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"The reason why there have not been prior criminal prosecutions is that there were not crimes," he said.

Would have liked to see a follow up question: "So directing a drone to kill a US Citizen is not considered a crime?
1 posted on 04/25/2024 10:06:27 AM PDT by where's_the_Outrage?
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Lying under oath about a sexual tryst with an intern is not a crime?


2 posted on 04/25/2024 10:12:12 AM PDT by Fido969 (Ia)
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3 posted on 04/25/2024 10:13:07 AM PDT by bitt (<img src=' 'width=30%>)
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Trump immunity case updates: Justice says immunity may ‘embolden’ criminal presidents

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Do Presidents lack the boldness to do criminal things now? Biden has flaunted his student loan forgiveness program in defiance of the SCOTUS. Why should Trump be the only one to suffer prosecution?


4 posted on 04/25/2024 10:15:04 AM PDT by Bishop_Malachi (Liberal Socialism - A philosophy which advocates spreading a low standard of living equally.)
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Nice answer-yea classified docs being stored all over God’s green earth wasn’t criminal until now.

Our system is obv extremely dependent on prosecutorial discretion-anything short of SCOTUS smacking the daylights out of the obvious politically motivated persecution is going to be a huge disappointment.


6 posted on 04/25/2024 10:16:56 AM PDT by Freest Republican (This space for rent)
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Truth be told...

Just about every president has violated the law, one way or another. Strict enforcement of every law/regulation/rule, would handicap a president. And some who did become president, likely violated the law before being elected president.

A perfect president is not possible with humans.


8 posted on 04/25/2024 10:17:16 AM PDT by adorno (CCH)
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Wake-up call for those expecting the Courts to protect Trump. If they were going to help they would have long ago.


9 posted on 04/25/2024 10:17:30 AM PDT by itsahoot (Many Republicans are secretly Democrats, no Democrats are secretly Republicans. Dan Bongino.)
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ABC= Always Bull Crap.


10 posted on 04/25/2024 10:22:37 AM PDT by Eagles6 (Welcome to the Matrix . Orwell's "1984" was a warning, not an instruction manual.)
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Trump isn’t going to win this one.


11 posted on 04/25/2024 10:29:51 AM PDT by Husker24 (Pp)
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I read the several links to this story but did NOT see any lines that mention the story headline or the justice who said “embolden” future criminal presidents.”

Has anyone here found which of the nine said it? “ Justice says immunity may ‘embolden’ criminal presidents”


12 posted on 04/25/2024 10:32:17 AM PDT by GreyFriar (Spearhead - 3rd Armored Division 75-78 & 83-87)
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I’m torn about which way this should go.

If it’s about the ability to charge Presidents with genuine crimes done while in office - like bribery, ordering assassinations, leaving the border wide open as an accessory to both election fraud and destabilization of the country on behalf of the countries who bribe you, etc... there should not be immunity.

But for good-faith governance, where life-and-death decisions have to be made, there are differing opinions on what is the best route, and there is a compelling Presidential duty involved, that’s a different story.

I think the issue has to be considered along with what accountability there is for PROSECUTORS who engage in criminal activity. The country and Constitution need to be protected from them as well. Bringing false charges of crimes for political gain or to cover up the crimes of the Deep State need to be prosecutable also. But who is there to prosecute the prosecutors?

As President, Trump had the duty to insure that the election was secure. Providing a means for corrected/accurate certifications to be effective is not criminal. What crime is there in seeking to fully verify the integrity of the election? The govt dude talked about there being a proper way to question election results, but the courts shut down almost every judicial avenue, the J6 plot by Pelosi and the Deep State shut down the Constitutional remedy of requiring investigations before certifying suspected-fraudulent electoral votes, and as Clarence Thomas stated in one of the cases that came before SCOTUS there is just not time to do real legal-quality investigations within the existing timeframe. All that has to be addressed too.

Is forcing all government agencies to do Get-Out-the-Vote work a President’s duty? Is it a crime? Is pressuring social media companies to silence your political oppenent a crime? Is White House collusion to conduct warfare on your political opponent a crime?

Seeing what is happening in Bragg’s case against Trump, where there isn’t even a crime actually stated that justifies felony charges, and knowing how corrupt NYC, DC, etc are as jury pools... I think SCOTUS would have to be idiots to not address both issues: potentially criminal Presidents, and potentially criminal prosecutors, judges, and juries.


14 posted on 04/25/2024 10:33:32 AM PDT by butterdezillion
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“Immunity may embolden criminal presidents”
Sounds like Bill the hit man Clinton !


15 posted on 04/25/2024 10:34:25 AM PDT by cquiggy
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“”The reason why there have not been prior criminal prosecutions is that there were not crimes,” he said.:

And they let the fool get away with that?

I have heard Mark Levin give dates and times when previous presidential elections were challenged in the same way and no one was charged with a crime.

There are legal ways already enshrined in law that prescribe how elections are challenged. Challenging an election has never been a crime in this country until Trump did it. Democrats have been doing it for decades.


17 posted on 04/25/2024 10:38:13 AM PDT by odawg
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The U.S. Supreme Court is hearing arguments Thursday on whether former President Donald Trump can be criminally prosecuted over his efforts to overturn his 2020 election loss.

And of course ABC is lying. It should read "To STOP the certification of a corrupt election."

20 posted on 04/25/2024 10:46:51 AM PDT by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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The arguments I heard were very weak and in dire need of rebuttal and the Justices asking the question were not impressive in their counter to the state’s case.


22 posted on 04/25/2024 10:54:23 AM PDT by G Larry (Biden Fundraising Failure: More advertising for rotting fish is unlikely to improve sales....)
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That muslim scum needed killing.


28 posted on 04/25/2024 11:01:39 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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This case is complex and rife with mines, I cannot believe the court is going to get into the weeds on this case.


35 posted on 04/25/2024 11:20:42 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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How about applying it to Biden in current administration???


38 posted on 04/25/2024 11:50:52 AM PDT by ridesthemiles (not giving up on TRUMP---EVER)
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...embolden criminal presidents AND what about embolding zealous political prosecutors?


39 posted on 04/25/2024 11:53:19 AM PDT by Pirate Ragnar
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These 3 female judges are stupid.


40 posted on 04/25/2024 11:55:08 AM PDT by Fledermaus (Is it me, or all of a sudden have the buried trolls come out on FR like cicadas? It's all noise.)
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What, then, did Gerald Ford pardon Nixon for?


43 posted on 04/25/2024 12:00:43 PM PDT by Eleutheria5 (Every Goliath has his David. Child in need of a CGM system. https://gofund.me/6452dbf1. )
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