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   From: trumptronic@gmail.com   
      
   If this case was about that gay nigger Obama, Democrats would be dancing in   
   the streets and lighting bonfires.   
      
   Former Attorney General Bill Barr brushed off what he called “horror   
   stories” raised by Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor in her dissent on   
   the high court’s ruling on former President Trump’s immunity claim.   
      
   “The worst example I think, the one that makes no sense whatsoever, is the   
   idea he can use SEAL Team 6 to kill a political opponent. The president has   
   the authority to defend the country against foreign enemies, armed conflict   
   and so forth,” Barr said Monday on Fox News.   
      
   “He has the authority to direct the justice system against criminals at   
   home. He doesn’t have authority to go and assassinate people,” he added.   
   “So, whether he uses the SEAL team or a private hit man, it doesn’t matter;   
   it doesn’t make it a carrying out of his authority. So, all these horror   
   stories really are false.”   
      
   The SEAL Team 6 example was addressed in Sotomayor’s dissent to the Supreme   
   Court’s immunity ruling Monday. Sotomayor said the Supreme Court’s decision   
   to grant Trump immunity for official acts “completely insulate[s] presidents   
   from criminal liability” in a forceful dissent.   
      
   “When he uses his official powers in any way, under the majority’s   
   reasoning, he now will be insulated from criminal prosecution,” Sotomayor   
   wrote. “Orders the Navy’s Seal Team 6 to assassinate a political rival?   
   Immune,” she continued. “Organizes a military coup to hold onto power?   
   Immune. Takes a bribe in exchange for a pardon? Immune. Immune, immune,   
   immune.”   
      
   The Supreme Court handed down the 6-3 decision on Monday, ruling along   
   ideological lines that presidents have absolute immunity for actions that   
   fall within the core responsibilities of their office and are “at least   
   presumptively immune” for all other official acts.   
      
   “I think this was a very sensible decision that I think most lawyers   
   familiar with this area expected … which is this went up to the court in a   
   very abstract posture, which was the government’s very broad assertion there   
   was no immunity whatsoever,” Barr remarked.   
      
   When asked about the fears the ruling could empower Trump to wield executive   
   power in “more extreme ways,” Barr noted the Supreme Court’s job is to   
   write   
   a “timeless opinion” that does not necessarily discuss the specific   
   circumstances at hand.   
      
   “I would say what the chief justice said in the opinion, which is the   
   Supreme Court has to write an opinion, a timeless opinion, an opinion that   
   covers all situations in the future and that will be good for the country   
   over the long haul,” Barr said. “And they can’t write opinions tailored   
   to   
   the particular exigencies of the moment.”   
      
   The high court’s ruling handed Trump a win as he stares down a federal   
   criminal election subversion case brought by special counsel Jack Smith.   
      
   The decision is likely to delay the trial, first sending the case back to a   
   lower court to determine whether his actions on Jan. 6, 2021, merit   
   protection from criminal prosecution for decisions made while in the White   
   House.   
      
   “And I think the … practical effect of this is that the district court is   
   going to do what it really should have done at the beginning, which the   
   government really should have had it do, which is do the analysis. So, the   
   facts are going up to the Supreme Court, so as a practical matter, there’s   
   not going to be a trial of this case before the election,” Barr said.   
      
   Sotomayer is a fool and always has been.   
      
   https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/4750625-bill-barr-supreme-   
   court-immunity-ruling/   
      
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