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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't see how a president could possibly be prosecuted for bribery under this decision.  By definition, bribery is receipt of money or other thing of value in exchange for an official act.  Official acts are now absolutely immune, and prosecutors can't even introduce evidence about them.  So you can get stacks of gold bars al a Menendez, but prosecutors couldn't introduce any evidence that those gold bars were in exchange for signing legislation for example.[/quote]

But why would you be criminallly charging a president with piddling little bribery?  That's just a peccadillo compared to bugging an opponent's office or fomenting a couple.

The Supreme Court basically divided a line between really really big bad actions that are chargeable and small or medium bad acts that have immunity.  [/quote]

That's not remotely what the decision says.[/quote]

The opinion draws a line between official acts, which are absolute immunity including prohibiting inquiries into motive or evidence, and other acts including outer official and unofficial acts with no immunity.  The letter about fake election fraud was considered part of official duties, since the letter was not sent.  However, had the letter been sent, then that would have been an unofficial act, opening inquiry into motive and evidence.

IOW, really really bad acts do not have absolute immunity.  [/quote]

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