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Trump moves to dismiss his classified documents indictment, citing presidential immunity
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Thanks for that! I found it interesting. But I still don't get the argument. Are they saying that
Cannot apply to Preisdents because Presidents are not included in the set of people that US Attorneys are authorized to conduct proceedings against? Or that since this is all based on US Code, and US Code comes from Congress, it magically can't apply to the President?
I always thought all these arguments for Presidential Immunity were based on standing DoJ policy to not indict sitting Presidents. And that is based simply on the chain of command. It isn't intended to shield corrupt Presidents, but rather to protect ethical Presidents. Since a President is the guy who the DoJ is ultimately accountable to, if they ever investigate a sitting President and exonerate him, his opponents will automatically assume it was rigged, even when it wasn't. Where if you wait until he leaves office, (which is constitutionally guaranteed to happen), you can now have an investigation with more independence.