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This is what drives me crazy.
Ok, the president is immune, the people that execute his orders are not.
If the courts started holding people under the president accountable for their actions there would be a change in the wind.
Yes, for the defeatists, holding those people accountable is complex and the president would just pardon them but, it would start a real process of the branches of government holding each other accountable.
We're now going to spend the next decade plus arguing over what exactly entails 'official acts'.
Hes not even immune, they get to decide what an official act is. It depends on how complicit they or how much the current situation plays into their own goals and each justice is an individual. It's a fight, every where. Nothing is black and white, but most importantly, nothing is final.
Since it's the court that decides what's official, I feel that disobeying their order would be considered unofficial, since it's not following the rules, right?
You'd think that, but rationality has long since given way to something sinister.
The president also has unchecked pardon power. He's already shown he's willing to use it to pardon people who tried to overthrow the government for him.