• disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    You don’t understand the ruling.

    It is not giving POTUS any additional authority. It grants POTUS immunity from criminal prosecution of a crime related to an official act.

    Biden could personally slap the ice cream cone out of your hand and get away with it, if a court ruled it to be an official act. No one else is immune from crime committed on his behalf.

    This was tailored to Trump’s insurrection charges. If SCOTUS granted POTUS more executive privilege, Biden would just overrule SCOTUS and exempt felons from presidential candidacy.