Supreme Court: Trump Has 'Absolute Immunity' For Core Constitutional Powers : usa

[–] PowerCrazy@lemmy.ml -3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

This has always been the case. There is a specific way that congress can put a check on POTUS. Liberals being told how the government works and has always worked, and suddenly getting upset. I'm sure they will vote harder then they have ever voted before to fix it this time.

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[–] walden@sub.wetshaving.social -3 points 3 months ago (9 children)

Call me silly, but isn't this sort of good? I think they're trying to say "you're immune if you do stuff that presidents do, like be in charge of war, torture, etc, but if you're a normal criminal, you're still a criminal".

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[+] CableMonster@lemmy.ml -9 points 3 months ago (2 children)

To explain this from my understanding because most of the comments are silly and incorrect. It doesnt give the president complete immunity from crimes, it prevents the president from being prosecuted by other politicians while in office. So a DA of a state cant directly charge and get a conviction of a president. This actually makes sense so that no branch has control over the other branch directly. Instead the president has to get impeached and then thrown out of office before they are procesuted.

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