The U.S. Supreme Court appeared skeptical of Donald Trump’s claim of absolute immunity from criminal prosecution for his attempts to overturn his 2020 election loss. This is liberal Justice Sonia Sotomayor questioning Trump’s lawyers.

Justice Sonia Sotomayor: “We would be creating a situation in which we would be saying — this is what you’re asking us to say, which is that a president is entitled not to make a mistake, but, more than that, a president is entitled, for total personal gain, to use the trappings of his office — that’s what you’re trying to get us to hold — without facing criminal liability.”

Conservative justices wrangled with whether the charges against Trump constituted “private acts” or “official acts,” which could potentially be shielded from prosecution. But a resolution to the pivotal case could be further delayed — possibly beyond November’s election — as the Supreme Court weighed sending the case back to lower courts for further deliberation.