Comment on YSK the full scope of the recent US presidential immunity decision
Lumisal@lemmy.world 4 months ago
The bigger picture is always missing in these posts.
And that is that everything that’s happening has already happened in Russia. It’s how Putin got power - through the courts.
All a Republican president has to do now is make an official act that they are president for life, the supreme court agrees, and that’s that.
The second is that while only the president has immunity (meaning anyone killing people under their official order would still be illegal), the president can also pardon people. So it’s a loophole - anyone can kill under their official order, and then the president can just pardon them.
Varyk@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
Two salient points:
This has not already happened in Russia.
In Russia, Vladimir Putin does not legally have absolute immunity.
In the US, a president could not pardon themselves for state crimes, and the president murdering someone would have been a prosecutable state crime until this decision.
Not so anymore.