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Christian Mott@cjmott.bsky.social |
If I'm understanding correctly, Trump would be immune from prosecution if, with the intent to interfere with people's constitutional rights, he promised to audit everyone who donated to Biden and then, on assuming office, ordered the IRS to do so and promised pardons to everyone who participated.
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Christian Mott
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Directing an audit would ordinarily be illegal under 26 USC 7217, which explicitly names the President, so one might think that it is therefore not within the President's core powers. But the criminal laws cannot define those powers or the DOJ portion of this case would have come out the other way.
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