CLAIM: Extremist elements of the left have essentially argued that the president can now order the assassination of Americans and political opponents following the Supreme Court’s ruling on Monday.
Chief Justice John Roberts wrote the majority opinion for the conservative wing of the court, which said that “under our constitutional structure of separated powers, the nature of Presidential power entitles a former President to absolute immunity from criminal prosecution for actions within his conclusive and preclusive constitutional authority.”
Under that framework, members of the hard left have charged that the Supreme Court essentially ruled the president has carte blanche authority to kill whomever he wants while in office so long as it falls under “official” duties. Writing for, Elie Mystal reasoned that a “president can go on a four-to-eight year crime spree and then retire from public life, never to be held accountable”:
And there is essentially nothing we can do to change it. The courts created qualified immunity for public officials, but it can be undone by state or federal legislatures if they pass a law removing that protection. Not so with absolute presidential immunity. The court here says that absolute immunity is required by the separation of powers inherent in the Constitution, meaning that Congress cannot take it away.
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