🧩 BND Motif Index · M1262
Absolute immunity
A leader is said to have been put beyond the reach of the law, immune for whatever he does in office, with powers no king has: the Supreme Court's 'absolute immunity, you are above the law', 'a get-out-of-jail-free card'. The breach of No one is above the law.
- 1claim filed under it
- 2left shows it came up on
⚠️ A story people tell, not a claim that it's true.
A motif is the shape of a story as its tellers tell it, named the way a folklorist names a tale type, so the same story told about other people, by the other side or in another year lands in the same place. Some of the claims below are true, many are false. Arguing against a story is often a story of its own, its answer (Voter fraud is answered by Voter suppression, Lawfare by No one is above the law), and we file it there; where no answer has a motif yet, the arguments against a story sit with its tellings.
🪜 Its family
what it rests on, what rests on it, and the motifs that answer it
↔️ answers and mirrors:
- 🧩 No one is above the law counter: the leader put above the law
⏱️ answered 6 days after this was first told here (2026-10-05 → 2026-10-11)
🎙️ Who it came up with
the shows we follow where its claims came up, by the show's lean
⚖️ center 0
🦗 none of our center shows, so far
🐘 right 0
🦗 none of our right shows, so far
"Came up on" means one of its claims was heard on the show: told, reported or argued against. We don't yet mark which. Show leans are our own grouping of the shows we transcribe.
🧶 Its claims
what's been told in this shape, newest first, in our words, with where each was heard
- 2026-10-20 “The Supreme Court has granted Donald Trump absolute immunity.”
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M1262 · first seen 2026-10-26 · what this is · how the index works