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Liberal Tears keep flowing: Supreme Court Rules for Presidental Immunity

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07-02-2024, 12:34 PM

(07-02-2024, 12:28 PM)mikesez Wrote:
(07-02-2024, 10:37 AM)The Real Marty Wrote: Great question.  I think that would be prosecutable.  

But you have to protect Presidents from prosecution for official acts because otherwise, every President would be hauled into court continuously.

Right, taking a payment or donation for anything other than his salary would be an unofficial act.
But the pardon would be an official act. 
And under this decision, because it was an official act, they could not even be introduced into evidence if there was a trial over the bribe payment.
So I think we would agree that the payment would not be shielded from prosecution, but how would the prosecutor prove that it was a bribe, if the prosecutor is not allowed to introduce the pardon as a piece of evidence?

What is this, Harvard Law School?  I don't know that the prosecution is not allowed to bring up the pardon as a piece of evidence.  Just because he can't be prosecuted for an official act, that doesn't mean the official act can't be introduced as part of the evidence at the trial.  Unless you know different...
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RE: Liberal Tears keep flowing: Supreme Court Rules for Presidental Immunity - by The Real Marty - 07-02-2024, 12:34 PM



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