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What the Supreme Court is doing right in considering Trump’s immunity case

  • Written by Claire B. Wofford, Associate Professor of Political Science, College of Charleston
imageThere was a lot of press attention paid to the Trump immunity hearing at the Supreme Court building on April 25, 2024.Mandel NGAN / AFP/Getty Images

Following the nearly three-hour oral argument about presidential immunity in the Supreme Court on April 25, 2024, many commentators were aghast. The general theme, among legal and political experts...

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