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Source: Rolling Stone
When asked by Justice Sonya Sotomayor during arguments on Thursday if the president deciding that his rival is a corrupt person and he orders the military or he orders someone to assassinate him would constitute an official act subject to immunity, attorney D. John Sauer said it could.
It would depend on the hypothetical but we can see that could well be an official act, Sauer told the court.
In another hypothetical, Justice Elena Kagan asked if the president would be immune from prosecution if he sold nuclear secrets to a foreign adversary. Sauer affirmed that the sale was an official act the president would need to first be impeached and convicted before he could be prosecuted.
Sauer also claimed under questioning that a president could theoretically be immune from prosecution if he carried out or attempted to carry out a coup against the government.
Read more: https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/supreme-court-trump-immunity-oral-arguments-1235010538/
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