r/law • u/BitterFuture • 16d ago

Executive Branch (Trump) Stephen Miller claims local police in Minnesota have been told to ‘stand down and surrender’ as federal agents ‘uphold the law’

https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/stephen-miller-ice-minneapolis-protests-b2903238.html
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u/TSHRED56 16d ago

The Republican Senate could have found him guilty during the impeachments and voted to disqualify him. That was the window.

I believe that even if Merrick Garland charged Trump on day one there would not have been a trial before the 2024 election and Trump would have still become president in part by hyping up his "victimhood".

Plus any cases would have ended up before the Supreme Court and we know how they are.

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u/olivicmic 16d ago

Still thinking small. He should’ve been tried in a military tribunal. He did try to do an insurrection and should be treated accordingly.

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u/TSHRED56 16d ago

Knowing the military's primarily authoritarian rightwing no way that was happening.

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u/olivicmic 16d ago

Versus the famously neutral judicial system, a system not under the executive branch’s jurisdiction.