Former President Trump’s legal team suggested Tuesday that even a president directing SEAL Team Six to kill a political opponent would be an action barred from prosecution given a former executive’s broad immunity to criminal prosecution.

The hypothetical was presented to Trump attorney John Sauer who answered with a “qualified yes” that a former president would be immune from prosecution on that matter or even on selling pardons.

  • @not_that_guy05@lemmy.world
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    1810 months ago

    The first thing I thought was, welp let’s just kill this pos and see if it’s true that the King(since we are heading that way) is immune from prosecution.

    • Riskable
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      710 months ago

      Why stop there? Get rid of all the opposition and get yourself a whole new set of SCOTUS judges while you’re at it.