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Tom Scocca@tomscocca.bsky.social |
Also a little more subtly “SEAL Team Six” is the framework here because it was the original shockingly funny hypothetical but none of this military law stuff applies if he just sends the Marshals to kill someone—which, again, he already bragged he did
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Silly B Man
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I think they cut Claire Finkelstein off, and make her look gullible unfairly. [disclosure: i know CF, and she is under no illusions about where we are rn] Threat of court martial “Both ways” (for disobeying or for obeying) plus the pardon power from a corrupt criminal president ▶️ obeying v likely
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Buchman
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Also Trumps lawyer agreed he'd be immune in that situation!
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Buchman
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And if you don't think the president could find someone willing to do something insane like nuke San Francisco, I have bad news about the airforce.
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Confirmed Professional Agitator
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Also thank goodness Trump has never pardoned and restored rank to court martialed war criminals, I guess our worries were for nothing
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Cloud's Strife
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Men with swords, historically famous for recognizing the niceties of the legal systems and institutional traditions.
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Ducky Krup
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So that person goes to trial and Trump pardons them.
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@timmis.bsky.social
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The counterargument here is hilarious. Roberts specifically listed pardon power as something subject to absolute immunity, the assassins would obviously be pardoned at no risk in this scenario.
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Mark Shatraw
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And, with maybe a few *very* brave exceptions, is any prosecutor in the country going to want to go after the president's hitmen?
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Just here to chill
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It's an extreme hypo, but if Trump identifies a particularly MAGA junior officer and makes that guy his body-man; what stops him from keeping that guy and a signed blank-dated pardon for murder in the Oval (no state law there!), and ordering Lt. Yes-man to shoot anyone who refuses Trump's orders?
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Marley Jay, a Werewolf of Wall Street
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In this hypothetical, are they just pretending pardon power doesn't exist?
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