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Justices claim immunity ruling allows presidents to poison staff, have Navy SEALs kill political rivals
Fox News
In their dissents from the Supreme Court's decision on presidential immunity, the court's liberal justices suggested that the majority opinion allows for a slew of alarming scenarios.
But although the majority opinion from Chief Justice John Roberts explicitly stated that the president "is not above the law" and immunity is only a factor when it involves an "official act" — the justices sent the case back to lower courts to determine if the acts at the center of Trump's case were "official" — the ruling raised a series of frightening possibilities, according to the trio of dissenting justices. Brianna Herlihy is a politics writer for Fox News Digital.
Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Ketanji Brown Jackson and Elana Kagan wrote in the primary dissent that the court's majority opinion "makes a mockery of the principle, foundational to our Constitution and system of Government, that no man is above the law."