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A. This is the dissent from Sotomayor, panned by pretty much every major legal figure. It is not a ruling, it is not binding, and it is not necessarily accurate
by ilikehurdles 2y ago
A. This is the dissent from Sotomayor, panned by pretty much every major legal figure. It is not a ruling, it is not binding, and it is not necessarily accurate. Just like, I don't know, listen to a Supreme Court podcast if you're not going to read the ruling [1].
B. That has nothing to do with the power of the Supreme Court relative to Brazil's. Our Supreme Court doesn't arrest people or order the military around.
[1]: https://thedispatch.com/podcast/advisoryopinions/trump-is-absolutely-immune-kind-of/ https://thedispatch.com/podcast/advisoryopinions/trump-is-ab...
- anigbrowl 2y agoIt was not 'panned by pretty much every major legal figure'. And yes I read the whole opinion as well as the dissents.
- Izkata 2y agoThe immunity is for official duties in his role as president, which doesn't include those examples.
- anigbrowl 2y agoAnd Sotomayor correctly pointed out that it's trivially easy to assert that any given action was an official duty, thereby gaining the benefit of presumptive immunity pending a court's detailed determination.
- Izkata 2y agoAlso C) such immunity can still be removed by impeachment.
- anigbrowl 2y agoSure, unless a whole political party is corrupted.