Trump’s defenders (and some of his critics) are often missing the point of the argument.
President Donald Trump delivers a televised national address on the pandemic from the Oval Office on March 11, 2020. On Jan. 3, 2021, a group of Justice Department officials met in the Oval Office to resolve a critical dispute within President Donald Trump’s administration.
Not really! While all the rest of this scenario occurred, the part about the sword didn’t. If it had, though, good news for Trump: Under the standard set by the Supreme Court on Monday, he probably could not have been held criminally liable for having dismembered his acting attorney general., the case that determined presidents had broad immunity from prosecution for official acts, one hypothetical has captured the public’s imagination.
“Whether he uses the SEAL team or a private hit man, it doesn’t matter,” Barr continued. “It doesn’t make it a carrying out of his authority. So, all these horror stories really are false.”In her concurring dissent, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson specifically articulated a scenario that would presumably render a president immune from prosecution.
Barr’s argument is that a president can’t simply deploy a SEAL team to go kill someone. But, of course, a presidentassess the legality of the move
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