On its face, the OLC memo only precludes indictment and prosecution of a sitting president.
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Do not take Ivermectin, drink bleach or shove a uv light up your bum.
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trump will appeal but I think it very likely SCOTUS will say the Appeals Court got it right and let it stand as the last word on the subject.
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It’s like a locally produced commercial featuring a guy who calls himself
MATTRESS KING embezzelling from the city council claiming immunity through his kingship.
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“Trump again says it’s a persecution - which is central to his election strategy”
If this were a persecution, he would have been drawn and quartered long ago.
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Isn’t the presidential pardon a de facto immunity from prosecution? I mean, couldn’t a president commit literally any crime he wants—up to and including assasination of political rivals—and then just say that he is granting himself (and everyone else involved) a pardon and that’s that?
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Most people agree you’re crook.
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You forgot hung. I would prefer hanged. Every witness talking noted that he’s not hung.
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Mystery solved
Lloyd Austin was diagnosed with prostate cancer
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin diagnosed with prostate cancer (nbcnews.com)
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I think that to accept a pardon you have to admit to committing the crime. It gives immunity from the consequences, not from an admission of guilt.
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I’m not sure how that’s any different from the immunity that Trump claims he is entitled to.
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and sent to the four corners of the earth.
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No election needed next year if Biden orders the assassination of Trump, and gets acquitted because of Sauer’s brilliant legal reasoning — “just defending the Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic, as I swore an oath to do”
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If the SC sides with Trump on this issue, then presumably a Democratic president would enjoy the same immunity from prosecution as early as January 2029 since Trump is term-limited. Why aren’t Republicans concerned about this?
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According to Trump’s lawyers’ reasoning Ford’s pardon of Nixon was superfluous. The House never impeached Nixon, much less the Senate convicted him. So Nixon had no criminal liability.
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Yeah, I hear it on line in the deli, the donut store, while riding the bus: “He’s immune. Of course, he’s immune. He could smother my mother in law and they couldn’t do anything about it.”
Well, except from the queen. From her, it’s just, “We are not amused.”
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If Trump manages to get this appeals court, or the Supreme Court, to rule that presidents are immune from prosecution for anything even tangentially related to the “outer perimeter” of the performance of their official duties, one would think, given how evil Joe Biden is, sitting at the apex of the Biden Crime Family and all, that Donald Trump is at extreme and certain risk of assassination, “for the children” as they say.
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Joe, the Big Guy, is very old school.
It’d be, “Go with the cement galoshes,” and, one day, we’d just never hear from tfg again.
You know, like bird song at an early summer sunrise.
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I was thinking more along the lines of an unfortunate brush with a particularly spiky umbrella of North Korean provenance.
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The fact that they aren’t even the slightest bit concerned about this is a huge “tell” that they believe, deep down inside, that Joe Biden is in fact a good and honest person.
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