 Of course, the left has immediately seized on the SEAL Team 6 hypothetical. Sonia Sotomayor in the minority basically says that the president wants to assassinate his political rival. Now he totally can, which is not true at all. In fact, the Supreme Court says that the president is bound by the rule of law in the Constitution and that there are acts presidents say are official acts or acts within his power that are clearly not. For example, the president cannot violate the civil rights of American citizens.