affirmed that the president MUST obey the courts and also the congressional subpoena... that is, checks and balances.

official

Insurrection, conspiracies to fudge election results, fake electors, lobbying state officials for more votes .... these are not official duties.

Chump doesn't have a hope of winning the "presidential immunity" argument because ...

... in August 1974 Nixon asked for and received a blanket pardon from Gerald Ford. It was Ford's first act once he was secretly sworn in as the new president, after Nixon secretly resigned.

That's it, end of story. If Nixon or any other President had "presidential immunity" then there would be no need for a pardon.

"... too distracting for a president and make him unnecessarily cautious when carrying out his responsibilities."

Trump is not President now. This rationality is void.

It was on this day in 1974 that the U.S. Supreme Court dealt a fatal blow to President Richard Nixon’s presidency, in a decision that led to the release of the Watergate tapes.



The case of United States v. Nixon reached the Court on July 8, 1974, after it had concluded its prior term. The Justices found themselves in new territory as the Court had to deal with an executive privilege claim filed by President Nixon’s attorneys.

A grand jury had returned indictments against seven Nixon aides, including former Attorney General John Mitchell, as part of the Watergate investigation. Leon Jaworski, a special prosecutor appointed by President Nixon, and the seven defendants wanted access to audio tapes of conversations recorded by President Nixon in the White House.
https://constitutioncenter.org/blog/anniversary-of-united-states-v-nixon


I hope they do the right thing.