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g0177325: I REALLY want to hear Sotomayor clarify what she meant by her Seal Team 6 scenario. Was it just hyperbole for rhetorical effect, or does she really think that scenario is possible and could satisfy the SCOTUS decision granting full Presidential immunity "for official acts".
It's not because it's "an official act" but because the decision grants total immunity for any actions a president takes using the “core powers” that the Constitution bestows on the office. One such power is the authority to command the military.
If Trump, as commander in chief, ordered his troops to assassinate somebody or stage a coup, that would seem to fall within the absolute immunity provision of the court’s decision.
Now maybe he'd have a hard time finding someone to carry out such an order but I'm betting someone would be willing to do so.
And as someone else here pointed out, Alito broached the scenario during oral arguments. Roberts, writing the majority opinion did not attempt to directly carve out such extreme examples but instead admonished the dissenters for “fear mongering on the basis of extreme hypotheticals.”
Yet as Trump's own former Defense Secretary, Mark Esper, said, Trump wanted to shoot protesters. Even his own AG, Bill Barr, said Trump often floated the idea of killing his critics.
So, sorry, but albaby1 still seems to believe Trump is a rational human being. He ain't.
