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Trump Asks Supreme Court to Intervene Over Claim of Absolute Immunity

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Trump Asks Supreme Court to Intervene Over Claim of Absolute Immunity

Former President Donald J. Trump asked the Supreme Court on Monday to pause an appeals court’s ruling rejecting his claim that he is absolutely immune from criminal charges based on his attempts to subvert the 2020 election.

Unless the justices issue a stay while they consider whether to hear his promised appeal, proceedings in the criminal trial, which have been on hold, will resume.

The filing was Mr. Trump’s last-ditch effort to press his claim of total immunity, which has been rejected by two lower courts. The Supreme Court is now poised to determine whether and how fast his federal trial on charges that he tried to subvert the 2020 election will proceed. Unless the justices move quickly, the trial could be pushed into the heart of the 2024 campaign, or even past the election.

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If Trump has absolute immunity for acts committed while president, Biden should order the summary execution of Trump.
- I doubt they will rule in his favor, or at least hope that is the case. The more likely scenario is that they'll play for time. They refused to take the case early a few months ago so that it would be forced into a lower court. That court took it's time and is now complete with the obvious ruling. Now the SCOTUS will take it up and sit on it till November.
- Don't be silly. They believe that the president would only have total immunity until they were impeached by Congress. So Biden would also have to execute anyone in Congress that would vote for impeachment. After that, he should be fine. Totally normal democracy in action.
  
  Ah yes, the saddam hussein purge
- That would be the most ridiculously stupid thing could do, it would be even more horrible and abhorrent than what Trump has ever threatened.
  So, no.
  What he could do, on the other hand, is unilaterally have him removed from any consideration for public office. And that would be perfectly sufficient.
  And far more reasonable.
  
  Joe Biden could also just revoke Donald Trump's citizenship, which would then make him ineligible for office, and then deport him from the country. That would be simultaneously effective, and also completely hilarious.
  
  Horant?
  
  1 man vs the hundreds of thousands Trump got killed?
- It's what the silent majority wants
- And he should dispatch Obama to do it, so they have super double immunity
- Wait. What? We can do that?? Interesting!!
- I can think of quite a few people who would obey such an order.
I love the fact that he’s not even trying to prove his innocence. Just yeah I did it but I shouldn’t be held accountable because I’m an infallible deity or something.
- I'm sure they have at least ten other ridiculous arguments to try and waste time before they would even need to argue innocence.
What even is an appeals court if they dont get to settle appeals?
- Generally, the appeals court is the last stop.
  In saner times, the supreme court usually only steps in when two or more appeals circuits are coming out with different rulings on similar cases.
  Trump pretty much sees the supreme court as his personal hotline.
- The Supreme Court is the final appeals court, so it makes sense that they can be asked to review cases like this. However, in this case I certainly hope they do the logical thing and pass on hearing this case since the appeals court clearly got it right.
  
  This is the second time this question was tossed at SCOTUS. SCOTUS denied hearing the motion the first time around before the trail even began. I've yet to hear a convincing argument on why the high court would change their mind on the matter.
They have to know that if they reject the sound logic of the lower courts then their heads could be literally on the line, if not from the current president, possibly the next.
And again, another delay.

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