sooooo, if the President "hypothetically" ordered a military coup , that might be an "official act" and so immune?

...and why would that make you nervous hmm?

Marshall Hall alert! People discussing America. Watch out PP  you'll be invited to take this to another US lawyer's forum

The supreme court is corrupt and bent. 

Asti she's a sane one.  In a minority.  Alito was trying to create some sort of "immunity framework" for Trump.

I think it is pretty damn unlikely - to say the least - that Trump would order a military coup, but even if he did, do the legal technicalities really matter?

Either it succeeds and he becomes King (in which case the fine details of Presidential immunity are irrelevant), or he fails and is deposed by the armed forces themselves and chucked in prison with the legalities to be sorted out later. 

There is no situation in which there is an attempted military coup and people are like “oh well, there are some legal technicalities which might mean that he is technically immune from prosecution, so I guess we better forget it all happened and continue with business as usual!”

How can "the legalities be sorted out later" if the supreme court explicitly rules that it wouldn't be illegal?

Trump, not arguing he's innocent, he's arguing he's immune.

If SCOTUS upholds this preposterous idea, how long should it take Biden to send Seal Team 6 down to MaL?

Or, he could declare SCOTUS as corrupt and have them all arrested and sent to Gitmo.

As Nixon once said "If a President does it, it isn't illegal" (Nixon was wrong)

I agree PP. All too conceptual. Weren’t these people watching on Jan 6? And obvs the Trump appointees are crap lawyers anyway. Wouldn’t it be great if the CIA just made the whole debate irrelevant? 

Those saying he wouldn’t.

Remember the photo op outside St John’s church. 

Trump is a fvcking psychopath who would make Putin look like a perfect gent if he could get away with it.