Joshua J. Friedman: NEW: House GOP leadership is whipping support on a bill that would allow former presidents to move state-level cases against them to federal court (so Trump could pardon himself)

NEW: House GOP leadership is whipping support on a bill that would allow former presidents to move state-level cases against them to federal court (so Trump could pardon himself)

Scoop: Mike Johnson seeks GOP votes for bill to support Trump after guilty verdictwww.axios.com Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) is under pressure from GOP hardliners to schedule a vote on the measure as part of a full-court press to defend Trump.

Not sure why the link has stopped working for the moment, but here's the main text

It's an act of obeisance for Trump: probably won't make it out of the House and has no chance of even being introduced in the Senate.

maybe Chuck SHOULD introduce it in the Senate. And then let the Republicans come to the floor, one by one, to try to defend it there too, as well as the House Republicans.

This link just worked for me www.axios.com/2024/06/07/s...

Scoop: Mike Johnson seeks GOP votes for bill to support Trump after guilty verdictwww.axios.com GOP hardliners want a full-court press to defend Trump, but some centrists are uneasy.

The link works for me 🤷‍♂️

Yes, now it's back!

I'm amused by the suggestion that there are still moderate republicans.

How do we make the GOP (more) afraid of injustice and poor leadership than they are of Trump? And don’t you dare say “at the ballot box” because that clearly isn’t fckn working.

Working for me now

Someone again please explain why Dems are propping up this guy

Ukraine

(The lawyers are pointing out that moving a state case to federal court would NOT actually let Trump pardon himself)

Yeah. And conservative lawyers said states abortion bans have exemptions for the mothers life.

But friendly Judge Cannon's will move at a pace that gives geologists a nosebleed

Trump does not care what the law is he will pardon himself anyway.

While I have no idea myself, I’d bet the flag wavers at SCOTUS might weigh in with a word or two.

I like how a federal courthouse now seems like the “safe zone” in a game of tag to them.

The stuff House Republicans are doing is so stupid that it's not worth thinking of a clever insult to their intelligence, since they would not understand an adequate insult.

I feel confident that six out of nine Supreme Court Justices will disagree with the lawyers here on Bluesky.

If you are a Republican, you are voting for government-funded cover ups for rich people's crimes. Disgusting

they know that, its intentional they LIKE those rich people and think the crimes are bogus; they see this sort of legislation as righteous hamstringing of a corrupt system unfairly attacking their heroes

(most of) the legislators themselves know its just a stunt but gop voters eat this shit up and their vote counts just as much as anyone elses even if they are venal, ignorant, short sighted, and motivated primarily by manufactured greviances

except if you’re a woman 😉(martha stewart, elizabeth holmes…)

To them, white collar crimes are fake and besides we're all Temporarily Embarrassed Millionaires anyway

From the party of sTAAAAaaaaaaatEeSsss RIIIGGHHHTTTSSSsssss

So if i have this right? ...Jim Jordan's "stop the weaponization of the federal government" sham hearings are FOR the purpose of weaponizing the Federal government so The convicted Felon that the GOP is currently enjoying sucking off, can get away with committing crimes.

It would not have occurred to me that a president could pardon a conviction in federal court for a state crime. I need to think about this.

Yeah, seems bogus. Already regretting my phrasing.

It says it in the article, so your phrasing wasn't the issue.

I mean that could be their intent, it wouldn't be the first time they've done something that didn't work legally Or the eighteenth time Or the two hundredth

No, you could be right! I haven’t researched it. There is already a federal officer removal statute so there might be law on this

Party of law and ordure

The only way this would pass is if they win the presidency AND both chambers. Pretty sure Biden would veto it.

If they win all 3 this would be the least of our problems.

ah, the party of states' rights...

This would not let him pardon himself

The No More Political Prosecutions Act that Speaker Johnson is trying to get passed now is HR 2553, a/k/a The Donald J. Trump Relief Act, which has already been reported out of committee. You can find all the details in the report: www.congress.gov/118/crpt/hrp...

(It simply expands the set of cases subject to the current removal act. Thus, it does not make state crimes pardonable by the president.)

The canonical example of when federal criminal removal is a good idea was the case of a U.S. Marshal who, while assigned as a SCOTUS justice's bodyguard, shot and killed a maniac who attacked the justice, then was charged by the People of California with murder. ...

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Because the maniac was a former California Supreme Court Chief Justice, the U.S. Marshal was fortunate to be able to get his fate decided by the federal courts, which exonerated him. (In re Neagle, 135 US 1 (1889)) tile.loc.gov/storage-serv...

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Thank you!

Doesn't, and couldn't

The No More PP Act?

Frankly I doubt Biden would sign such a bill

An actual separate justice system for presidents. No doubt just what The Founders intended.

They're doing States' Rights wrong...

What do you mean? States rights exist to serve the Money Power and the Southern gentry - they seem to be working as designed.

Now, I'm not very smart, but wouldn't the Federal Government just arbitrarily stepping in to move state-level cases to a Federal Court be a major violation of the 10th Amendment?

Yes, but you’d have to get the current SCOTUS to agree.

We don't need to wonder what happened to the secret files in David Pecker and Jeffrey Epstein's vaults, do we?

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