Alison Durkee is a senior reporter covering breaking news, with a focus on legal issues and U.S. politics. She joined Forbes in 2020 and is based in New York City, covering such topics as the Supreme Court, litigation against Donald Trump and clashes over abortion rights. Durkee previously covered U.S.
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Donald Trump Jr. Will Reportedly Join An Anti-ESG Venture Capital Firm Instead Of The White House—Here’s What We Know Former presidents have “absolute immunity” when it comes to anything that’s within their “conclusive and preclusive constitutional authority,” the court ruled, meaning acts that are clearly the president’s explicit responsibility, like pardoning people or firing executive branch officials that they’ve appointed.
In those cases, courts can still convict former presidents based on official acts, but only if prosecutors show the action can be found unlawful without undermining the executive branch—a distinction that the court left up to lower courts to rule on, rather than spelling out what exactly that means in practice themselves.
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