The Supreme Court already gave him immunity for all official acts as president. But I realize there is a lot of nuance to that ruling that I don’t understand perfectly.
This doesn’t really change my understanding of how trump is essentially protected from prosecution though- but that could easily be due to my lack of understanding of the intricacies outlined in the article.
The question then becomes whether that presumption of immunity is rebutted under the circumstances. It is the Government’s burden to rebut the presumption of immunity,” Roberts said. But for unofficial acts, “not everything the President does is official. The President is not above the law,”
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