# Has the recent big Supreme Court ruling changed what a sitting president can do or what can be done to a sitting president?

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**Created:** [July 5, 2024, 7:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-the-recent-big-supreme-court-ruling-changed-what-a-sitting-president-can-do-or-what-can-be-done-to-a-sitting-president/1003764 "2024-07-05T07:57:13Z")\
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**Author:** ![Leaper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/4bbf92/32.png) [@Leaper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaper)\
**Post date:** [July 7, 2024, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-the-recent-big-supreme-court-ruling-changed-what-a-sitting-president-can-do-or-what-can-be-done-to-a-sitting-president/1003764/37 "2024-07-07T01:07:29Z")

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Okay, so the assertion is that before this ruling, there was a very tiny but theoretical chance that a sitting president moving to poison civil servants he didn’t like would be arrested and tried for murder, and this ruling specifically eliminated that tiny but theoretical chance?

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