SCOTUS reveals intent in immunity arguments

Recall when they took the case the issue they chose to address was the following:

"The petition is granted limited to the following question: whether and if so to what extent does a former President enjoy presidential immunity from criminal prosecution for conduct alleged to involve official acts during his tenure in office." 

So the conservatives asked questions about the above with all sorts of hypothetical abstractions while never addressing the facts or law in the specific indictment. In fact they went out of their way to avoid it. Whereas the indictment is about private, criminal acts that can in no way be considered official. Even Trumpler's lawyer, when Coney-Barrett asked specifically about those crimes, agreed they were not official.

But the other conservatives were obsessed with the more hypothetical question as to which acts were official. Which seems to indicate that they would agree with Trumpler's lawyer's suggestion that perhaps the issue should be remanded back to the District Court to determine. Which of course completely ignores the indictment altogether and further delays the ultimate trial beyond the election, which seems their real intention.  

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