This guy with full immunity for “official acts,” plus the unlimited ability to pardon any official who would implement such orders = “limited government” Republican style.
Not only will Trump admin 2.0 be staffed with 100% MAGA loyalists eager to implement whatever Trump wants, but they also will have little reason to worry about laws that might constrain their most "enthusiastic" impulses. The norms long ago ceased constraining GOP behavior. Now the law won't either.
Cobbling together a couple of things I've read elsewhere, it seems the decision leaves this (among so many other) question open: Presidents rarely "act." Rather, they act through the conduct of those who they direct. Could an argument be made that the conduct itself IS the official act?
So rather than the focus being on giving the order to shoot a rival, the act is the shooting itself.
(As an aside, I think I need to stop thinking about this for a while. 😆)
