In the aftermath of Monday’s Supreme Court presidential immunity ruling, the Usual Suspects on the left and in the media (but I repeat myself) launched into full-blown hysterics even though the ruling clearly noted that a president had immunity with regard to official acts but not unofficial ones.
MSNBC “legal analysts” and CNN’s Jake Tapper, for instance, seemed fixated on the idea – pushed by Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor in her dissent – that a president now could be immune from prosecution if he ordered a hit on a political rival using SEAL Team 6, because in Sotomayor’s view that theoretically would be considered an “official act” of a president.
Squad leader Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) was so incensed that she announced she would soon be filing articles of impeachment, declaring that “It is up to Congress to defend our nation from this authoritarian capture.”
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