Supreme Court Rules 6-3 on Presidential Immunity – IOTW Report

Supreme Court Rules 6-3 on Presidential Immunity

Monday, 1 July 2024, 10:41 MJA Uncategorized 18

“Court holds that a former president has absolute immunity for his core constitutional powers.”

18 Comments on Supreme Court Rules 6-3 on Presidential Immunity

  1. While I know that what we are seeing is rampant abuse of the justice system, NO PRESIDENT SHOULD EVER be immune to prosecution just because they are engaged in an “official act.” War crimes, crimes against humanity, etc are rampant among our presidents, supposedly acting in an official capacity. Immunity, even under these official situations, should NEVER allow crimes. That is truly the definition of a totalitarian dictatorship.

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  2. If I understand correctly, both the judicial & legislative branches have this same immunity … if so, why would or should a President be treated differently?

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  6. Don – so like waging war without a congressional declaration? We already know that 90% of what the executive branch does is unconstitutional…congressional branch too of course.

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  8. “Former presidents are entitled to at least a presumption of immunity for their official acts.
    The Supreme Court ruled there is no immunity for unofficial acts.”

    That doesn’t clear anything up! Back to the lower court where the judge can just declare Trumps actions “unofficial acts” and not immune.

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  9. Just imagine how much of this would be of ANY concern if government had stayed within the boundaries of power defined in the Constitution. Always nipping around the edges because they KNOW they can NEVER get to the heart of the real problems.

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  10. There has always been a presumption of immunity, it was another long standing tradition destroyed by modern leftists.

    It has been understood that our court system could be used to paralyze any president. It worked much like the tradition of stepping down after 2 terms, until leftists blew it up.

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  13. These leftists are free to comment on the Supreme Court decision precisely because they have constitutional immunity against prosecution granted to them by the first amendment.

  14. I’m pretty sure that anyone could argue that their conduct should be considered “Constitutional”, and that someone else could argue that it wasn’t. Just depends on who’s the better bullshitter and who has more leverage over the judge(s) making the ruling. I think this was less about the rule of law, and more about making sure that Clinton, Bush, Obama, and Biden didn’t get their asses handed to them in court for the shit they pulled. And in order for that to happen, they had to extend the same courtesy to Trump.

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  15. I can easily see the democrats using this ruling as a justification for extraordinarily fascist actions. The filthy democrats are not gonna stop until they’ve turned the US into 1990s Yugoslavia on steroids. They’re gonna use the blacks, faggots, & stupid white women as their means to destroy all trust in society. It’s worked “great” so far.

  18. “It’s a damn good thing after he murdered joe biden* live onstage last Thursday in Atlanta with about a billion worldwide witnesses…”

    More like we were all spectators at political suicide…

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