Dear Editor,
SCOTUS made a pronouncement on June 30th on the matter of presidential immunity, basically saying the president of the United States must have absolute immunity for Official Acts. His private acts do not have protection from prosecution.
So, what are Official Acts? What are not Official Acts?
The following quote is taken from yesterday’s NYT frontpage analysis story by Maggie Haberman:
“When Trump tried to overturn the results of an election he lost in 2020, it was not the official act of a president,” J.B. Pritzker, the Democratic governor of Illinois, said in a statement. “It was the act of a despotic narcissist attempting to overthrow our democracy to cling to power, and he needs to answer for his actions.”
How did the United States end up having a 9-member court – with 6 Republican- and 3 Democrat Justices? [This would make for an interesting study].
Two of the Republican Justices have demonstrated hard-core anti-democrat prejudices. For other reasons both Justices should have recused themselves from sitting/deciding this case.
Yours faithfully,
Mike Persaud
