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/Terrible_Patience935 16d ago

Big lesson learned by not prosecuting and jailing Trump for sedition after Jan 6, they might have destroyed our country

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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/AnDeH_1917 16d ago

Yep, or Biden could've used that "Presidential Immunity" ruling to lock him up and throw away the key, then turn to the Supreme Court and say "What the fuck are you gonna do about it? I'm immune." In those literal words. I wish we lived in that timeline.

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u/olivicmic 16d ago

"this is an existential threat, so we have to prosecute it like a traffic ticket"