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Topic: Presidential Immunity

Former special counsel Jack Smith testifies before the House Judiciary Committee about his investigations into President Donald Trump on Jan. 22, 2026. ( SAUL LOEB / AFP via Getty Images)

Jack Smith lays it all out about Trump

Heather Digby Parton
President Donald Trump meets with Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman of Saudi Arabia in the Oval Office on Nov. 18, 2025. (Win McNamee/Getty Images)

Trump's MBS embrace shames all of us

Austin Sarat
President Donald Trump shakes hands with Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts before the State of the Union on Feb. 4, 2020. (Leah Millis-Pool/Getty Images)

John Roberts betrayed America for Trump

Chauncey DeVega
Donald Trump; James Comey (Getty/AP/Salon)

A new Red Scare? This could be worse

Chauncey DeVega
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President Donald Trump arrives to speak to senior military leaders at Marine Corps Base Quantico on Sept. 30, 2025. (Alex Wong/Getty Images)

Trump believes he has a license to kill

Heather Digby Parton
Justice John Roberts and a protest in front of the Supreme Court building (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

SCOTUS is too late for accountability

Jesselyn Radack
Special Counsel Jack Smith delivers remarks on a recently unsealed indictment including four felony counts against former U.S. President Donald Trump on August 1, 2023 in Washington, DC. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

Smith pauses Trump Jan. 6 case

Griffin Eckstein
President Donald Trump shakes hands with Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts before the State of the Union on Feb. 4, 2020. (Leah Millis-Pool/Getty Images)

Donald Trump's supreme enabler

Austin Sarat
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Jack Smith | US Supreme Court (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Smith has a crafty SCOTUS workaround

Norman Eisen, Joyce Vance
Clarence Thomas and John Roberts (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Biden's one trick to fix a broken SCOTUS

Austin Sarat
Aileen Cannon (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images/US District Court for the Southern District of Florida)

Cannon gifts Trump a first immunity win

Austin Sarat
President Donald Trump shakes hands with Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts before the State of the Union on Feb. 4, 2020. (Leah Millis-Pool/Getty Images)

Maddow rips SCOTUS "death squad ruling"

Gabriella Ferrigine
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Donald Trump | US Supreme Court (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

"Stunning" SCOTUS ruling alarms experts

Tatyana Tandanpolie
Samuel Alito and his wife Martha | An appeal to heaven flag and an American flag. (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Alito's flags and a path to compromise

Amanda Marcotte
Jefferson Davis and Donald Trump (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Supreme Court’s Civil War callback

Jeffrey Abramson, Dennis Aftergut
Samuel Alito | Supreme Court Building (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Immunity tests SCOTUS' Alito problem

Amanda Marcotte
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Brett Kavanaugh; Donald Trump (Getty/Salon)

SCOTUS sounds sold on Trump's Big Lie

Heather Digby Parton
Former President Donald Trump speaks to the press as he returns to court after a break in his $250 million civil fraud trial against him and his company October 17, 2023. Trump attends the trial a day after a federal judge, in a separate criminal case, imposed a partial gag order on Trump, on October 16. (TIMOTHY A. CLARY/AFP via Getty Images)

Why Trump is making a fool of his lawyer

Heather Digby Parton
US President Donald Trump speaks at "Save America March" rally in Washington D.C., United States on January 06, 2021 | Special counsel Jack Smith (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Trump to appeals court: Total immunity!

Andrew O'Hehir
Donald Trump and E. Jean Carroll (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Court rejects Trump's immunity claim

Tatyana Tandanpolie
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