Fani Willis says there's no circuit split to resolve. And, she argues, Mark Meadows' efforts are too-clever-by-half – framing the 11th Circuit's decision as out of step when it's the only such step.
I don’t think it’s an effective legal strategy to argue that the entire executive branch deserves absolute immunity. Yes, the Supreme Court case was totally ridiculous, but it didn’t go that far.
And if the Supreme Court does go that far, I think it has just made itself irrelevant. Because if the executive branch has absolute immunity, then they don’t have to listen to anything that courts say, ever again. It’s unlikely that the Supreme Court would ever vote to make itself totally irrelevant and destroy the entire government while it’s at it, but they do bizarre things from time to time, so if he wants to throw a hail mary, all right.
I don’t think it’s an effective legal strategy to argue that the entire executive branch deserves absolute immunity. Yes, the Supreme Court case was totally ridiculous, but it didn’t go that far.
And if the Supreme Court does go that far, I think it has just made itself irrelevant. Because if the executive branch has absolute immunity, then they don’t have to listen to anything that courts say, ever again. It’s unlikely that the Supreme Court would ever vote to make itself totally irrelevant and destroy the entire government while it’s at it, but they do bizarre things from time to time, so if he wants to throw a hail mary, all right.