Chuck Darwin on Nostr: Apparently, a president can ask for an investigation into anyone or anything that’s ...
Apparently, a president can ask for an investigation into anyone or anything that’s in their way and have immunity from criminal prosecution.
Trump can’t be prosecuted for trying to enlist DOJ in his scheme to steal an election.
This falls within the core functions of the presidency bucket of official action [because] a president’s conversations with Justice Department officials fall within the president’s official duties and are hands-off…
The Court says that because a discussion of their duties between the president and vice president is “official conduct”
Trump’s efforts to pressure Pence “to block certification of the election… involv[ed] official conduct,”
so he is “at least presumptively immune from prosecution for such conduct.”
https://substack.com/home/post/p-146140342
Trump can’t be prosecuted for trying to enlist DOJ in his scheme to steal an election.
This falls within the core functions of the presidency bucket of official action [because] a president’s conversations with Justice Department officials fall within the president’s official duties and are hands-off…
The Court says that because a discussion of their duties between the president and vice president is “official conduct”
Trump’s efforts to pressure Pence “to block certification of the election… involv[ed] official conduct,”
so he is “at least presumptively immune from prosecution for such conduct.”
https://substack.com/home/post/p-146140342