• SkyezOpen@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    While not explaining what an “official act” is. Every trial involving Trump is severely hamstrung right now because they’ll have to litigate whether or not every single crime was an “official act.”

    Biden could just declare Trump or whoever an enemy of the state then “officially” drone strike them and he’d probably die of old age before any courts untangled that mess.

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      5 months ago

      I wonder if Watergate would have been an official act according to this new doctrine.

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        5 months ago

        If swiping documents and selling them to foreign governments is an official act, and the Court seems to believe it should be assumed that, then i don’t see why not.

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        The one act outside of the explicit constitutional powers that they gave absolute immunity to was him communicating with his Justice Department. So it 100% would be.