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A court case where courts granted immunity to federal officers who had an objectively reasonable belief they were carrying out federal duties.
The Supreme Court’s current doctrine holds that a president (including a former president) enjoys absolute criminal immunity for exercises of “core” or “conclusive and preclusive” presidential powers ...
Democracies and international courts have split the difference: specialized international tribunals and the reject absolute for core international crimes, while national courts still often recognize s...
A gubernatorial declaration of a state of emergency does not, by itself, shield a governor from federal criminal prosecution; federal and state jurisdictions are separate sovereigns and emergency orde...
Courts have long held that federal officers are not categorically immune from state criminal prosecution, but federal law and judicial doctrine give strong protections when officers were “reasonably c...