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CNN anchor Kaitlan Collins pressed an attorney for former President Trump on a line of questioning by Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan in the former president’s presidential immunity case at the Supreme Court Thursday. “What are the circumstances where ordering a military coup is an official act of the presidency?” Collins said, referring to a…

Justices on the Supreme Court expressed doubt about former President Trump's lawyers' claims that presidential immunity could cover an attempted coup or the assassination of a political rival, but they appeared willing to provide some protection from criminal prosecution. This could lead to a new series of legal conflicts.