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Re:Supreme Court rules ex-presidents have immunity for offic... by friend_and_foe on Monday July 01, 2024 @04:55PM (#40850575)
This is factually incorrect, the president can be prosecuted for anything, he doesn't even have to commit a crime, but there's a special process for that called impeachment. This isn't new stuff and it has been understood to work this way for a couple hundred or so years, until very recently.
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Re:Supreme Court rules ex-presidents have immunity for offic... by gazook89 on Monday July 01, 2024 @04:58PM (#40850602)
Impeachment is a political process to remove someone from office, it doesn’t send you to prison.
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Re:Supreme Court rules ex-presidents have immunity for offic... by science4sail on Monday July 01, 2024 @05:01PM (#40850630)
What if he/she assassinates the impeachers as an "official act"? That might be an example of Gödel's Loophole.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6del%27s_Loophole

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Re:Supreme Court rules ex-presidents have immunity for offic... by Karupan on Monday July 01, 2024 @05:01PM (#40850640)
Not an American but according to everything I’ve read, impeachment is not the equivalent of prosecution [1]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impeachment_in_the_United_St...

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Re:Supreme Court rules ex-presidents have immunity for offic... by tines on Monday July 01, 2024 @05:00PM (#40850623)
What about after he has left office?
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Re:Supreme Court rules ex-presidents have immunity for offic... by tdb7893 on Monday July 01, 2024 @05:14PM (#40850769)
Even the majority opinion doesn't agree with you. Literally the only people I've heard make this argument are Trump's lawyers in this case and in fact during the impeachment proceedings they said the exact opposite. Impeachment is a separate process and the president doesn't need to be impeached to be charged with a crime.
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Re:Supreme Court rules ex-presidents have immunity for offic... by jcranmer on Monday July 01, 2024 @05:00PM (#40850619)
The impeachment clause specifically lays out that impeachment doesn't inhibit criminal prosecution for the same acts. Hell, Trump's impeachment defense was essentially that he should be criminally prosecuted instead of impeachment.
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