Seat of criminal activity

Justice Jackson: Absolute immunity could make the Oval Office "the seat of criminal activity in this country"

From CNN's Tierney Sneed

Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson warned that absolute immunity could turn the Oval Office into "the seat of criminal activity in this country."

She said there would no incentive for presidents to follow the law while in the White House if they could never face criminal prosecution.

Her stinging remarks came after she pressed Donald Trump's attorney D. John Sauer on why presidents should not be required to follow the law when acting in their official capacity.

"There are lots of people who have to make life and death decisions" and still face the risk of criminal prosecution, she said.

After the justices had spent several exchanges trying to decipher the line between a president's private and public acts, Jackson aimed to challenge the assumption that officials acts should be immune.

"You seem to be worried about the president being chilled. I think that we would have a really significant opposite problem if the president wasn’t chilled," she said.