Following the Supreme Court’s 6-3 ruling, which acknowledges that a former president has absolute immunity for his core constitutional powers, and beyond that, at least presumptive immunity for official conduct, MSNBC decided it would be a good idea to bring on a legal analyst who claims former presidents could order assassinations and get away with it.
This decision today makes it so imperative that the person who holds the office understand the limits and exercises those powers with restraint because the thing that is not dealt with here is the hypothetical that was dealt within the court of appeals about SEAL Team Six. And it is unclear how they studiously avoid dealing with that because you could make the argument that is official conduct.
The anchor asked the legal analyst how he would make that argument. He said:
You would sit there and say I have determined as…
