US Supreme Court in Trump ruling declares ex-presidents have immunity for official acts
(www.yahoo.com)
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Where does that leave us for previous President prosecution?
/u/catsfive you had opinions on this.
Is treason an exception? Who gets to decide that the current President is committing treason?
Can it even be the military if the President is CIC of the military?
Constitution specifies that treason must be tried under Article III, presumably Federal District Court, supervised by SCOTUS. Any state AG with jurisdiction and standing may be able to indict/charge. Seems unlikely DOJ would do it.
Thank you - this is a great dig
Note that precedent already set for “Impeachment of a former President” per Pelosi & Company impeachment of Trump over January 6 “Incitement”.
09FEB2021; “Article Of Impeachment Cites Trump's 'Incitement' Of Capitol Insurrection”: https://www.npr.org/sections/trump-impeachment-effort-live-updates/2021/01/11/955631105/impeachment-resolution-cites-trumps-incitement-of-capitol-insurrection
SCOTUS ruling indicates that Biden, Obama, Bush, and Clinton may be impeached and found guilty via Senate trial for official acts, and THEN prosecuted criminally (treason charges?). Anything proven to be “unofficial act” is fair game at anytime, and they likely are caught here as many things were done “off the books” and therefore UNOFFICIAL (such as selling weapons and secrets to our enemies). TREASON and UNOFFICIAL, both, imo, but lower court will define “unofficial” which might be very spicy.