Citing Supreme Court immunity ruling, Trump's lawyers seek to freeze the classified documents case
Citing Supreme Court immunity ruling, Trump's lawyers seek to freeze the classified documents case
Donald Trump has asked a federal judge to freeze the classified documents case against him in light of a Supreme Court ruling this week that said former presidents have broad immunity from prosecution.
So taking boxes of classified documents, after your term as president is over, is official, presidential business?
I know his lawyers throw shit at the walls, but come on!
It is Cannon after all; she'll probably buy it.
Yup. I guarantee the calculation in Cannon's chambers is, "Is this the Supreme Court telling us to go for it?," not "Is this an official act?".
*collude to allow it
FTFY
He obstructed justice when he didn’t return them as well.
Corruption is on the republican's side
I really don’t think that the Supreme Court is concerned with the details. It’s official if they say it is.
Kings have divine right and cannot break the law.
Judge Dredd also cannot break the law.
good bye, office of the presidency or whatever official name it had
welcome to the title of king of america
Make America Grovel Again
Surely there's some new largely unsettled land we can sail to to escape persecution and form a functional democracy?
I guess that Antarctica will be pretty green soon with people like Trump running things so maybe that's an option.
Full circle. Makes you wonder what the Declaration of Independence was for. And to Constitution... And like, a huge chunk of American history up til now. They should just go back under Charles. Say what you want about the royals, they do their job as well as a royal is meant to. Monarchies over large populations have their issues, but if this is where they want to head back to...
I'm taking the juneflower to the new exoplanet colony first chance I get
Correct me if I'm wrong, but that might cover taking the documents, but retaining them... he was no longer president and therefore incapable of taking 'official' acts?
Look, Judge Cannon says you raise some good points too. We'll need some time for written briefs from each side. Due three months from now. Then we'll need time for written responses, at least another month. We'll schedule a few days of hearings to really hash through those details. And then she promises to think about it real hard, imply she'll dismiss the case immediately once the trial begins, but make no actual official ruling yet, that would be premature. Then we have this backlog of other issues to work through of course. What, you suggest we address these issues in parellel? How dare you speak to a judge in this way, you are being inappropriate!! These issues that have been ruled on many times in the past by other courts as a routine matter are totally novel and demand years of study before a trial can begin!
Etc etc etc
If he doesn't win the election and just fire half the justice department next January, she may just push the trial date so far Trump dies of natural causes before it even happens.
That motherfucker wasn't even president at the time.
“Citing a denial of the very idea of law, Trump’s lawyers seek to state that Trump didn’t break the law”
The lies Trump tells is a distraction
Donald Trump has asked a federal judge to freeze the classified documents case against him in light of a Supreme Court ruling this week that said former presidents have broad immunity from prosecution.
I love that it says former presidents, not presidents in general. I also remember the ruling saying that it was immunity for things that fall within the Presidents "official duties", of which Roberts gave Trump's team two examples (pardons and AG/DOJ). I wouldn't call that "broad immunity". This very well could be something that Roberts and his co-conspirators had in mind for the "presumptive immunity" type of act though, and the fun part is they didn't define it so they get to rule if it does/doesn't, super!
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