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I don't know why everybody is so upset about this ruling.
The trial court said he didn't have absolute immunity. He said he did, and appealed. The appeals court said "no, you don't have absolute immunity" and sent it back to thr trial court. He appealed again. SCOTUS could have reversed the trial court and appelate court. They did not. They upheld the appellate court decision, and said "no, you do not have absolute immunity. You only have immunity for official acts. Shove your appeal up your ass, we're sending this back to the trial court."
They ruled against him, folks.
The upsetting thing is that we think all Presidents should be accountable for their official acts as well as their unofficial ones. We believe that nobody should ever be above the law.
As long as the law polices itself, those in it will always view themselves as above it.
I feel like "official acts" would be something like, say, if say a former president died while the US military was attempting to secure confidential documents being stored at a golf resort, the sitting president wouldn't be charged with murder, however, if you were to say, incite a riot and Order an elected official to defy election results to push the election that you clearly lost in your direction, you would not be protected. Since you are working in your own interests, not the interests of the country.
The immunity the court is talking about means they can't be charged with murder for sending troops to war. Such an act is not "above the law". The law specifically authorizes the president to perform such an act.
The legal remedy for a president who improperly sending troops to war is impeachment, not a criminal charge.
The president's immunity extends only to those acts that he is specifically authorized by law to perform. Those are "official" acts. The acts that Trump is accused of are well outside the scope of his former office. The trial court is going to burn his ass. SCOTUS didn't save him.
Even the dissenting supreme court justices stated the opposite of what you're spinning.
No.
Oh they're well aware that they're blatantly lying. Conservatives don't argue in good faith.
I'm not sure they defined what an official act is yet. So I assume that will be challenged by Trump in the lower courts and make it's way up to the scouts. And based on this season's decisions, I would assume they find in favor of Trump.