Comment by anigbrowl
1 year ago
It was not 'panned by pretty much every major legal figure'. And yes I read the whole opinion as well as the dissents.
1 year ago
It was not 'panned by pretty much every major legal figure'. And yes I read the whole opinion as well as the dissents.
The immunity is for official duties in his role as president, which doesn't include those examples.
And Sotomayor correctly pointed out that it's trivially easy to assert that any given action was an official duty, thereby gaining the benefit of presumptive immunity pending a court's detailed determination.