SCOTUS Hears Trump’s Argument Over Immunity [Video]

Within the first minutes of the US Supreme Court hearing oral arguments Thursday in a landmark case over whether former President Donald Trump is immune from prosecution over his efforts to overturn the 2020 election, one of the justices posed a hypothetical question about a president ordering the military to assassinate a political rival.

“If the president decides that his rival is a corrupt person, and he orders the military or orders someone to assassinate him, is that within his official acts for which he can get immunity?” Justice Sonia Sotomayor asked Trump’s attorney D. John Sauer.

Sauer argued it could.

“It would depend on the hypothetical,” Sauer said. “We can see that could well be an official act.”

Sotomayor interjected, “It could, and why? Because he’s doing it for personal reasons.”

“And isn’t that the nature of the allegations here, that he’s not doing these acts in furtherance of an official responsibility, he’s doing it for personal gain?” Sotomayer asked.

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