Except in the future - If you're part of the official staff for the president - A defense wouldn't be needed. The fact that the president told them to do it wouldn't even be able to come up. It's privileged communication now.
Your argument seems to be, they already had this power - now the Supreme Court can stop them.
When will that ever happen?
You're glossing over the fact that they've declared entire sections of communication off limits going forward. This is new.
This is not same old, same old. The Supreme Court is currently compromised. No-one is going to prosecute a republican president in this environment.
Everything they could do can be construed as official, immune, business after being elected when viewed through the right lens.
If this the president previously had immunity, why was Nixon pardoned?
The Supreme Court was free to interpret this as they saw fit. They've demonstrated that they're not following precedent and are marching to their own beat.
Regarding the clear power grab,
Denying the facts that the other changes the court has made will have untold effects on the ability of states that are gerrymandering based on race:
Denying that folks who actually understand the law, like law professors, and Supreme Court Justices.
There's a different between laypersons and experts in some fields.
I'm not claiming to be an expert in neurology, law, or other fields. I'm deferring to people who have studied these field and asking for their logic and expertise.
You're responding and relying on your logic.
The court is currently controlled by one party. One person openly claims credit for this, and definitely pushed the balance towards one direction.
Our congress is deadlocked by republicans when it comes to anything related to the former president.
They will not pass anything or see cases against their preferred president making them literally immune in practice.
The word soup from kava seems to indicate they feel, that because the president had so much power already, what's the big deal if a little bit more gets added?
Folks who are scholars on the topic seem to think accumulating more power to the Executive and Judicial branches to be a bad thing.
As noted in Supreme Court rulings: The only parties who get to decide if a president is acting incorrectly would be if A. Congress successfully impeaches the president, B. They passed the supreme court's review of what constitutes (non)presidential acts.
In reality both of these branches have been corrupted and owned by 'conservative' interests.
Rulings on SuperPACs, Citizens United, gerrymandering, presidential immunity, insurrection and more are laying the groundwork to remove additional freedoms or protections.
So this has the result of essentially making it possible for the controlling party of these to have a literal dictator whose communications with officials can't be reviewed or considered in prosecution.
Folks who have a lot of experience working with legal matters are voicing concerns on this. This isn't an appeal to authority, rather a matter of consulting folks who are experts and considering their opinions.
You know, the ones that makes your opinion more valid than the opinion expressed by the (dissenting) supreme court justices directly involved in the case?
Things that exist, can be scientifically proven.
We have evidence for the presence of dark matter. This is a placeholder for something we don't know what it is yet.
We don't have evidence of gods in any way that can be tested.
"What can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence" - hitchens razor
No. There's a whole mythology that Smith alluded to.
That mythology and its alleged revelation were supposedly there before smith or anyone else.
Smith is a charlatan who started the myth.
Jesus' myth was started by alleged followers (being generous) at least 50+ years after his alleged existence.
All of the myths attributed to yeshua are torn from other sources and are a patchwork of stories that held attention at the time.
It's more likely yeshua was a myth told by charlatans who needed money to keep spreading the wonderful story of a Jew who could have ruled the Roman empire but fed the poor and healed others instead.
Fact: when science holds an incorrect idea, based on observable evidence - the idea changes to match reality.
If there were observable evidence of your imaginary sky guy, scientists would update their idea or theory to match the observable evidence.
Saying that there might be elephants living on top of clouds doesn't make it true.
Entertaining the idea without proof is not science or even theory.
Even with perfect faith, elephants still live on terra firma.
You're making an incorrect assumption that says the burden of proof is not yours. I'm not making absurd claims about things that defy all logic and physical limits.
You are.
The burden is on you.
Your invisible helper cannot carry this burden for you.