• aidan@lemmy.worldM
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    7 months ago

    Immunity doesn’t make something legal, it just protects you from prosecution unless it’s revoked

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      7 months ago

      The “immunity” that Trump wants the USSC to give him is effectively intrinsic, monarch-caliber “I am the law” immunity - effectively, he is working to get the court to declare that he is somehow just above the law in a categorical sense. We are not talking about immunity in the context of its understood and agreed upon legal definition in the United States.

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        7 months ago

        Oh lol, I mean I think his legal team is just throwing everything at the wall and seeing what sticks