Rick Hasen: “After a couple of hours of oral argument, it appears that the Supreme Court is unlikely to embrace either Donald Trump’s extreme position—that would seem to give immunity for a president who ordered an assassination of a rival or staged a coup—or the government’s position that a former

Donald Trump’s attorney John Sauer argued before the Supreme Court that — depending on the circumstances — assassinating a political rival could be considered an official act, CNN reports. The Washington Post notes Sauer also argued that a president ordering a military coup could be considered an

“The Supreme Court, in its last argument of the term, will consider on Thursday whether former President Donald Trump must face trial on charges that he plotted to subvert the 2020 election,” the New York Times reports. “The court’s answer to that question will be a major statement on the scope of

“Donald Trump‘s inner circle doesn’t expect the Supreme Court to go along with his extreme arguments about executive power in the immunity case before the justices. But what the high court does now is almost beside the point: Trump already won,” Rolling Stone reports. “Bringing the case before the

Brian Beutler: “Ahead of Thursday’s Supreme Court argument over Donald Trump’s claim to immunity for everything he did while president, the New York Times published a stirring call for the Supreme Court to rule against Trump with haste and in no uncertain terms—so that Trump can’t tee up a new