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 DrZarkov 10 months, 1 week ago
    Members of the House and Senate have immunity from prosecution for official acts, so it's only logical the President should have the same immunity. This is pretty much going to kill the lawfare attempts, as in each case Trump's lawyers are going to argue that the court must revisit charges to determine if they address Presidential official acts.
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  • Posted by term2 10 months, 1 week ago
    In a way, government service is based on force, not morality. That means as a government employee, you are required to use force in one way or another pretty much all the time. If government employees didn't have immunity, NO one would want to be a government employee and be subject to criminal prosecution anytime someone said they were hurt in some way.

    I don't want to be a police officer today and be subject to life imprisonment or death because I shot some black man who was getting ready to do me in. In the seconds you have to determine how much danger you are in, your future life could be ruined. No thanks. Working at burger king seems a lot more appealing.
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  • Posted by GaryL 10 months, 1 week ago
    Jack STRAP Smith is famous for never giving up and always getting it wrong! He will keep on trying and judge shopping until he gets it his way. My bet now is the judge in the NY BS case will go ahead and imprison Trump on July 10. What a complete banana republic we are under these assholes.
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  • Posted by $ allosaur 10 months, 1 week ago
    Crybaby Biden should be celebrating. He just gained Supreme Court decreed immunity for his treason of trashing what is spelled out in the Constitution by throwing our two borders wide open to an invasion of millions of illegal aliens. Even flying some in! He along with a compliant Democrat Party are accomplices to known and (I'm quite sure) countless unknown rapes, murders and a whole laundry list of other crimes callously dismissed as acceptable collateral damage for inventing new voters to enhance their goal of a tyrannical one party rule.
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  • Posted by CaptainKirk 10 months, 1 week ago
    I have to say that Megyn Kelly has come a long way on her redemption path. She recently explained how hard Bannon had hit her personally during the dust-up with Trump... But with Dershowitz she admitted "We have to go Bannon on them"...

    And then she had Bannon on her show.
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  • Posted by $ Olduglycarl 10 months, 1 week ago
    Beat me to it, you did,
    Now, how far do you thing the left will go to classify everything a republican president does as an UNOFFICIAL ACT?
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  • Posted by mhubb 10 months, 1 week ago
    seems biden the usurper is giving a speech tonight about this

    FJB!!
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  • Posted by $ 25n56il4 10 months, 1 week ago
    Praise the Lord! Does this mean this mess of trials and charges are going to disappear??
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  • Posted by mhubb 10 months, 1 week ago
    question
    is violating and ignoring Law an official act?

    asking for the biden crime family....
    (border laws ignored / violated)
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