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Comment by Izkata

1 year ago

The immunity is for official duties in his role as president, which doesn't include those examples.

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anigbrowl  1 year ago

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.

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