This month, Donald Trump’s lawyers have argued in a federal appeals court that he, as a former American president, is “absolutely” immune from criminal prosecution, possibly even if he were to order the assassination of his political enemies.
The 1973 OLC memo that the Trumpworld elite hopes to expand upon lacks the force of law but as a matter of policy, administrations since the Nixon era have deferred to it as the settled guidance for how to handle potential presidential crimes while in office.
The two memos formed the basis of the Justice Department position that also helped keep then-President Trump free from potential criminal charges during Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s wide-ranging probe into Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election.
Trump plans to appoint a reliably loyal and pliable attorney general and stack the DOJ with a pre-vetted roster of MAGAfied lawyers who would be more responsive to the White House, and effectively erase the federal cases against him.
Foremost among them is that the D.C. appeals court is already poised to answer the question that an OLC memo would seek to settle when it rules on whether the special counsel election subversion case can move forward to trial.
“EVEN EVENTS THAT ‘CROSS THE LINE’ MUST FALL UNDER TOTAL IMMUNITY, OR IT WILL BE YEARS OF TRAUMA TRYING TO DETERMINE GOOD FROM BAD,” Trump wrote in an all-caps social media post earlier this month.
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This month, Donald Trump’s lawyers have argued in a federal appeals court that he, as a former American president, is “absolutely” immune from criminal prosecution, possibly even if he were to order the assassination of his political enemies.
The 1973 OLC memo that the Trumpworld elite hopes to expand upon lacks the force of law but as a matter of policy, administrations since the Nixon era have deferred to it as the settled guidance for how to handle potential presidential crimes while in office.
The two memos formed the basis of the Justice Department position that also helped keep then-President Trump free from potential criminal charges during Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s wide-ranging probe into Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election.
Trump plans to appoint a reliably loyal and pliable attorney general and stack the DOJ with a pre-vetted roster of MAGAfied lawyers who would be more responsive to the White House, and effectively erase the federal cases against him.
Foremost among them is that the D.C. appeals court is already poised to answer the question that an OLC memo would seek to settle when it rules on whether the special counsel election subversion case can move forward to trial.
“EVEN EVENTS THAT ‘CROSS THE LINE’ MUST FALL UNDER TOTAL IMMUNITY, OR IT WILL BE YEARS OF TRAUMA TRYING TO DETERMINE GOOD FROM BAD,” Trump wrote in an all-caps social media post earlier this month.
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