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[–] [email protected] 54 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, you can't even pretend that Trump isn't above the law when the Supreme Court has literally ruled that he is at their discretion.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Technically the ruling was for ~~crimes~~ official acts he committed while in office.

He's no longer president and holds no privilege, except being the Republican nominatee for President. Which apparently is a protected class.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Correct. Regardless, it has been codified that he IS above the law in some cases. Slippery slope is not a fallacy in this instance.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

even as a president, this wouldn't be protected under the immunity act, only presidential actions. Speaking to the public, as far as i am concerned is not considered to be a core "presidential action" in the government.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

SCOTUS has decreed that SCOTUS alone can determine what is an official act.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

while this is true, they still have a basis to operate under. There are certain things that aren't official acts. Posting on social media wouldn't be one. There are things that are, and those have absolute immunity (bad) there are also things that have presumptive immunity (which means you have to rule on whether or not these are admissible evidence) and this has had a direct effect on the jan 6th hearing, removing like 9 pages of communication between government officials, which is about all they could remove from the hundreds of pages that were there already.