Justice Sonia Sotomayor, who wrote a stinging dissent that was joined by the other liberal justices, warned that a future president could order US forces to kill a rival and get away with it.
“When he uses his official powers in any way, under the majority’s reasoning, he now will be insulated from criminal prosecution. Orders the Navy’s Seal Team 6 to assassinate a political rival? Immune,” Sotomayor wrote. “Organizes a military coup to hold onto power? Immune. Takes a bribe in exchange for a pardon? Immune. Immune, immune, immune.”
Why wait till the future?
He should do it and then immediately drop out of the race like everyone wants. Please.
I want his press secretary give a conference TODAY and say something like:
I want The Press to engage in a thought experiment with me. Imagine if our president came out and said, "The Supreme Court has granted Presidents immunity from prosecution in matters of the official duty. Well, it is my official duty to warn America that the Court is corrupt. It has been rotted out by folks like Harlan Crow who has corrupted the already dubious ethics of Clarence Thomas into the little stooge he’s become. Both these men should be dead. So, too, should Altio and Kavanaugh. I wouldn’t lose any sleep if I woke up tomorrow to news there were three particular open seats for what was once the highest court. Heck, I might even pardon the guilty. Of course Congress would try to block me from appointing replacement Justices, but it is possible that folks like Mitch McConnell, Jim Jordon, Ted Cruz and others might meet with some tragically fatal accidents, and then maybe Congress wouldn’t have so many objections. I can’t advocate for that, of course. I might be tickled pink to see it, but I can’t tell anyone to go out and do it. I won’t even suggest it! And remember: a presidential pardon only works on federal cases. States might prosecute anyone committing such heinous acts. On the other hand, if a President had a privileged conversation about the Constitution with a State Governor, well… that Governor might decide to do a favor for that unindictable President. God Bless America and God Bless our troops.
– at which point the Press Secretary calls for questions.
– and while he’s at it, maybe Biden could see that Alito and Thomas met with some unfortunate fatality… and if congress does not think he should be allowed to replace them, perhaps they, too, would suddenly find their numbers shrinking as the pile of bodies mounts (I’m looking at you, Mitch McConnell).
Arrest them under the patriot act.
That’s the thing
If he has total immunity, doesn’t it mean he can just sign into law to remove the dodgy Trump justices?
The really sad part is that people on the fox news youtube are calling this a win for America.
Their rights are being eroded, and they’re still brown nosing the guy.
Trump stole money from cancer kids. I don’t understand how anyone can miss the slime dripping of him. Yeah, I’m partisan about this.
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Chief Justice Roberts wrote that in some circumstances, presidents must know that they have immunity from criminal prosecution; otherwise, their ability to do their jobs could be affected.
Roberts continues that future judges also cannot find that a president’s action is unofficial “merely because it allegedly violates a generally applicable law.”
In taking its time to craft this ruling, justices have essentially handed Trump another victory for his delay tactics.
Conservative justices, including the Trump-appointed Neil Gorsuch, stressed that the case before them was of far more importance than just the facts of what the former president is accused of doing after the 2020 election.
“The most powerful person in the world with the greatest amount of authority could go into office knowing there would be no potential penalty for committing crimes,” Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson said during oral arguments.
Democratic lawmakers had pressed Alito to step aside after The New York Times reported that a flag had been flown upside down at Alito’s Virginia home following the 2020 election, an established sign of distress that at the time was viewed as a symbol of solidarity for Trump’s false claims the election was stolen.
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