So I have a couple of questions which have just come to me.
When travelling abroad, on your visa application/immigration form you need to declare if you have been convicted of a criminal offence. If Trump doesn’t admit to his conviction due to him being convinced it was a sham trial and bogus charge, can he still be arrested as POTUS in another country for false decleration?
If a sitting president were to be arrested abroad for such a charge, what would the official response of the US government be?
Oh, THOSE are not “official acts”
Why not?
We’re not sure yet. We’ll get back to you, but not until after the election, but you just very definitely cannot do them.
This likely gives them a reason to have the Manhattan case overturned on appeal. Part of this ruling made using acts in office inadmissible as evidence in supporting charges for acts conducted out of office. With at least some of the evidence used in Bragg’s case being acts conducted as president, it now gives an argument to throw out the conviction.
Originalists on the court rule that checks and balances were never intended and the president was always supposed to be elevated above the congress.
But yes, the surprise is the 3 in dissent not agreeing to a totally fucking bonkers interpretation of presidential power just in the interest of presenting a united front
