Supreme Court Ruled 6-3 that former presidents enjoy immunity from criminal prosecution for conduct involving official acts during tenure in office

Posted by freedomforall 10 months, 1 week ago to Politics
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"The Supreme Court on Monday ruled in a 6-3 vote that former presidents, including Trump, enjoy immunity from criminal prosecution for conduct involving official acts during tenure in office, but he's not immune from unofficial acts.

The decision - which kicks the ball back to the lower court - 'all but ensures' that a trial won't happen in Trump's classified documents case before the November election.

The justices, voting 6-3 along ideological lines, said a federal appeals court was too categorical in rejecting Trump’s immunity arguments, ruling for the first time that former presidents are shielded from prosecution for some official acts taken while in office. The majority ordered the lower courts to revisit the case to decide the extent of the allegations that are off limits to prosecution.

"Just as former presidents have immunity from civil liability for official acts, they have immunity from criminal prosecution unless they are impeached and removed from office for the crime alleged. This decision is supported by the writings of the framers of the Constitution, the text of the Constitution and Supreme Court precedent," wrote X user Martin Harry.

As constitutional law professor Jonathan Turley notes, now "the issue is whether what constitutes official acts," adding that the ruling will "further delay the lower court proceedings, but Trump will have to argue that his actions fall within these navigational beacons."

"The lower court judge has been highly favorable for Jack Smith in the past. Yet the court is arguing that there is a presumption of immunity for their official acts beyond the absolute immunity on core constitutional powers.""


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  • Posted by $ allosaur 10 months, 1 week ago in reply to this comment.
    A short time ago, me dino thought your impalement idea was too soft for those traitors. :-)
    Wait, piranha just swam into my mind. On second thought, that could be too fast. :-(
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  • Posted by 10 months, 1 week ago in reply to this comment.
    There is less justice in the current JustUS system than
    there was in King George's treatment of the 13 colonies.
    The time to shoot the D.C. traitors passed long ago.
    Shooting is far too soft a punishment for D.C.
    NIFO. It's the only way to be sure.
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  • Posted by $ allosaur 10 months, 1 week ago in reply to this comment.
    Here is a very frustrating fact. Traitors who rigged the 2020 election allowed behaved protesters with R beside theirs names (save for some Democrat infiltrators) to enter and walk around inside the capitol during the January 6 protest. Some of those illegally entrapped protesters are still in jail to make an evil beats good example.
    Any trouble-making plants go to jail? Nope.
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  • Posted by Lucky 10 months, 1 week ago in reply to this comment.
    I think when using the word 'treason', mhubb had in mind not Trump but some other White house resident.
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  • Posted by DrZarkov 10 months, 1 week ago in reply to this comment.
    What treason? Specifics are important when it comes to constitutional violations. The left tried to claim that Trump's request for VP Pence to withhold certification of the 2020 election results pending the outcome of voter fraud claims was a treasonous act, but that doesn't hold water. I have opinions about myriad acts by Biden I think are/were treason, but I'm curious what your list includes.
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  • Posted by $ gharkness 10 months, 1 week ago in reply to this comment.
    Yep, but they aren't mutually exclusive. He was known to be stupid for the past 50 years. Throw some good ole dementia on top of that....
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  • Posted by $ allosaur 10 months, 1 week ago in reply to this comment.
    I'd like~~no, love!~~to see such a case be made.
    But I think China Joe is gonna acompletely skate along with that quid pro quo BuyMe influence peddling racket his crime family ran even before he was elected president.
    He has a D beside his name.
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  • Posted by mhubb 10 months, 1 week ago in reply to this comment.
    i would make the case that violating the Constitution, ignoring Federal Law is NOT protected as it is NOT part of Official Duties

    treason is NOT protected
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  • Posted by $ allosaur 10 months, 1 week ago in reply to this comment.
    I thought about mentioning Afghanistan but then I thought about JFK's screwed-up Bay Of Pigs, LBJ's and Nixon's Vietnam and no weapons of mass destruction found in Iraq.
    Criminal treason with the border ain't the same as a president screwing something up.
    Hmm, new thought~~Candidate Biden did know certain Democrats were behind rigging the election. That was BEFORE he became a usurping sock puppet for a president.
    He even admitted it!~~https://www.bing.com/videos/riverview...
    Admitting both that and withholding a billion bucks to get a Ukrainian prosecutor investigating Hunter fired are indeed signs of either utter stupidity or dementia.
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  • Posted by CaptainKirk 10 months, 1 week ago in reply to this comment.
    The fact that he would NOT BACK DOWN helped him the most. It meant he would stick with us. Never apologize.

    It was no act. And SHE WANTED that question. Because she was a female asking the question, which is what made it sting so much. And Trump handled it like a "Master Persuader" (Scott Adams). He deflected 90% of the energy of that shot.

    It certainly helped define Trump.
    And frankly, I stopped watching Megyn after that attack.

    It took me a long time to circle back to see if she was worth listening to again...
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  • Posted by $ gharkness 10 months, 1 week ago in reply to this comment.
    well it appears sentencing has been put off until September. So even he, the SOB, didn’t do that.
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  • Posted by mhubb 10 months, 1 week ago in reply to this comment.
    soto-idiot was reading the biden dossier

    they always project onto us what they are doing
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  • Posted by mhubb 10 months, 1 week ago in reply to this comment.
    her attack on Trump i believed help Trump get elected

    now was that an act on her part?
    way back then
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  • Posted by mhubb 10 months, 1 week ago
    this past weekend (June 30th), Mark Levin detailed a Federal Law that was passed against the klan.

    it said something to the effect that is is a federal crime to deprive someone of their rights

    so why can't this law be used against a whole host of people?
    the anti-gun nuts
    those pushing DEI
    the federal alphabet agencies

    all those seek to deprive We the People of our Rights given by God, protected by the US Constitution
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  • Posted by $ Radio_Randy 10 months, 1 week ago
    "Sotomayor wrote. "Orders the Navy’s Seal Team 6 to assassinate a political rival? Immune. Organizes a military coup to hold onto power? Immune. Takes a bribe in exchange for a pardon? Immune. Immune, immune, immune."

    So, Biden's ALSO covered by this ruling...should Trump and the People be concerned?
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  • Posted by GaryL 10 months, 1 week ago in reply to this comment.
    If Merchan is dumb enough to imprison Trump I think and hope all hell breaks out and the SCOTUS will get immediately involved before NYC and the rest of this nation blows a fuse. I did just hear that the sentencing has been pushed back from July 10 to September 18. More crap is brewing.
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  • Posted by $ gharkness 10 months, 1 week ago in reply to this comment.
    100% That's what I was saying about Afghanistan, too, but you did a better job of enumerating the stuff.
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  • Posted by $ gharkness 10 months, 1 week ago in reply to this comment.
    Yeah, I thought from the beginning he'd imprison him. The temptation is way too strong. I just hope it backfires like it should.
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  • Posted by tutor-turtle 10 months, 1 week ago in reply to this comment.
    One might conclude with all the many violations of office BuyDumb he has committed while in (stolen) office as pResident, he would be pleased with this ruling.
    But that does not seem to be the case, according to the Malfeasant Media mewling going down at present.
    However immunity does not apply to the crimes he committed while he was VP or his 48 years while in Congress.
    And people say he did nothing noteworthy as a Congress Critter or VP.
    48 years of selling out his country for access is certainly noteworthy, not to mention prosecutable by law.
    The abuse suffered by Trump after the statute of limitations had run out sets the president that the statute of limitations no longer has any teeth.
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  • Posted by $ gharkness 10 months, 1 week ago
    Kind of a shame. I really wanted to see Biden swing for abandoning troops and Americans in Afghanistan.
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  • Posted by fivedollargold 10 months, 1 week ago
    $5Au fully expects the Dems to unleash hell on the Sup. Ct. Six. Their think tanks never rest cooking up schemes to grab and maintain power.
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