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sundin13 5 days ago
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Machiavellian said:
Ryuu96 said:

6-3 on immunity case. - "The court holds that a former president has absolute immunity for his core constitutional powers."

"So the Supreme Court isn't going to make that determination now. Instead, it will send the case back to the lower courts for further proceedings, although it does offer some guidance."

So now courts will have to decide what is an official act and what is an unofficial act, Lol.

Its pretty much what I expected.  Going on party lines and with no real guidance on what exactly would be considered official and non-official act.  Are we talking about what is defined in the constitution as to a president defined powers and or is it anything he doesn't declare as personal or could be be a combination of both as to how that is defined. Lol, its going to be a mess.

Roberts made it pretty clear that all actions relating to what is defined by the Constitution have absolute immunity. This means that when Trump's lawyer said in Court "you can only convict the president for ordering the murder of his opponent if he is impeached", everybody was saying "thats crazy, he should be able to be convicted" except for the Republicans on the SC who said "that's crazy, he should never be able to be convicted even if he is impeached. Absolute immunity baby!" 

The fuzzy zone is the rest, which Roberts said had the strong presumption of immunity. So yeah, courts are going to decide what the exceptions to that are, but most of the insane shit people have been laughing about is now law.