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Andrew Parker @andrewparker.bsky.social · 6 days
In the sense that the president couldn’t be prosecuted for giving the order, probably. I’m not 100% sure what he’d have been charged with before But a lot of the discussion of this blurs the distinction between “can’t be prosecuted for making the order” and “can’t be prosecuted for carrying it out”
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right. the president could order troops to suppress protesters using live fire and the supreme court would extend that absolute immunity
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Ben Wheeler @bentwhee.bsky.social · 6 days
But the order itself could not be submitted as evidence in the prosecution.
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Andrew Parker @andrewparker.bsky.social · 6 days
Sure, but then you’d just have “these soldiers opened fire on civilians on American soil” and the soldiers can be prosecuted.
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Innocent🕷Abroad @jjgass.bsky.social · 6 days
That's what the pardon power is for
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Andrew Parker @andrewparker.bsky.social · 6 days
Absolutely, but also something that was true yesterday. If the only thing between us and that was that there was a small chance Trump could have been prosecuted before (and now there isn’t) we were already fucked.