I find it bizarre that, apparently, everything a president does in office is now an "official" act, legal or not, and granting immunity from prosecution.
Welcome to bizarro world.
>>>What makes something an official act? “In dividing official from unofficial conduct, courts may not inquire into the President’s motives,” the justices ruled. And a jury cannot learn about the other parts of a criminal conspiracy that may involve official acts.<<<
https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/analysis-opinion/supreme-court-gives-president-power-king
>>>Even though Trump has defied the law and the Constitution more egregiously in his second term than he did in his first, most legal experts agree that he will face few, if any, of the kind of prosecutions he was confronted with after grudgingly leaving office in 2021. . . .
Philip Lacovara, former counsel to the Watergate special prosecutor and deputy solicitor general, replied by email to my questions about Trump’s legal prospects.
“In my view,” Lacovara wrote,
there is virtually no chance that Trump will face criminal prosecution.
The Supreme Court’s Trump immunity decision last year provides Trump (and any future presidential felons) with a get-out-of-jail-free card for committing federal felonies, and it would be impossible, as a practical matter, for a post-Trump prosecutor to pursue those misdeeds through the criminal process.
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In theory, Trump could be prosecuted if he were to commit a crime that was clearly not in any way shape or form related to his duties as president, but it's hard to conceive what crime it might be.
Provided he uses the government to carry out his personal vendettas and line his pockets, he's in the clear, regardless of what crimes may be committed. Given that the Supreme Court is actively stripping away limits on presidential power, he can probably use the power of the federal government to do almost anything without fear of legal consequences.
Of course, future presidents will also enjoy this power to act with impunity.
