The Lament of Fani and Alvin
State prosecutions of the 45th president may be beyond his pardon power but he could yet be immune under the Supreme Court’s latest ruling

Pour one out for the state prosecutors. District Attorneys Alvin Bragg and Fani Willis awoke this morning to a new legal landscape after the Supreme Court ruled that presidents are presumptively immune for their official acts, and absolutely immune for those duties that are “exclusively and preclusively” their purview. Only unofficial acts are fair game. Where, then, does that leave the cases launched against Trump from New York and Fulton counties?
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