it takes an act of congress to pass a law creating the special counsel to prosecute Trump. Without that mechanism happening - and Biden or whoever just doing it himself - Thomas writes the special counsel is nothing more than a private citizen, and they do NOT even have authority to bring this case.
I'd like to see some pundits focus on that part, because I feel it's important if the Dems try to move the case forward