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Re:Supreme Court rules ex-presidents have immunity for offic... by metabagel on Monday July 01, 2024 @05:05PM (#40850674)
But, they didn't invent any new tests here. Baseline, what they want to achieve is to stop the prosecution of Donald Trump in its tracks, and they'd like to use no more and no less overreach to achieve that. If it comes back to them, and they need to hammer harder, they will do that. But, the key goal is to protect Trump.

So, they can invent tests later, after they see how this decision affects the prosecution.

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Re:Supreme Court rules ex-presidents have immunity for offic... by ahmeneeroe-v2 on Monday July 01, 2024 @05:48PM (#40851112)
If act = core constitutional power then absolute immunity elseif act = official then presumed immunity else no immunity end

how is that not a test?

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Re:Supreme Court rules ex-presidents have immunity for offic... by chx on Tuesday July 02, 2024 @01:33PM (#40858781)
> the court has left nearly no sphere in which the president can be said to be acting “unofficially.” And more importantly, the court has left virtually no vector of evidence that can be deployed against a president to prove that their acts were “unofficial.”
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