Official acts

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Ophelia Benson

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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.

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3 responses to “Official acts”

  1. Acolyte of Sagan Avatar
    Acolyte of Sagan

    A little bit of good news…unless you’re Donald Trump, of course.

    A federal judge on Thursday upheld the verdict and award of more than $83m to writer E Jean Carroll in a defamation case against Donald Trump after he called her a liar for accusing him of sexually assaulting her.

    Judge Lewis Kaplan, a senior district judge on the US district court for the southern district of New York, denied Trump’s motion for a new trial and affirmed that Carroll suffered harm caused by Trump’s 2019 public statements.

    “Mr Trump’s argument is entirely without merit both as a matter of law and as a matter of fact,” Kaplan wrote in his opinion released on Thursday.

    https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/apr/25/e-jean-carroll-trump-defamation

  2. Eava Avatar
    Eava

    Justice Brown asked a cutting question to Trump’s attorney, why was Nixon pardoned if he couldn’t be prosecuted?

  3. Jim Baerg Avatar
    Jim Baerg

    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

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