Posted on 04/09/2024 8:42:20 AM PDT by bitt
Nineteen retired generals, admirals, and former top civilian defense officials have filed a brief with the U.S. Supreme Court, opposing former President Donald Trump’s plea for immunity from prosecution, claiming that granting such a request would pose a significant threat to national security.
The Supreme Court is set to deliberate on Trump’s presidential immunity argument on April 25, as reported by The Gateway Pundit.
The Supreme Court will deliberate on whether a president can be shielded from legal consequences for actions taken while in office. The decision, which may not arrive until late June, according to analysts, has significant repercussions for the timeline of Special Counsel Jack Smith’s case against Trump, potentially delaying the trial’s start until after the 2024 election.
President Trump’s legal team requested the Supreme Court to put a hold on the immunity decision related to Jack Smith’s January 6 case in Washington, D.C. This came after a federal appeals court, influenced by appointees of Joe Biden, had denied Trump immunity.
The three-judge panel of the DC Circuit Court of Appeals, consisting of Judges Florence Pan, Michelle Childs (both Biden appointees), and Karen Henderson (a George W. Bush appointee), emphasized the importance of allowing the prosecution to move forward, citing the public’s interest and the structure of the government.
Trump’s lawyers have fervently argued that a former president is immune from federal prosecution for alleged offenses committed while holding office.
“In 234 years of American history, no president ever faced criminal prosecution for his official acts. Until 19 days ago, no court had ever addressed whether immunity from such prosecution exists,” Trump’s lawyers wrote, according to CBS News. “To this day, no appellate court has addressed it. The question stands among the most complex, intricate, and momentous issues that this Court will be called on to decide.”
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Fluffed Obama Brass & Swamp Loser List....bump for later...
This is purely a political and civilian trial - at no time was the military involved (and they should’ve been) so their opinion means NUTS.
These people are a disgrace to the uniform.
The U.S. Military cloned the wacky Russki “Flounder” Vindman brothers. Made 19 of ‘em. Nineteen is whitey’s secret number up in the Deep Swamp of the District of Corruption.
Sorry FRriends, but the the military is now a deep-state zombie as well. They have been bitten, and have the disease.
Retired Generals and Admirals who never won a war adorned with 300 times the medals, ribbons, and camouflage than that worn by American military leaders in WWII, who actually won a war. See Eisenhower, Halsey, Nimitz, Patton, King, et al.
Should the theory of absolute immunity prevail, the group argues, it will “risk jeopardizing America’s standing as a guardian of democracy in the world and further feeding the spread of authoritarianism, thereby threatening the national security of the United States and democracies around the world.”
Oh, my. Better vote for Bite Me.
In for a penny, in for a pound!
They’re in too deep. They gotta keep goin’!
Hope they end up swinging!
Keep pretending we aren’t under an authoritarian Junta. The military should have absolutely no voice is such matters… none. They are traitors.
George Marshall and other generals of that era did not even think they should vote. They made a pointed demonstration of being non political.
19 pieces of sh*t, who upon president Trump taking office once again, need to be called back to active duty, busted down to private, and sent to prison for traitorous activity.
bkmk
same ones that signed the last big lie???
So19 Retired Generals and Admirals AGREE they all belong in Club Gitmo when Trump is re-elected.
I give this as much credence as the 50 national security experts that signed a letter.
They need to be charged for every penny of them.
Sounds like anyone can be a General.
Marko
how many are LBGQT?
19? Is that all they could come up with? Surely there’s plenty more of these losers out there willing to sell their soul to the devil. Most of them did that during their military careers. Why so shy now?
Dismissed, no standing. Boy that was easy, no wonder the lefty judges love to use that so much.
I like that, I was going to suggest deportation and exile but that is much better
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