He’ll talk out both sides of his mouth. He will say the president doesn’t have absolute immunity but be the first in line to sign legislation that says just that.
“During the Trump impeachment, you said that he could still be held accountable in a court of law, his lawyers are trying to argue that only stands if he were impeached and convicted first.
If the Supreme Court validates that opinion, would you change your mind and vote to convict?”
Uh huh. Just like you were outraged at the audacity of a violent mob threatening democracy itself the day it happened, and then you covered for Trump and blocked his impeachment days later.
Mitch McConnell will reliably hold this position until a Republican is back in office - just like his objections over lame duck Supreme Court appointments and everything fucking else. How many times is the media going to fall for his bullshit.
I don’t understand what there is to discuss here at all. If the US president had immunity as a matter of principle, he wouldn’t be a president, he’d be some kind of god-king (even kings couldn’t do whatever they wanted).
Well, I’m not very familiar with the US Constitution. But if there really is any leeway for such advances, it doesn’t seem to me to be a good constitution for a democratic country.
From what I understand it’s just another way he’s making a mockery of the justice system. He’s making these absurd claims so he can have new cases come up and delay delay delay delay. Once he becomes president he can then have his DOJ dog wipe it all away.
Now that it is no longer politically inconvenient for him, he comes out against Trump? Wow, color me surprised.
Seems like a lot of Republicans are going to have collective amnesia about their role in supporting Trump when he gets ousted from political power (and that can’t come soon enough). No amnesty for spineless coward Republicans when that happens.
Well, I guess it’s nice to see this piece of shit sycophant at least has some limits… he still deserves to fall off a cliff into an portal of infinite dick, and get fucked.
He, and other Republicans, are scared because this ruling would come when Biden is president and are projecting.
If Trump’s lawyer convinces the Supreme Court that the president can assassinate political enemies then that might be a bit scary for the current President’s political enemies.
It’s important to note that the inverse isn’t necessarily true, and in fact McConnell is a counterexample: despite the fact that he did break with Trump on this, he’s still literally a traitor to this country anyway.
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