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PSPS

(14,134 posts)
Fri Nov 15, 2024, 11:51 PM Friday

FLASHBACK: Trump's Pick For Solicitor General Argues Presidential Immunity Covers Assassinating Rivals

President-elect Donald Trump nominated Dean John Sauer to be solicitor general on Thursday. Sauer made headlines earlier in the year as he was the attorney who argued that a president could not be criminally prosecuted for ordering SEAL Team Six to kill a political opponent – at least not until he was impeached and convicted in the U.S. Senate.

Sauer was Trump’s attorney who argued for presidential immunity for Trump in a case that went all the way to the Supreme Court and resulted in the highest court in the country granting former presidents sweeping immunity for “official acts.”

“Most recently, John was the lead counsel representing me in the Supreme Court in Trump v. United States, winning a Historic Victory on Presidential Immunity, which was key to defeating the unConstitutional campaign of Lawfare against me and the entire MAGA Movement,” Trump wrote in his announcement of Saue’s nomination.

If confirmed, Sauer will represent the people of the United States in front of the Supreme Court and will be one of several former personal lawyers of Trump installed at the Justice Department. He has also represented Trump in appealing several civil case verdicts, including those won by E. Jean Carroll and the state of New York.


More at: https://www.mediaite.com/politics/flashback-trumps-pick-for-solicitor-general-argues-presidential-immunity-covers-assassinating-rivals/
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FLASHBACK: Trump's Pick For Solicitor General Argues Presidential Immunity Covers Assassinating Rivals (Original Post) PSPS Friday OP
Now the question is - The Proposed Victim does he/she have the right Dan Saturday #1
"Asking for a few million friends" Baitball Blogger Saturday #2

Dan

(4,095 posts)
1. Now the question is - The Proposed Victim does he/she have the right
Sat Nov 16, 2024, 01:17 AM
Saturday

Of Self Defense?

Asking for a few million friends.

Baitball Blogger

(48,032 posts)
2. "Asking for a few million friends"
Sat Nov 16, 2024, 01:21 AM
Saturday

LOL!

Seriously, we aren't the ones who are a threat to him. It's the millions of millions of anti-government types who own guns that will feel threatened when he begins to dismantle government. Eventually they'll wake up.

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