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If you haven't seen it, I highly recommend catching the latest South Park episode. They nailed the essence of this douchebag. Impeccable timing, too. 

I thought it was a great episode
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4 hours ago, Hookah Horns said:

If you haven't seen it, I highly recommend catching the latest South Park episode. They nailed the essence of this douchebag. Impeccable timing, too. 

Is the whole series now just making fun of the dotard and this batshit government?  Hilarious if so. They are good on content for the next 3 years minimum. 

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18 hours ago, Nice Guy Eddie said:

We've learned that a SCOTUS ruling can be overturned. I don't think there is any reason to believe that a President is immune from a bribery charge. Perhaps not while in office but definitely afterwards. Now perhaps the Supreme Court could say otherwise. Did they specifically say that a ex-President couldn't be held accountable via a criminal prosecution after they leave office?

For core constitutional functions, yes.  The only remedy for presidential criminality is impeachment, which can presumably be followed by prosecution.

Under this scheme then, using pardons as an example of an undoubtedly core constitutional function, POTUS could profit to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars for pardons granted toward the end of a term when there is insufficient time to impeach.

This would have been a much better hypothetical horrible than "Seal Team 6 killing political enemies," that was dismissed as hysterical.

One problem with all this is, outside of Trump, it never comes up or has not in the last 250 years.  

Congress could speed it up by enacting some Presidential crimes, though, and get a more sane Court to oveturn/revise the ruling.

After consideration, all presidential immunity should be presumptive, only, the presumption overcome by balancing the "chilling effect" against other considerations.

 

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15 minutes ago, Biff Tannen said:

Is the whole series now just making fun of the dotard and this batshit government?  Hilarious if so. They are good on content for the next 3 years minimum. 

They've taken parody of Trump and his administration into overdrive.

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5 hours ago, Ghost of LL said:

There's a real jurisdictional question in there.  If Hegseth ordered a murder in the Pentagon, is it a crime under Virginia law even if it was carried out elsewhere?

as i understand it, cases on federal property usually go to federal court; however, the feds can choose not to prosecute and refer it to state court as anything that happens within the borders of a state given rise to jurisdiction and venue UNLESS there's a specific federal statute granting exclusive and sole jurisdiction to the feds.  for example, there are times where MP/JAG will decline a case where the crime occurred on Fort Cavazos/Hood...usually a very minor deal they don't wanna fuck with...and call Bell Co. S.O. to handle it (they, too, can deny prosecution for their own reasons).  admittedly i'm not at all well-versed on the rules or law here, simply stating what happens in the real world.  i could very well be wrong and what i just stated may well be some sort of local practice where everyone turns their head.  but we've tried to get cases kicked arguing exclusive federal jurisdiction and denied relief each time.

fucking county court at law judges, man...



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