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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsIf the president needs immunity, why not immunity for judges? Or congresspeople?
Or cabinet members?
What is unique about the office of the president?
Which functions listed in the constitution might require lawbreaking?
Does alito fear prosecution? Maybe he'll help overthrow our government to avoid prosecution.
So disturbing that these questions are being raised. A reasonable court would laugh in the plaintiff lawyer's face. Yeah, right, the framers, who feared a tyrant more than anything else, wanted presidents to be able to break laws.
marybourg
(12,639 posts)their judicial acts, you know tRump would have already sued all his judges. You can google congressional immunity. I dont want to make a mistake about the details here.
unblock
(52,348 posts)Granted not all of them could be call "official acts" but certainly nothing Donnie is accused of is either, no matter how much the right wing says anything a (Republican) president does is a legal, official act.
marybourg
(12,639 posts)about judges and congress members , who both have limited immunity for official acts.
unblock
(52,348 posts)Or at least a very broad definition of "official acts" when it comes to the presidency.
Congresspeople and judges have gone to prison for things like failure to disclose contributions and gifts, bribery, etc.
Presidents should not have immunity for such crimes, never mind crimes that are obviously not official acts (e.g., Dennis Hastert).
Donnie has not been indicted for signing legislation or issuing any executive order. Yet they're taking about immunity -- for things reasonable people would not consider "official acts".
some of these people on Supreme Court to go. Some on SC no longer want to follow the constitution. They think those who wrote the constitution and approved it wanted presidents to be allowed to break all laws and ignore the constitution. I DONT think so!
raging moderate
(4,311 posts)The President is NOT supposed to RULE the United States. He is supposed to PRESIDE over the functioning of the executive branch of the United States government. He does not have a divine right of kings (which even the King of England does not have, by the way). He is NOT a RULER.