Editorial: Only dictators have immunity from criminal acts while in power
by Los Angeles Times
Los Angeles Times— It seems unlikely that the Supreme Court will embrace Donald Trump’s outrageous claim that as a former president he enjoys absolute immunity from criminal prosecution for actions that he allegedly took to overturn the 2020 election and cling to power. This is a relief. To do otherwise would allow the office to become, as Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson put it, "the seat of criminal activity in this country." Ominously, however, some conservative justices during Thursday’s oral argument expressed...
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The Federalist—SCOTUS Agrees Presidents Do Have Immunity From Criminal Prosecutions, But To What Degree?. It's clear the justices have very different ideas about the scope of presidential immunity and how it should apply at the trial level.