Presidential immunity

Tommy Tainant

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If the prez can do whatever they want why is the GOP pursuing Biden. ?
Surely it is just a waste of time. biden can just pardon himself for anything he has done.

So is trump above the law ? Because if he is then so is biden.
 
If the prez can do whatever they want why is the GOP pursuing Biden. ?
Surely it is just a waste of time. biden can just pardon himself for anything he has done.

So is trump above the law ? Because if he is then so is biden.
BUT TRUMP WAS SENT BY GOD TO SAVE AMERICA FROM EVIL I TELL YOU

SO THAT'S REALLY DIFFERENT 'N STUFF
 

If the prez can do whatever they want why is the GOP pursuing Biden. ?
Surely it is just a waste of time. biden can just pardon himself for anything he has done.

So is trump above the law ? Because if he is then so is biden.

See, it works like this…

You can’t prosecute someone who is running for President
You can’t prosecute someone while they are President
They have Presidential immunity after they are no longer President
 
And Thomas was sent by Biden.
On October 15, 1991, Thomas was confirmed to the Supreme Court of the United States by a narrow Senate majority of 52 to 48.
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On July 1, 1991, President Bush nominated Judge Clarence Thomas of the District of Columbia Circuit to replace retiring justice Thurgood Marshall, a civil rights icon and the court's first African American justice.[10] When introducing Thomas that day, the president called him "the best person" in the country to take Marshall's place on the court, a characterization belied, according to constitutional law expert Michael Gerhardt, by Thomas's "limited professional distinction, with his most significant legal experiences having been a controversial tenure as chairman of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and barely more than one year of experience as a federal court of appeals judge."
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Mayer and Abramson say Biden abdicated control of the Thomas confirmation hearings and did not call Angela Wright to the stand.[41] They report that four women traveled to Washington, D.C., to corroborate Anita Hill's claims, including Wright and Jourdain.[41]

According to Mayer and Abramson, soon after Thomas was sworn in, three reporters for The Washington Post "burst into the newsroom almost simultaneously with information confirming that Thomas's involvement with pornography far exceeded what the public had been led to believe."[68] These reporters had eyewitness testimony and video rental records showing Thomas's interest in and use of pornography.[69] However, according to Jeffrey Toobin, because Thomas was already sworn in by the time the video store evidence emerged, The Washington Post dropped the story.[68] The book by Mayer and Abramson was subsequently made into a movie.
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Thomas won with the support of 41 Republicans and 11 Democrats, while 46 Democrats and 2 Republicans voted to reject his nomination.
Thanks, Joe.
 
There seems to be a huge lack of comment from the frothng community on this thread.

Is the question too complex for them ?
 

If the prez can do whatever they want why is the GOP pursuing Biden. ?
Surely it is just a waste of time. biden can just pardon himself for anything he has done.

So is trump above the law ? Because if he is then so is biden.
In its 1867 decision Mississippi v. Johnson, the Supreme Court established that the President is largely beyond the reach of the judiciary by holding that it could not direct President Andrew Johnson in how he exercised his purely executive and political powers.1 The Court stated, it had no jurisdiction . . . to enjoin the President in the performance of his official duties.2
https://constitution.congress.gov/browse/essay/artII-S3-5-1/ALDE_00013392/

Finally, with respect to civil liability, the Court held in Nixon v. Fitzgerald that the President is absolutely immune in actions for civil damages for all acts within the outer perimeter of his official duties.15 The Court’s close decision was premised on the President’s unique position in the constitutional scheme, that is, the Court conducted a kind of ‘public policy’ analysis of the policies and principles that may be considered implicit in the nature of the President’s office in a system structured to achieve effective government under a constitutionally mandated separation of powers.16
 

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