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If a president assassinates his political rivals I don't think you can say it's, "an issue for voters or congress to decide on." That would be impossible, since anyone the voters wanted to replace the sitting executive or his allies would just be arrested or murdered outright (as an official act, no less!).

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I don't think anyone in the ruling outside of Sotomayor implies that murdering political rivals would fall under an official duty of the president as outlined in the constitution.

I disagree, since a good many people seem ready to accept that Trump trying to overturn the results of a free and fair election (which in my book is pretty much on par with murdering political rivals since the point of murdering a rival is so that they don't get elected), is an "official duty".

Would the court also need to carefully consider and rule on whether arresting or murdering a disagreeing judge is an "official act" by the President?

Probably not. Arresting disagreeing judges would be a violation of due process, as is murdering US citizens without a trial.

At least that was the tentative conclusion last time this was brought up: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/feb/22/obama-...

It might be a violation of the law and clearly illegal, but that does not mean it is not an official act for which the president is immune.

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