He’s not wrong. There is absolute immunity for Trump friendly crimes, also known as presidential pardon.
Yale Posting It's Ls
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Mr_Fish@lemmy.world 1 day ago
YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 1 day ago
Not absolute, state charges are not subject to state crimes.
kogasa@programming.dev 1 day ago
They don’t need to pardon him. Just put some more armed goons between him and whomever wants to serve justice. They’re already using military force against citizens.
Schmoo@slrpnk.net 1 day ago
Oh you misunderstand, he knows the law well. He just knows how to use it as a tool to protect the elites from accountability and as a bludgeon to punish the people for non-compliance, as well as how to make sure that never gets flipped.
laranis@lemmy.zip 2 hours ago
Had someone unironically suggest that if Trump takes a third term that it would open the way for Obama to run again.
Anyone citing the old order of rules, laws, and fairness is delusional or under informed.
Alaknar@sopuli.xyz 21 hours ago
What he said has nothing to do with law. He just said stuff knowing that nobody will do anything to stop him. Or to stop them.
The law is extremely clear in this regard - the ICE dude murdered a person for no reason. The rules on the use of deadly force literally use a moving car as an example of when not to use deadly force - as long as there are “other defence options, such as moving out of the way”.
Schmoo@slrpnk.net 20 hours ago
The law is extremely clear in this regard - the ICE dude murdered a person for no reason. The rules on the use of deadly force literally use a moving car as an example of when not to use deadly force - as long as there are “other defence options, such as moving out of the way”.
When the people tasked with upholding the law consistently disregard it in particular circumstances - as they do when it comes to abuse of power by law enforcement - that law only exists in the circumstances in which it is consistently applied. Things like qualified immunity have effectively nullified any law that ostensibly holds law enforcement accountable. The law does not exist for any other purpose except to protect the dominant socioeconomic group in a given country without binding them, while binding the subjugated socioeconomic group without protecting them. Who is in which group is dynamic and always subject to change, but this rule almost always holds except in cases where very skilled lawyers are able to argue in court that someone in the latter group actually belongs to the former in some specific circumstance. That is the law being used for something that it was not designed to do, a bit like an exploit in a video game soon to be patched.
Snowclone@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
correct. this is a man that admitted openly to lying about immigrants eating pets to foment hatred to fire up his voter base that already hates immigrants.
peteypete420@sh.itjust.works 22 hours ago
Well, that is how the laws where designed.
Alaknar@sopuli.xyz 21 hours ago
This is such a childish thing to say, my god…
explodicle@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
George W Bush went to Yale. That tells you everything you need to know about their standards.
D_C@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Is the murderer absolutely immune from a person who wants to take revenge?
Yeah, ok, the murderer may never meet his legal and justified consequences but will the Nazi government of america always be there to protect him?Now, obviously, ;-);-) , I’m not saying a person should find this guy and do unto him what he has done unto others. Nope. No way…
jj4211@lemmy.world 1 day ago
This is a perspective that the leadership in general should keep in mind.
They are relishing in ignoring laws and treaties and just opting out of consequences. Generally people understand that honoring laws and elections leaves the populace broadly with a sense of justice even with misdeeds and the punishments are, generally, pretty light. Even the light punishments satisfy people.
Continually flaunting these mechanisms and denying people a civilized path to feelings of justice and being heard is a dangerous thing.
It’s why the control bounces back and forth between two sinilar political parties, most people get a sense of “my team won” or “my team will probably win next time” and this placates people. To decide to nope out of these conventions is to invite great risk.
A_Very_Big_Fan@lemmy.world 1 day ago
On an unrelated note, for no reason at all
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Formfiller@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Thiel went to Stanford law ….I think a lot of these evil morons prove that these Ivy League schools are crap
Sine_Fine_Belli@lemmy.world 1 day ago
The Ivy League is overrated, community college and khan academy is underrated
jali67@lemmy.zip 19 hours ago
They’re not “smarter”. They just are better connected.
anon_8675309@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Those schools foster a certain way of thinking.
Ajen@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Seems like those schools were successful in teaching them how our legal system works and how to use it to advance their own goals. Seems like the only thing they didn’t learn is ethics, but their understanding of our legal system is pretty solid.
Formfiller@lemmy.world 23 hours ago
They’re literally out there committing crimes against international law and the constitution every day
Kyle_The_G@lemmy.world 1 day ago
this was such an unhinged rant
jali67@lemmy.zip 18 hours ago
The country heals when this guy dies. I hope he gets an ending he truly deserves.
Sunflier@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
borQue@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
As expected. The Gestapo did exactly the same 90 years ago. Thanks to Trump evolution did not only stop: it went back 90 years. And the American people (just as the German) cannot do anything to stop him anymore. Sad times, sad times.
RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 1 day ago
We need some Nuremberg trials.
ohmy_science@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
And rid the government of maga, a la denazification after ww2
_stranger_@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I prefer the Italian method.
duncan_bayne@lemmy.world 21 hours ago
You’d want a stronger girder than they used.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 1 day ago
jesus fuck im allowed to get the types of immunity wrong im a dipshit. this is just embarrassing im gonna go tease my ivy league educated sister
HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 19 hours ago
its
postmateDumbass@lemmy.world 1 day ago
But the paid thug is operating under directive from really really wealthy people.
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 1 day ago
The lawyers that Yale and Harvard have turned out, have become a scourge on our nation. Close down both of those Psychopath Factories.
seraphine@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
🌽
T00l_shed@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Trumps gonna want to give the murderer the congressional medal of honour
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 1 day ago
As president of congress he’ll get right on that