Good news for Biden.
Assuming heās a sociopath
I suppose the best possible outcome of the immuntiy decision is that Biden (and Obama and Bush and Clinton and Carter assuming he lives to 2025) will be immune from revenge seeking prosecution for official acts. Because revenge has been promised and will be sought.
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Not much of a premium paid for a house with an in-ground pool in PEI because only a few months of the year to use it. However PEI is gorgeous and the two main cities are lovely. We used to spend some time there when my wifeās parents were in Halifax. Beaches are beautiful.
Theyāre immune from revenge seeking prosecution, but just wait until we see the revenge seeking āofficial acts of the President.ā
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I came downstairs from work to find my wife, who is a TikTok addict but otherwise happily oblivious to political news du jour, watching a TikTokād rendition of the Sotomayor dissent.
Iām not a huge fan of Laurence Tribe, but here is his take:
Beyond maybe the already-decided civil cases, he is never going to face prosecution for anything criminal. And, anyone suing him civilly will never get him inside a courtroom for a case. His lawyers will argue heās immune in anything and everything, fights will have to be waged charge-by-charge through the courts, and if heās still alive SCOTUS is going to say whatever he did falls within the very outer scope of his job duties and so he canāt be held liable.
PEI seems to have a lot of land vulnerable to flooding during storm events. Iād check and elevation map and flood plains maps and try to get an idea on insurance rates.
I thought the payoff happened prior to his being elected? If that was the case, I donāt see how it could be an official act. Iād also question it even if it did happen after the election as this was personal funds.
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The payoff to Daniels was before the election, but the charged crime was the fraudulent repayments to Cohen that were claimed to be legal fees but were really grossed up reimbursements. That happened after the election, but is still presumably unofficial as Cohen was never part of the government.
The issue as I understand it is that evidence that falls under the official category cannot be brought to bear under the unofficial category. E.g., arguably White House phone logs that prove that a certain conversation took place could be considered part of the official logging of what the President does and thus not admissible as evidence to confirm things that Cohen may have testified to.
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Thank you for providing additional details. To pick this nit a little furtherā¦ I assume itās not āafter the electionā that is relevant but āafter being sworn in as POTUSā.
If it happened between Election Day and January 20, it still wouldnāt be an official act, right?
I think you are correct there, although the key date is the inauguration. The first payment was after that.
It seems the SC would put the phone logs off limits. However, NY also had paper records and testimony from a Trump employee who created the record.
There have been a lot of āTrump as kingā comments going around various media. Being American, Iād never really thought about it. Does British royalty get away with breaking the law? Do they get to do whatever they want? Could they just murder someone on Piccadilly Circus and get away with it? What would happen if they broke UK campaign laws? What would happen if they tried to overturn an election? Is it similar in other modern kingdoms?
See Charles I.
Yeah, Iām thinking more recently than that. How about Charles III?
The power of the British monarchy in Canada continues to decline whereas the American Presidentās ability to be above the law is on the rise. Go figure.
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I donāt know if what seems like a routine request for information / clarification is indicative of fear. But it certainly points out that the monarch is generally above the law.
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