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For Trump, the day was a win in the narrowest sense and a headache in the larger one: a legal shield that also stalled the case rather than ending it. That is very on-brand. The Court bought him time, but it did not buy him innocence.
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The Supreme Court held that former presidents have absolute immunity for acts within exclusive constitutional authority, presumptive immunity for other official acts, and no immunity for unofficial acts. It remanded Trump’s election-interference case for the district court to separate official from unofficial conduct and decide what can still move forward.