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The Paula Jones case would not speak to this, since these were official government acts and I can’t imagine they are suing him for damages personally (which would be barred by Nixon v. Fitzgerald).
The question of whether the president or other high officials could be deposed in a suit trying to reverse a government as improperly motivated would be dealt with by some other lines of cases I don’t think I’ve read.
*reverse a government decision
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💠The Bill Clinton Articles of Impeachment
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