• gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works
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    8 months ago

    Honestly, if the Tribunal of Six decides that Trump has total, unequivocal, blanket immunity at any point before Jan 6, 2025, Biden should just sic Seal Team Six on him. It would be 100% legal.

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      8 months ago

      They won’t, because that’s insane. What they’ve done is make sure to the Supreme Court case will keep other federal trials on hold, and thus Trump won’t have a guilty verdict before election day. Trump can keep running and perhaps win, and at the same time the obvious and sane answer to the case will still come down.

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      8 months ago

      Immunity doesn’t make something legal, it just protects you from prosecution unless it’s revoked

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        8 months ago

        The “immunity” that Trump wants the USSC to give him is effectively intrinsic, monarch-caliber “I am the law” immunity - effectively, he is working to get the court to declare that he is somehow just above the law in a categorical sense. We are not talking about immunity in the context of its understood and agreed upon legal definition in the United States.

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          8 months ago

          Oh lol, I mean I think his legal team is just throwing everything at the wall and seeing what sticks