Criminal prosecution, presidential immunity and former presidents - The Constitution annotated
Sotomayor, J., dissenting
In sum, the majority today endorses an expansive vision
of Presidential immunity that was never recognized by the
Founders, any sitting President, the Executive Branch, or
even President Trump’s lawyers, until now. Settled understandings of the Constitution are of little use to the majority
in this case, and so it ignores them.
The Supreme Court's Power Grab:
David Cole - Litigation Director, ACLU:
In previous terms, the Roberts Court has vacillated between naked assertions of power, as when it overturned the right to abortion in 2022, and more restrained rulings that rose above partisan divides, as when it last year affirmed that state courts and state constitutions can constrain state legislatures in redistricting. This term, restraint was largely out, as the Republican justices repeatedly upended or refused to follow precedents in order to further conservative ends on voting rights, presidential power, the treatment of the homeless, immigration, and, most consequentially, the authority of the administrative state.
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