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nonofficial

/ ˌnɒnəˈfɪʃəl /

adjective

  1. not official or formal
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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First, it was the radical July 1 immunity ruling of the Supreme Court majority that sent the case back to the district court to apply its anti-constitutional holding that only “nonofficial” presidential actions could be subject to criminal prosecution.

From Slate

On the other hand, if the court found insufficient evidence of nonofficial criminal conduct, under the July 1 immunity decision, that case would be over.

From Slate

As Rick Pildes, a constitutional scholar, pointed out online while following the oral arguments, the justices have all the facts they need in order to decide, at the very least, which of the acts Trump is charged with are indisputably nonofficial, and thus not immune from prosecution.

“It may continue to say that there is no absolute immunity for nonofficial acts, but that whether January 6 constitutes an official act is a matter for a jury to decide.”

From Salon

Government officials who face lawsuits for blocking their followers on social media “have asked the court to adopt a legal position that President Trump advocated in 2020 when he, too, was sued for blocking critics on Twitter: that their social media activity was private, nonofficial action to which the First Amendment does not apply,” Aaron Tang writes.

From Slate

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