Sotomayor: If the president decides that his rival is a corrupt person and he orders the military to assasinate him, is that within his official acts to which he has immunity?

“That could well be an official act,” Trump lawyer John Sauer says

  • acargitz@lemmy.ca
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    7 months ago

    The right question to ask is whether the president can decide to assassinate a supreme court justice. Then it becomes plenty clear to the supreme court fucks how obviously insane the rationale is.

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      7 months ago

      Thing is, they are asking the questions and I rather suspect that they don’t want to put that out there.