WASHINGTON, July 1 (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court found on Monday that Donald Trump cannot be prosecuted for official actions taken as president, but can for private acts, in a landmark ruling recognizing for the first time any form of presidential immunity from prosecution.

  • @elbuchoEnglish
    5•6 months ago

    So one of the things that the majority said was that Trump’s pressuring of the justice department to “investigate” nonexistent voter fraud in several states by threatening to sack the acting attorney general if he didn’t was completely within his sphere of official duties, and thus immune from prosecution:

    The indictment’s allegations that the requested investigations were shams or proposed for an improper purpose do not divest the President of exclusive authority over the investigative and prosecutorial func- tions of the Justice Department and its officials.

    So, basically, the president can attempt to force the justice department to conduct sham investigations pretty much whenever he wants, and he’s completely immune from prosecution for doing so. So I say Biden should just order the justice department to go after literally everybody associated with Trump. Why not? It’s not like the courts could do anything about it now that the supreme court has issued this asinine ruling.