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Author: commonone ✸🐝 HONORARY
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Subject: Re: What the Parade of Horribles Gets Wrong
Date: 07/03/2024 5:49 PM
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Lapsody: Which is why Sortamayor's [sic] Seal Team 6 claim looks so daft. I stared at that when I saw it - am I missing something?

Yeah, you are.

Since the president commands Seal Team 6, he can instruct it to do anything he likes and as long as he argues that “I was doing that pursuant to my constitutional authority” the courts are going to grant him immunity.

There's no way for you to argue that he was misusing his power, even if he uses his power corruptly. As Sotomayor argues in her dissent, this new rule is going to prevent prosecutors from even charging a president with the crime of manipulating the tools of his office to engage in corruption after he leaves office.

Just because you say, "Well, gee, it's obvious that's not within his constitutional authority" doesn't make it so and good luck even getting the complaint into a courtroom.
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