Was Donald Trump, as president, a king? The US supreme court thinks so | Moira Donegan

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

48% : In its holding, the court's majority made a flimsy distinction between the immunity they are granting to presidents for "core powers" and "official" acts - terms whose precise meanings they don't define - and the criminal liability that Trump and other presidents still have for "unofficial" acts.
43% : In practice, Trump - and any subsequent president, should we ever get to have one - is now unaccountable to either legislative checks or criminal law.
39% : In ruling that Trump enjoys 'absolute immunity' for 'official acts' as president, the court has set a disturbing precedentIs the president a king?
38% : On Monday, in its very last ruling of the term, the chief justice, John Roberts, writing for the court's six conservatives, held in Trump v United States that Donald Trump has "absolute immunity" from criminal prosecution for all acts that can be interpreted as part of the official course of his "core" duties, and "presumptive" immunity for all other official acts.
36% : On the verge of an election in which Trump may well be restored to presidential power, the court has officially declared that he cannot be held accountable for abuses of that power in a criminal court.
36% : They know, as well as we do, that Trump aspires to usher in an era of corruption and autocracy.
32% : What remains of the January 6 prosecution will now be remanded to a lower court, which will be tasked with determining what charges, if any, can proceed against Trump under the court's new, unprecedented vision of executive immunity.
19% : Much of Jack Smith's criminal case against Trump has thereby been voided.
16% : The court said that Trump cannot be charged for some of his "official" actions in the lead-up to the insurrection, including his attempts to pressure Mike Pence and his efforts to weaponize the justice department to force some states to reverse their election results.

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