For all the talk of textualism and originalism from the right wing of the Supreme Court, nowhere in the US Constitution is there an explicit mention of presidential immunity. The Founders were no strangers to the concept of immunity. If the Founders had originally intended to grant the President immunity, it would have done so explicitly in the text of the Constitution, just as it did so for Members of Congress via the Speech and Debate Clause. Selective textualism and originalism is the modus operandi of the Supreme Court.
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