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CaptainTruth

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25. Presidential immunity for official actions was established by a 1973 OLC memo...

Reply to V850i (Reply #13)

Wed Apr 1, 2026, 01:29 PM

Apr 1

...& was reexamined & reaffirmed in 2000 by the OLC (Executive Branch Office of Legal Counsel).
It's been DOJ policy & practice since the original memo, issued in the wake of Nixon, more than 50 years ago. (See Mueller for a notable example.) OLC opinions, like the immunity memo, have been considered binding on Executive Branch agencies unless overturned by the courts.
Nothing was made up out of whole cloth for the 2024 SCOTUS decision, the legal & Constitutional arguments for it, in addition to the policy & practice, were 50 years old at that point.
Of course... where were these details published by our media? Nowhere that I saw. I only know because I've been paying attention to the consequences of that 1973 memo for decades.

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