(07-02-2024, 12:31 AM)Boredfrom wrote:(07-01-2024, 05:16 PM)Garfield wrote: Ongoing meltdown on resetera over the Supreme Court immunity decision, from a bunch of nitwits who don't understand the constitution or the law, and that includes "educated attorneys" such as Mimic. Even at the so-called "elite" law schools it's a total left wing blowhard fest amongst both the students and the faculty. I'd estimate the faculty at these schools is roughly 2% right wingers(half of which are never trumper bosh/romney types and a quarter of which are lol-er-tarians) and 98% left.
The context made this post worse.
(Didn’t see the news)
L'État, c'est moi.
The president only has absolute immunity for express constitutional powers; see Article II of the constitution if you need a list. Official acts only enjoy presumptive immunity and it can be rebutted if said act is beyond his authority. Frivolously arresting or killing political opponents, canceling elections, and the other things Sotamayor and Jackson screeched about in their dissents are so obviously beyond the president's authority that any presumptive immunity a president claims for would be easily rebutted. The presumptive immunity requires a high bar to be rebutted because otherwise we'd see former presidents facing questionable prosecutions every time the White House changed parties. Not to mention there's still the whole impeachment thing preventing a president from acting unlawfully. Unofficial acts have no immunity.
Not to mention all the frivolous prosecutions of a former president are being done either by the current administration in federal courts or in state courts with their blessing and cooperation. You're free to believe what you want, it's still a free country (despite Trump being president for four years, imagine that!)