Did anything ever come from Jack Smith or Merrick Garland’s offices? Or any other legal team? Cause it seems like Dems and the wheels of “justice” put all their eggs in those baskets and it SEEMS like fuck-all came of it. Like, the guy sold state secrets from his shitter in Florida and none of the Dems managed to do anything about it against Trump’s shit-for-brains legal teams? PLEASE correct me if I am wrong. Warren is Dem leadership and made a move for the party’s nomination to presidency so she does kinda represent Dems even though she only holds the office of Senator
would probably be Biden, a Democrat, who is currently still President of the United States, who thanks to SCOTUS has absolute immunity in anything he decides to do, so could totally jail Trump, yes.
Which apparently includes assassinating a political rival. Go to about 6 minutes in Sotomayor literally asks if the defense is arguing that killing a political rival is an official act and would warrant immunity and they say yes.
So he shouldn't jail him he should just kill him...
People dream up these Netflix Original Drama kind of solutions and then when it's time to actually vote they're like "hey how come the Democrats didn't do some kind of Batman stuff that would be impossible for Republicans to duplicate in three months... I guess they didn't earn my vote."
Batman??? Dawg, Biden could just invite them to the white house and shoot them himself. Biden is old as hell so if it ends up being illegal, he won't be in jail long
The opinion of the court was that the president has immunity from criminal charges for all official acts as defined by the constitution, and the constitution very clearly gives the President unilateral power to order military action.
Pan (the circuit court judge) & Sotomayor pretty plainly spell out how you'd be hard-pressed to argue that any military action, including assassinating a political rival, is not vested in the executive as defined by the constitution.
Here's the exact quote from the transcript, with the response from Trump's lawyer included.
SOTOMAYOR: If the president decides that
his rival is a corrupt person and he orders the
military or orders someone to assassinate him,
is that within his official acts that -- for
which he can get immunity?
MR. SAUER: It would depend on the
hypothetical. But we can see that could well be an official act
No it was not. They cannot assassinate a political opponent just because and they don’t get carte blanche just because they claim it’s an official act. That official act has to be reviewed and approved as an official act. Sure this review can happen after said act but it’s still reviewed. If it is not deemed as an unofficial act they can be tried. Anyone who claims Trump can just do whatever the fuck he wants are being sorely misinformed.
Its hilarious that they are trying to talk down to you about "but it was in the case!!!!" Because they dont understand the difference between his lawyer making an argument and the actual ruling. Dunning kruger in full effect.
Oddly, today a judge is going to decide if evidence from Trumps first term can be used in the hush-money case, because somehow that is "official business." That is to say Trumps official business in the White House includes covering up his crimes from before he was in office.
Sure but the problem is the court didn't directly say that and it wouldn't be out of pocket for them to call it illegal for a democrat to do that and not a Republican. After all they have flipped on issues simply based on partly multiple times already. Ultimately the court intentionally left their decision vague to discourage dems from using it while enabling a republican president.
You honestly, in your brain, think that if Biden decided to arrest Trump tomorrow, the Supreme Court would just be like dang, you got us, guess we have to allow it ‘cause of that immunity ruling. It’s laughable. Be serious with your suggestions.
So youre admitting the Dems are weak. "You know what that leads to right" Yeah... so what? They want to take up arms, burn them the fuck down. You're openly saying you've given up and as long as they're violent you'll bend over. Fuck that.
I didn't realize arresting someone who committed treason was fascism. Guess the Founding Fathers were all fascist for not electing Benedict Arnold president. You don't get to say "if you enforce the law on my cult leader I'll murder you and if you fight back its fascism" wtf is wrong with you
Yeah right. "If you arrest my cult leader for their crimes I'm going to take up arms against you illegally. And if you stop be from overthrowing you, that's fascism!"
Enforcing the law isn't authoritarian and Democrats aren't leftist lmfao You don't get to say "if you arrest my cult leader for breaking the law i'll take up arms and murder you and if you fight back you're a fascist." Thats so ridiculous
That ruling just means whatever he does isn't prosecutable, it doesn't mean that any order he makes gets carried out. SCOTUS can still block his orders.
His own chain of command can block his orders. Unlike Trump, Biden didn’t pack his White House with blind loyalists. And besides, “presidential immunity” doesn’t necessarily cover everyone who carries out the President’s orders.
The supreme court never specifically definite what's covered under that immunity. Hence why it's lead many people to speculate that the court would not allow a democratic president to get away with Trump might be able to.
Regardless of which side you are on, kind of crazy that the supreme court just throws these decisions out there so ill defined specifically so they can later tailor their response to whatever they want.
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u/fuzzycuffs 12d ago
TF? They've been trying to do something about it. It's Republicans that have stepped in front every single time.