President can murder rivals without prosecution unless convicted by Senate first: Trump lawyer
lawandcrime.com
Appearing in appeals court against special counsel Jack Smith on Tuesday, Donald Trump argued he was 'presidentially' immune from criminal charges alleging he conspired to subvert the 2020 election.

The stark question was posed to Trump’s attorney John Sauer by Judge Florence Pan: Was a president immune from prosecution for any unlawful act, at all? Could a president order his political rivals to be assassinated by Seal Team 6 as an official act? Could he sell pardons at his pleasure if he saw fit and then face no consequences for his actions?

“He would have to be impeached and convicted first,” Sauer replied,

  • gregorum@lemm.eeEnglish
    33·
    11 months ago

    Taken to it’s logical conclusion, this idea would basically posit that all the president must do to become a dictator is take out the whole Senate at once, or just have absolute loyalists in enough of the seats, or a combination of the two

    Didn’t they sorta try that 3 years ago? Shouldn’t that be a huge red flag for this argment?

    • Jiggle_Physics@lemmy.world
      29·
      11 months ago

      They have a much more rigorous plan for this now. The following is a link to the published 970 page manual on how the GOP intends to take permanent control of the US.

      https://thf_media.s3.amazonaws.com/project2025/2025_MandateForLeadership_FULL.pdf

    • grue@lemmy.worldEnglish
      6·
      11 months ago

      Didn’t they sorta try that 3 years ago?

      No, they tried to take out the House of Representatives. It’s clearly a totally different thing. \s