Donald Trump urged a federal appeals court to throw out the federal election subversion criminal case in Washington, DC, again arguing in a filing late Saturday that he is protected under presidential immunity.
Trump wants the DC Circuit Court of Appeals to overturn a lower-court ruling rejecting his claims of immunity in special counsel Jack Smith’s election subversion case. The appeals panel is weighing Trump’s request, which the Supreme Court on Friday refused to take up on an expedited basis, as Smith requested.
The filing reiterates what the former president’s lawyers have repeatedly asserted – that Trump was working in his official capacity as president to “ensure election integrity” when he allegedly undermined the 2020 election results and therefore has immunity, and that his indictment is unconstitutional because presidents cannot be criminally prosecuted for “official acts” unless they are impeached and convicted by the Senate.
Every time he trots out this lame attempt to avoid accountability, this is what I think of (from Lethal Weapon 2).
If the only person who could be convicted of it should be immune from it, then it shouldn’t be a crime. That argument is, in its face, absurd, since the people who crafted the law certainly imagined someone should be subject to it.
Remember what this qlown said about those that plead the Fifth?
This is definitely the legal strategy I would take if I was completely innocent of what I was being accused of.
If this happens, Biden should just go: “Ok, I’m president for life now until someone overturns this.”
Republicans will break their necks getting that decision they want now undone.
He could send hit squads for everyone implicated in j6, end his reelection campaign and retire. If the SC rules for absolute immunity.
Uh no?
I mean, I think uncle Joe is a pretty decent guy as far as US presidents go, but I value the whole democracy thing too.
Agreed. I wouldn’t expect a Democrat to do it. But he could just float the idea in public and that should scare Republicans enough to push it through the SCOTUS that the president isn’t immune to prosecution
