An Ohio law allowing citizens to file criminal charges is being used to target former President Donald Trump and Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH) over their comments about Haitians in Springfield.According to Fox 8, the Haitian Bridge Alliance filed criminal charges against the two Republican candidates at Cl...
  • CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    29·
    2 months ago

    Technically the ruling was for crimes official acts he committed while in office.

    He’s no longer president and holds no privilege, except being the Republican nominatee for President. Which apparently is a protected class.

    • samus12345@lemmy.worldEnglish
      61·
      2 months ago

      Correct. Regardless, it has been codified that he IS above the law in some cases. Slippery slope is not a fallacy in this instance.

    • KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      21·
      2 months ago

      even as a president, this wouldn’t be protected under the immunity act, only presidential actions. Speaking to the public, as far as i am concerned is not considered to be a core “presidential action” in the government.

        • KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
          1·
          2 months ago

          while this is true, they still have a basis to operate under. There are certain things that aren’t official acts. Posting on social media wouldn’t be one. There are things that are, and those have absolute immunity (bad) there are also things that have presumptive immunity (which means you have to rule on whether or not these are admissible evidence) and this has had a direct effect on the jan 6th hearing, removing like 9 pages of communication between government officials, which is about all they could remove from the hundreds of pages that were there already.