Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson seemed to reject arguments from former President Trump’s attorneys Thursday that the justices must distinguish between personal and official acts to determine whether a president could be prosecuted, warning the claims threaten turning the Oval Office into a “seat of criminality.”
The court heard oral arguments Thursday for Trump’s immunity case, in which the former president claims he cannot be prosecuted for alleged crimes committed while he was in office, arguing that legal liability limits the president’s ability to act.
Jackson noted that presidents have access to “the best attorneys in the world” to determine whether any of their actions are…
