Former President Donald Trump’s attorney on Thursday argued that a president could order the assassination of his political rival and stage a military coup without being prosecuted for it.
Jack Sauer, Trump’s lawyer, made the “absolute immunity” argument in a Supreme Court hearing in the Department of Justice election interference case against the former president. Trump’s team has repeatedly claimed that the ex-president can’t be prosecuted for “official acts” he did while in office.
Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor asked Sauer, “If the president decides that his rival is a corrupt person and he orders the military to assassinate him, is that within his official acts to which he has immunity?”
“That could well be an official act,” Sauer responded.
Sotomayor seemed taken aback at that line of reasoning.
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“How about if the president orders the military to stage a coup?” Kagan asked.
“I think it would depend on the circumstances,” Sauer said.
Huh. Well here’s a though: as Biden’s last act as president, he should just go ahead and order the assassination of Trump. It’ll rid us of Trump, and force the matter into the SCOTUS who will then need to establish precedent case law stating specifically that US presidents aren’t allowed to have political rivals assassinated… cuz apparently that’s necessary. >_<
Why not just “retire” certain members of SCOTUS first. These people should be very afraid when the new president gets into office with these rules.
Actually I suppose that would be pretty easy…
To justices that think it’s ok for presidents to order the assassination of rivals, Biden can say:
Ah, playing the fascist game against actual fascists. I wonder who will win that game. Hint: it’s not the non fascists.
Well clearly this “They go low, we go high” shit isn’t fucking working
You can’t fold after you are all in. Gotta play the hand.