Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson hit Trump attorney John Sauer with a fairly devastating question during a Supreme Court hearing on former President Donald Trump’s claim of “absolute immunity.”
Sauer is the attorney who argued at an appeals court hearing that a president could order Seal Team Six to assassinate a political rival and not face prosecution unless he were impeached and convicted first.
Trump lost that appeal unanimously, and on Thursday, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments on Trump’s appeal of that appeal — including Sauer’s assassination theory.
Seconds after that stunning exchange, Justice Jackson asked Sauer to explain “What was up with the pardon?”:
JUSTICE KETANJI BROWN JACKSON: Isn’t isn’t the work, though, of the improper motives, at least in the absolute immunity context, to tell us what are official acts and what are not. I mean, I understood that even in the first of all, your ask is absolute immunity, isn’t it? And that’s …
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