How is it unconstitutional? He works for the People. The records aren't his personally. They belong to the People.
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The Whitehouse he vandalized also belongs to the people
He works for the People
You're assuming the old system is still in place. The position description has now changed to "He rules the people."
Supreme Court already decided that the president of the United States has immunity for any and all official acts. There are no laws that apply Trump at the moment. All he has to do is wrap his actions or inactions in some flimsy pretext of it being an official act of the office of the president.
Though I appreciate these cases continuing to slap the Supreme Court justices in the face for their disastrous ruling.
I think it's amazing that people can say:
Supreme Court already decided that the president of the United States has immunity for any and all official acts.
And follow it with:
There are no laws that apply Trump at the moment.
Qualifiers are important in legal matters, and in this case, it is the word "Official." Official Acts are those outlined in the Constitution.
For instance, a lot of MAGAs worked up a dose of faux outrage for Obama drone-striking a wedding, and killing innocent people. MAGA wanted to characterize it as murder, and charge him. In that case, the Supreme Court decision would protect him, because greenlighting the drone-bombing of a known terrorist is part of his presidential duties.
But using your presidential office to steal, take bribes, launder dirty money, obstruct justice, commit election fraud, systematically deny citizens rights, etc., are NOT Official Constitutional Duties, and he doesn't have immunity for those CRIMES.
He may not be able to be prosecuted while in office, but once he's out, his presidential immunity will not extend to criminal activity.
They never defined "official acts". They are whatever Trump's Supreme Court wants them to be.
Any reasonable reading of "Official" would mean those indicated in the Constitution. What are the Presidential duties outlined in the Constitution but Official? If those aren't the Official duties, what are they?
They clearly aren't just suggestions. Article 1/ Sections 2 & 3 is full of "Shalls," leaving little doubt that this is the job. If there are no other indications for anything else to make a claim to be Official acts, then it would be reasonable to default to following the Constitutional duties, which were conceived to be the OFFICIAL duties of the POTUS.
Any reasonable reading
Yeah, but WTF does that have to do with the current SCOTUS?
Bullshit
"Most transparent president in US history", my ass.
He’s transparent. Just not in the way he promised.
Making up shit as they go.
They're quite literally begging for an uprising.
Are they gonna get one?
Hahaha. I will take the under on that bet all day every day
What if the next president just, doesn’t care, and raids wherever he has these records with the marines?
Seems like something Trump would do and this would absolutely be an official act…
I wouldn't count on the SC decision, they've made it clear their decisions are now heavily partisan.
Heck there may even still be a Republican president, and majority in the house and/or senate next presidency, because of voter suppression, literal direct vote manipulation (cheating/rigging), Elon offering idiot voters million dollar cheques, media capture (lying and brainwashing), voter apathy, an astounding amount of cognitively damaged voters that no longer value right and wrong or can tell truth from fiction... Etcetc.
Trump and his allies broke so many election laws and tried their hardest to cheat in the last two elections and there were essentially no consequences for Trump, only benefits, and few consequences for his allies - many of which have now been pardoned / rewarded.. and now his cronies run everything. I don't see how you guys vote your way out of this tbh.
Still vote of course, but set expectations that they'll cheat and prepare for a disaster. The last two elections have been bad, but the next election is going to be a goddamn mess.
Shocking. I’m shocked, I tell you.
Well, that will only matter if his DOJ is still there when he gets indicted
Well FreshParsnip says he is. I also demand he buy each American a meal