re: Anyone here read the SCOTUS ruling on Presidential immunity?

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Kagan isn't DEI. I think she's wrong on virtually every issue but she's smart

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I'm not a court junkie but that's always been my impression. Sotomayor is the dumbass, and I think a lot of people get them confused.

Fortunately for both of them Ketanji displaced the "wise latina" as the most obviously inept & unqualified justice, and her name is easy to remember.

Facebook is kindergarten compared to what they are scared and outraged about it on Twitter X

It was a sane decision overall, just codified. If times were saner, there probably would not be hardly any uproar over this, because it was always understood to be the case. The President needs to listen to advice from his advisors and cabinet members without having a lawyer constantly vetting each and every step. He has to be able at times to act unilaterally on that advice under his belief in what the statute allows.

The only question I have for a sitting President, though is where is the ultimate line on official vs unofficial. The court says it can and should be determined by the lower court Judge. If this were Bush, Clinton or even Obama, I would say no big deal. But in this age of Lawfare , it is not as cut and dry. Maybe Shakespeare was right, " the first thing we do is kill all the lawyers"

Yep. That was gratuitous and unnecessary. You have to give the trial court some latitude.