Official acts
I can’t understand this at all. It seems as batshit crazy as trans ideology.
Supreme Court justices in Trump case lean toward some level of immunity
But Trump is the living breathing knockdown argument for why immunity is a really really bad idea.
Conservative U.S. Supreme Court justices signaled sympathy on Thursday to the argument that presidents have some immunity against criminal charges for certain actions taken in office as it heard arguments over Donald Trump’s claim of immunity from prosecution for trying to undo his 2020 election loss.
He claims immunity for trying to steal the election. It’s an absurdity.
D. John Sauer, the lawyer arguing for Trump, painted a dire picture of the presidency without immunity.
“Without presidential immunity from criminal prosecution, there can be no presidency as we know it. For 234 years of American history, no president was ever prosecuted for his official acts,” Sauer told the justices.
Trying to steal an election is not an official act.
A little bit of good news…unless you’re Donald Trump, of course.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/apr/25/e-jean-carroll-trump-defamation
Justice Brown asked a cutting question to Trump’s attorney, why was Nixon pardoned if he couldn’t be prosecuted?
How about if it is ruled that presidents have immunity, Biden shoots Trump and the judges who made that ruling, claims immunity, then proposes a constitutional amendment that presidents do not have immunity from the point the new amendment is passed