southpaw: The latter, with Jan 6 and its related conspiracies hovering in the background. The Court phrased the question as whether “a former President enjoy(s) presidential immunity from criminal prosecution for conduct alleged to involve official acts during his tenure in office.”

It is a go outside and take a long walk kind of news day.

I'm not a lawyer so I'm not going to read their decision but Is the argument going to be about Jan 6 and the former president's involvement or are they going to argue that presidents are immune from justice?

The latter, with Jan 6 and its related conspiracies hovering in the background. The Court phrased the question as whether “a former President enjoy(s) presidential immunity from criminal prosecution for conduct alleged to involve official acts during his tenure in office.”

i am 1000% that immunity was never intended to protect a former president from criminal prosecution for TREASON, so am just hoping they come down on the side of "not this specific crime" tbh

What do you think of this assessment? bsky.app/profile/grud...

This is the tell for me. Trump’s lawyers claimed total immunity but SCOTUS is rewriting it for them so they can basically just make up official acts to cover Republican Presidents but bind Democratic ones.

Thanks. So "alleged to involve official acts" is carrying a lot of weight here. Doesn't that come back to Nixon's "When the president does it, that means it's not illegal" argument and easily dismissed?

I can't be the only one to think that "winning an immunity challenge" should be limited to reality TV shows and not applied to people with access to nukes.

Cool time to have a justice's wife be part of the criminal conspiracy. Great times to be living in.

Alleged as in “well he claims it so …”?

So: “it they are official acts he can crime at will. If not official acts then no. But…all the president’s acts are official, lol” #judgmentship

That was Nixon's argument with David Frost (not in a court of law).

I’d assume they’ll say no so that if Trump gets elected he will still be free to prosecute Biden and Obama without interference.

So it's a matter of classifying an act previously considered not official, to be an official act that gets him off? Sounds simple enough. Turley probably figuring this out.

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