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Nicholas Grossman@nicholasgrossman.bsky.social |
It sure looks like, according to SCOTUS, a president telling an executive branch official "I order you to break the law" cannot be criminal, since giving orders to people in the executive branch is an official act, and the fact that a president used this official act to order a crime doesn't matter.
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Janet Linde
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Does Harlan Crow have a private island somewhere? If so, I'm guessing Clarence and Sam and their wives are headed there to hide for the summer. They sure won't be able to show their faces in public till they're back safely ensconced in the court building in October.
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Jen Roth
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And AFAICT, the official could be prosecuted for breaking the law but the president who ordered them to couldn't, and the fact that the president told them to break the law couldn't be admitted into evidence in the official's trial
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Nicholas Grossman
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SCOPTUS also appears to have declared a president immune from charges of conspiracy. Proving conspiracy requires showing advance plotting to work together to commit a crime. But SCOTUS says POTUS merely talking about it with another officeholder makes it an official act, and therefore not illegal.
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Christian Säfken
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So President Biden should have a lot to talk now with his officials... 😁
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