U.S. presidents cannot be prosecuted for selling pardons or assassinating political rivals through SEAL Team Six, personal Trump lawyer John Sauer argued Tuesday.

U.S. presidents cannot be prosecuted for selling pardons or assassinating political rivals through SEAL Team Six, personal Trump lawyer John Sauer argued Tuesday.

  • chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    29·
    1 year ago

    “Could a president order SEAL Team Six to assassinate a political rival? That’s an official act–an order to Seal Team Six,” U.S. Circuit Judge Florence Pan asked Sauer.

    “He would have to be, and would speedily be, you know, impeached and convicted before the criminal prosecution,” Sauer replied, setting a pre-condition for such prosecution in Pan’s hypothetical.

    I wonder if that’s true. Would a congress controlled by the Republican party of today really follow through with impeachment for that? I’m sure such a president would have all kinds of excuses as to why they had to do it and how their rival was a threat to national security etc etc that their followers would take at face value.

    • troglodytis@lemmy.worldEnglish
      15·
      1 year ago

      Well, just kill the representatives and senators that won’t fall in line. According to Trump, it’s legal

    • CileTheSane@lemmy.caEnglish
      11·
      1 year ago

      “He would have to be, and would speedily be, you know, impeached and convicted before the criminal prosecution,” Sauer replied, setting a pre-condition for such prosecution in Pan’s hypothetical.

      Meanwhile, Republicans didn’t impeach him because “the courts should decide.”

      They’re trying to create Schrodinger’s Dictator.