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This was my thought too. The ruling doesn't seem crazy; being legally liable for every single official act would actually make it untenable for the president to do many things a president needs to do without the real fear of prosecution if anything goes wrong. (And things go wrong! All the time!)

But what's an "official act"? I would hope that courts consider that definition very narrowly. Also disallowing juries to see discussion of official acts as evidence for related wrongdoing is disastrous.

Ultimately, though, it won't matter. Trump has effectively managed to delay this particular trial, and much of the remainder of its pre-trial process, until after the election and after the inauguration. I assume if he wins and takes office, he can instruct the DoJ to dismiss the case against him.

The Georgia case can still proceed, regardless of the outcome of the election, but Willis completely screwed that one up with her idiotic romantic decisions.




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