July 6, 2024 3:00pm by David Farrar

Explain the SCOTUS immunity decision

There’s a lot of hysteria over the SCOTUS decision on presidential immunity. This chart sums up what they actually decided quite well.

There's a lot of misunderstanding of the Supreme Court's ruling in the presidential immunity #January6th case.

We created this infographic @just_security to explain:

– the pathways open to Jack Smith
– the scope of immunity from prosecution for all future presidents pic.twitter.com/XlFOwLldp8
— Ryan Goodman (@rgoodlaw) July 1, 2024

So basically:

Constitutional acts: Absolute immunity
Official but non-constitutional acts: Presumptive immunity
Unofficial acts: No immunity

Seems fairly reasonable.

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