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Why are we even having a discussion about whether former president Donald Trump’s sweeping claims of immunity are justified?
Didn’t we fight the Revolutionary War in part because we didn’t want to be governed by an all-powerful king?
Somehow, we’ve traveled far from our original vision and ended up with a former president who wants to be seen as a supreme monarch and as a law unto himself with unlimited powers.
Incredibly, the Supreme Court (including its staunchly origi…

@karlauerbach@sfba.social
2024-03-02 21:20:32

Worth a read on the recent pro-tfg actions of SCOTUS...
slate.com/news-and-politics/20

@marcel@waldvogel.family
2024-05-01 13:01:57

«Donald #Trump has warned that Joe #Biden and his family could face multiple criminal prosecutions once he leaves office unless the US supreme court awards Trump immunity in his own legal battles with the criminal justice system.
[…] Trump painted a startling picture of his second term, from how…

@nuthatch@infosec.exchange
2024-03-03 15:42:52

People ask when I’ll stop wearing a mask and I tell them, “when a nasal vaccine confers sterilizing immunity, I can stop masking.”

Trump threatens to prosecute Bidens if he’s re-elected unless he gets immunity
Donald Trump has threatened that Joe Biden and his family could face multiple criminal prosecutions once he leaves office
unless the US supreme court awards Trump immunity in his own legal battles with the criminal justice system.
In a sweeping interview with Time magazine, Trump painted a startling picture of his second term, from how he would wield the justice department to hinting he may let …

@khalidabuhakmeh@mastodon.social
2024-03-01 03:30:36

Biden should test Trump's theory of presidential immunity by deploying seal team six on his ass.

@jgkoomey@mastodon.energy
2024-04-26 13:21:44

Supreme Court immunity arguments: The court just showed how and why it will let Donald Trump get away with it. slate.com/news-and-politics/20

@gwaldby@mastodon.social
2024-04-29 13:44:15

How Project 2025 Creates A Christian Dictatorship: It starts with giving Trump immunity to kill anyone.
thedemlabs.org/2024/04/28/proj

Status of #Trump's #criminal cases - As of March 1, 2024
#Jan6
Washington, D.C.
Proposed trial date TBD
🔸On hold
🔹Frozen while Supreme Court considers Trump immunity claim

The Supreme Court’s conservatives often accuse liberals of inventing provisions nowhere to be found in the Constitution. Now, the fingers are pointed in the other direction.
At the attention-grabbing arguments this week over Donald Trump’s claim of sweeping presidential immunity from criminal prosecution, the six-member conservative bloc seemed largely unconcerned by a key flaw in Trump’s theory:
Nothing in the Constitution explicitly mentions the concept of presidential immunit…