Supreme Court rules presidents have absolute immunity for official acts, but not unofficial acts

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The Supreme Court ruled Monday that presidents enjoy absolute immunity for actions taken under their core presidential duties and are presumed to have immunity from criminal prosecution for other behavior.

The ruling was 6-3 divided along ideological lines.

The case before the justices involved Mr. Trump’s challenges to the 2020 presidential election results and his effort to submit slates of electors to shift victory away from President Biden. One wondered whether a president could be immune from prosecution if he ordered the military special forces to assassinate a political rival.But the justices also pondered Mr. Trump’s argument, which he himself often repeats on the campaign trail, that a future president would feel too frightened to take decisive action on major issues if he feared a future prosecution.Mr. Trump missed the oral arguments in the case because he was standing trial in the New York felony case at the time.

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