Posted on 04/25/2024 4:15:42 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Biden’s Department of Justice (DOJ) argued Thursday before the Supreme Court that droning American citizens is permissible because Obama’s DOJ said so, whereas questioning election results isn’t OK because the government also says so.
The Supreme Court heard arguments on the scope of presidential immunity after special counsel Jack Smith alleged that former President Donald Trump should be tossed in jail for questioning the administration of the 2020 election.
Justice Brett Kavanaugh posed a series of hypotheticals to DOJ attorney Michael Dreeben about the scope of presidential authority, asking whether Gerald Ford’s pardon of Richard Nixon in 1976 could have been investigated for obstruction of justice “on the theory that [Ford was] interfering with the investigation of Richard Nixon.”
Dreeben suggested that particular case would fall under “presidential responsibilities that Congress cannot regulate.”
“How about President Obama’s drone strikes?” Kavanaugh asked.
“So the Office of Legal Counsel looked at this very carefully and determined that, number one, the federal murder statute does apply to the executive branch,” Dreeben said. “The president wasn’t personally carrying out the strike, but the aiding and abetting laws are broad, and it determined that a public authority exception that’s built into statutes and that applied particularly to the murder statute, because it talks about unlawful killing, did not apply to the drone strike.”
“So this is actually the way that the system should function. The Department of Justice takes criminal law very seriously,” Dreeben continued. “It runs it through the analysis very carefully with established principles. It documents them. It explains them. And then the president can go forward in accordance with it. And there is...”
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What a complete CIRCLE JERK
The US government is not supposed to murder US citizens. But they could make a list of “inconvenient” people, pass it to the British, and decline to act if Brits do the work.
And vice-versa.
Bull Caca.
Dreeben is a super queer leftist Nazi cockroach bot.
Well, Barry Sotero did bomb Warren Weinstein in Pakistan and killed him.
The US government is not supposed to murder US citizens. But they could make a list of “inconvenient” people, pass it to the British, and decline to act if Brits do the work.
And vice-versa.
Churchill and Roosevelt probably held a lot of very private meetings re their MI6 guys and our OSS guys’s updated and approved hit lists.
MI6 Code names: The Secret Intelligence Service (SIS), commonly known as MI6 (Military Intelligence, Section 6), is the foreign intelligence service of the United Kingdom, tasked mainly with the covert overseas collection and analysis of human intelligence on foreign nationals in support of its Five Eyes partners.
If it is ok for government officials to kill Americans, then is it ok for American’s to kill government officials?
Statement of intent.
You have to hand it to these leftist cadres, they create this magical contrived constitutional wonderland that perfectly dovetails with all their abuses of lawfare - where they are always Constitutionally sound but whatever Trump did is totally wrong. Even with brand new convoluted legal theories never tried before in the history of America, yet we are told they are rock solid against Trump! Every instance brought up against Democrats - from droning US citizens by Obama or even the other day stopping a federal proceeding by pulling a fire alarm - there they were: no, no, no, those things are allowed and there was no intent, and no corruption - but Trump is all bad intent and evil corruption.
Their whole legal facade is built on a foundation of cotton candy, yet these left wing dedicated cadres goose step in synchronicity, never missing a beat to proudly shout out their strict following of the Constitution - and also, Trump is guilty. (Pretty much before the trial!)
They can let Hillary Clinton use campaign funds to create a Russian hoax to sway an election - that’s not worthy of prosecution - but Trump paying off a stripper is the worst crime of the century.
The bullshit is too much. No one believes them. Trump rises in the polls.
The Hellfire is the most efficient greeting card the white house has ever sent. Ask Barack.
So is this saying thet being a traitor goes back to Osama bin Obama? No surprise here.
There is no such thing as a public authority exemption.
We literally have amendments (5th and 14th) that state government(s) cannot:
“deprive of life, liberty or property without due process of law.”
Droning certainly is depriving someone of life.
AND
it is done without due process.
Statutes cannot override rights and immunities.
That’s because President Retard wiped out a family of 10 including kids
https://www.cnn.com/2021/08/29/asia/afghanistan-kabul-evacuation-intl/index.html
How about F-15s? Biden said American citizens could face F-15s.
fixed it
You can't make this stuff up.
Drones over Delaware eh?
In light of all the communist arguments, there could be more of a threat to the American citizen for wanting their country back.
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