Supreme Court Justices are probing arguments by former President Donald Trump’s lawyer that he has total immunity from prosecution for official actions taken while in office.
But the question being posed by several Justices is what constitutes and official act and where the dividing line between official and private acts exists.
One of the first questions posed to Trump’s counsel, D. John Sauer, came from Justice Clarence Thomas who asked counsel how the high court should weigh what constitutes an “official act.”
The questioning from other Justices, both liberal and conservative, suggest the court is leaning towards a narrower interpretation of presidential immunity than Trump’s lawyers. For example, Justice Samuel Alito asked Sauer if his “very robust” protections are “necessary.”In response, Sauer argued in a series of hypotheticals that the president has broad immunity for prosecution for official act, no matter how offensive they are to moral sensibilities, including the potential assassination […]
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