- The Supreme Court ruled that presidents are immune from criminal prosecution for all official acts.
- Justice Sotomayor said in a dissenting opinion that the ruling was far too broad.
- "Orders the Navy's Seal Team 6 to assassinate a political rival? Immune," she wrote.
In her dissenting opinion to the Supreme Court's ruling on presidential immunity, Justice Sonia Sotomayor said that the conservative majority had enabled presidents to assassinate political rivals without fear of criminal prosecution.