In dissent from the U.S. Supreme Court's recent decision to grant presidents some immunity from criminal prosecution, Justice Sonia Sotomayor asked whether a president would really be immune if he used his military authority to assassinate a political rival, or took a bribe for exercising his pardon power. (All the justices used the male gender.) Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson similarly asked whether immunity would apply if a president exercised his removal power by poisoning the attorney general to death.