The layers of protection provided in the Supreme Court ruling makes it very easy to justify either immunity or simply excluding all evidence of a non-official crime. It's much broader than just "official vs. non-official". The LegalEagle YouTube channel has a good run through of all the ways in which immunity or effective immunity could be achieved and it's bad. "Top 5 worst Supreme Court rulings ever."

It may not matter at all. Imagine it's deemed unofficial and he wins the election, he will almost definitely pardon himself. Pardon powers were never given reasonable limits.

People have undervalued that the real check on a president's powers is in the hands of the voters. The next strongest checks seem to be the lifespan of the executive and the two term limit.

Here’s how it’s gonna work:

1. Claim immunity in this case? “Well why? You weren’t the president”
2. Claim that the 2020 election was “stolen” and that he rightfully was President when 1 occured
3. Claim 1/6 was “official” too due to a stolen election

Because, sadly, some of those others are still in limbo, Canon will be more than happy to put things on hold “while preceding matters are sorted out”

Because the ruling quite literally says that anything the president does as the president is presumed to have immunity unless the prosecution can argue that applying criminal law couldn't possibly impact on the core work of the office of the president, and that their motivation for doing what they do can't be considered when making that determination.

"As the president" Trump asked the justice department to falsely claim it had discovered election fraud as part of a plot to steal the election.
The supreme Court ruled that this is protected because if you ignore his motivation, punishing the president for consulting with the justice department about election fraud would clearly impede the core functions of the office.

Without considering motivation, would punishing the president for transporting documents he has legal access to to a place he's allowed to take them impact impact the function of the office?

It's a very bad ruling.

Don't they have proof of him having them moved after the fact to try and hide he had them?

Unilaterally taking away your own options doesn't help either. You can be damn sure Trump, and Republicans in general, will do whatever they think they can get away with. Remember when a year before the election was too early to nominate a supreme court Justice, but later it was totally cool to jam one through during the election.

I'm tired of having to choose between "Uvalde shooter" and "Uvalde cops" in every election. Fucking do something or get out of the way.

Too late for this high road bullshit.

What's the point of high-roading if the destination is fascism? You going to hold your head high as you're being dragged off to jail for not submitting your period tracker data to the state, telling yourself that at least you're suffering nobly?

Trump is openly saying he will do that. This won't be fixed without amending the Constitution or SCOTUS receiving that decision.

Here's the problem: we're watching the country errode in incredible time, the far right has sunk it's claws into the government and it seemingly has no way to actually prevent it's damage. All of the checks and balances seem to mean nothing as actual laws that people relied on are being repealed every month. And this might not be the worst of it, if Trump gets elected with a Senate majority, everything will probably flip seemingly overnight.

All we can do is vote and call representatives to tell them to support us. You could probably protest too but be careful out there. If you're someone that might be targeted by an auth right regime, you might want to get your passport ready.

Fascism depends on the erosion of norms. Stooping to their level does nothing but empower them in the long run. If anything, it accelerates the process.

Thank you.

I'm happy to find a rare voice of reason

The president can’t be charged for any crimes they commit when on duty, just like cops and CEOs.

You do know that is a problem, right?

So you're saying that Biden personally needs to do it?