Lawyer Joan Biskupic, CNN's Supreme Court analyst, described Justice Sonia Sotomayor as 'dripping with disdain' as she read her dissent to the ruling that former presidents have absolute immunity for official acts but no immunity for private acts.With the 6-3 ruling, the court sent the Department of Justice's election interference case against former President Donald Trump back to a lower court in Washington, D.C., to figure out how to determine what constitutes an official act.
'Sotomayor went on to list examples of acts that could be allowed by the ruling in what she calls a 'law-free zone' around the office of the president.'The President of the United States is the most powerful person in the country, and possibly the world,' Sotomayor continued. 'When he uses his official powers in any way, under the majority's reasoning, he now will be insulated from criminal prosecution.
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