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[–] 4 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Can private citizens who feel they can prove they’ve been directly harmed by presidential acts, sue the president?

No. Pretty explicitly no.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 days ago (1 child)

    It's an interesting argument to debate, and has been since the beginning. What's really telling is how much Trump is mentioned in that wiki vs. the past Presidents. Almost as if he's seeing how far he can push the envelope.

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  • [–] 0 points 3 days ago

    There's a theory that he's playing 11-D chess and strategically testing the system through clever probs and prods.

    There's another theory that he's always just done whatever he felt like, damn the consequences. And since there isn't any material opposition to a billionaire in a plutocracy like the US, nobody stops him now any more than anyone has ever stopped him before now.

    What’s really telling is how much Trump is mentioned in that wiki vs. the past Presidents.

    I'd say Nixon was the real historical test case, at least from the perspective of the article. The Trump Election Obstruction case is more interesting because it's an edge case, even within very expansive immunity provisions. It was specifically with respect to Nixon v. Fitzgerald, which had ostensibly defined the boundaries of Presidential immunity... until it didn't.

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