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“A Rule For The Ages”: Presidential Immunity at the High Court
Initial question: Will Alvin Bragg, Manhattan DA, go down in history as the best lawyer President Trump could have had on the day of these arguments, and perhaps as the one figure most responsible for his re-election? More on that later.
I listened to every minute of the arguments before the Supreme Court in the Presidential Immunity case so you wouldn’t have to. Some, if not most, of the questions were thoughtful, probing, well-framed and obviously designed to elicit more understanding from the attorneys for President Trump and the Special Counsel. And then there were the questions by a member of the liberal wing of the Court which bordered on being downright embarrassing and inappropriate. However, to my pleasant surprise, only one member of that wing of the Court asked such questions. During and after that task, I checked news items from various sources, both liberal and conservative, and came away from that observation thinking I was reading accounts, from the leftist press, of oral arguments in an entirely different case; one framed by what had been hoped for rather than the case which was actually argued on April 24, 2024.