Trump Lawyer Says Having Political Rival Killed Could Constitute 'Official' Presidential Act

If I'm Biden, as soon as this is okayed, Trump is dead. Right? I mean, fuck.

Biden should just send Seal Team 6 to whatever courthouse Trump's hush money trial is at and tell them to sit on the steps. If anyone asks why they're there, just saying "Waiting for the Supreme Court ruling". Maybe park another team on the Supreme Court steps with a sign that says "Waiting for Clarence Thomas."

Biden would not be committing an illegal act. He'd be ordering the teams to sit on the steps and wait. Further orders would only come after the Supreme Court ruling, so Biden would be covered by the very same Presidential immunity that Trump just fought for.

Sotomayor should have asked about assassinating “corrupt” Supreme Court justices, in case some of her colleagues need help connecting the dots.

Watching from an outside of the U.S. perspective, it leaves me speechless seeing how staggering the transition was from 'bastion of democracy and the free world' to 'increasingly malfunctioning society with russian-like values'

If this is validated by the SC then hopefully Joe makes immediate use of it.

Right now, it's looking like the Supreme Court is going to say "that's not allowed" but do it in a way that prevents Trump from being tried before the election. This lets them say "we're good and ethical" while protecting Trump from the consequences of his criminality:

The Supreme Court appeared poised to reject Donald Trump’s sweeping claim that he is immune from prosecution on charges of trying to subvert the 2020 election, but in a way that is likely to significantly delay his stalled election-interference trial in D.C.

I don't get it, are they really arguing that Biden can just have Trump killed? And it would be perfectly legal!

“The most powerful person in the world could go into office knowing that there would be no potential penalty for committing crimes,” Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson said. “I’m trying to understand what the disincentive is from turning the Oval Office into the seat of criminal activity in this country.”

Hard to make any disincentive when the ones running for office are in the twilight of their lives. If only there were any choice to the matter.

The right question to ask is whether the president can decide to assassinate a supreme court justice. Then it becomes plenty clear to the supreme court fucks how obviously insane the rationale is.

Then kill Trump. Problem solved.

The main Trump lawyer defense has been to say that the military has it's own rules against executing such an order. But if Trump promises them pardons, those rules wouldn't be enforced, and the whole thing would be "legal".

The pardon power is kinda the root of all evil here, because even if the court finds that Trump isn't immune (which they almost certainly will), that just brings up the next question which is can the president pardon himself? I'm amazed that after the Trump years and his corrupt pardons there's been no effort to limit the pardon power.

So this means someone could come in, kill the sitting President, and claim the presidency by right of conquest?

Murica!

What in the fuck is going on down there?

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I don't understand how these absurd arguments aren't laughed out of court.

Who is John Sauer and why does anyone take this unfounded nonsense he's saying seriously?

"Your honor I submit to the court..our own rules instead the current ones, what say you!?"

So Biden could kill Trump?

It's just bizarre to listen to...

Kagan: If a president sells nuclear secrets to a foreign adversary, is that immune?

Sauer: If it's structured as an official act, he would have to be impeached and convicted first.

My gut tells me Trump’s lawyers don’t actually want the president to be immune. They already won by having the Supreme Court take up this absurd case allowing his other trial to be delayed until this issue is resolved. Likely after he’s president.

You know, I'm honestly not sure why everyone's thinking this is part of some plan for the future they have. Fuckhead was already president. Given this guy's track record, it's far more likely that he didn't get to finish covering his ass for something the first time around.

Any likely candidates that disappeared 2016-2020?

Are these people really this fucking stupid? If the sitting president has total immunity and having political rivals killed is an "offical" act, then what's stopping Biden from having Trump executed?

A bold move for the council of the current president's political rival, but alright bet. Pretty sure the lawyer just wants a way to escape the current client while saving face.

You know. If I was an asshole puppeteer who held trump’s strings….

I’d get myself a new puppet, then make this argument, maybe then do a false flag and have the trump-puppet executed in a manner that looks like Biden had it done….

Something to think about.

This is the best summary I could come up with:

In another hypothetical, Justice Elena Kagan asked if the president would be immune from prosecution if he sold nuclear secrets to a foreign adversary.

In February, D.C.’s Federal Court of Appeals summarily rejected the arguments made by Trump’s attorneys — including that the president would be protected from prosecution even if he had his political opponents assassinated.

The three-judge panel unanimously determined that Trump is not shielded from prosecution for potential crimes committed in office related to the subversion of the 2020 election.

Trump has long been ranting about the matter in his public statements and on social media, effectively making the immunity issue a plank of his presidential campaign.

Despite Trump’s public insistence that he deserves widespread immunity, his own legal team seems prepared to have their claims rejected by the highest court in the land.

“We already pulled off the heist,” one source close to Trump said, adding that regardless of what the court decides, they’ve already managed to severely stall the DOJ’s election interference case.

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............. I have so much hate in my heart. Not as much as these people, though.

Feel like theyre trying to setup as a given that "official presidential acts" are immune from prosecution.

Like "alright assassinating a political rival is a step too far but now we're discussing a much more tame action as president."

No go back a step, there is no law granting the president immunity from the law. It doesnt matter what is or isnt an "official act"

The best one is that he argues only the senate/congress can rule he's broken the law, and only while he's president. So in his world he could assassinate someone, leave the presidency and then get away Scott free.

I'm certain that Trump's followers will be very concerned about this absolute seizure of power. They've consistently protested when Democrats over reached.

Orangefucks lawyer is as stupid and evil as he is

Fucking wild they used Ben Franklin as a basis of defense lol.

(Fake newsclip I made in jest of the absurdity of it all)