Attorney General Jackley Joins Coalition Supporting Trump’s Presidential Immunity Stay Request to U.S. Supreme Court
PIERRE, S.D. – South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley has joined 21 Attorneys General in filing an amicus brief that supports former President Donald Trump’s stay request regarding presidential immunity to the U.S. Supreme Court.
Former President Trump has asked the Supreme Court to stay a decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit which said Trump could not invoke presidential immunity as a defense against criminal charges related to the 2020 presidential election and the Jan. 6, 2021 incident at the U.S. Capitol.
The special prosecutor in the case is also seeking a quick decision by the U.S. Supreme Court on Trump’s stay request so the trial can start this year. The initial trial set was set for this March.
“These are serious charges, and a defendant, even one who is a candidate for President, deserves a right to have time to prepare an adequate defense,” said Attorney General Jackley. “The Attorneys General do not believe that speeding up the legal process for political reasons would be appropriate.”
Attorneys Generals also have signed on from the states of Alabama, Alaska, Florida, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Texas, Utah, West Virginia, and Wyoming.
The brief can be read here:
“Former President Trump’s legal team suggested Tuesday that even a president directing SEAL Team Six to kill a political opponent would be an action barred from prosecution given a former executive’s broad immunity to criminal prosecution.” (The Hill 1/9/24)
This is what our Attorney General wastes his time defending? Seriously?
was Obama prosecuted for the extra-judicial executions of US citizens Anwar and Abdulrahman al-Awlaki? They were targeted in separate drone strikes in Yemen, both were US citizens, and Abdulrahman was only 16 years old.
If Trump had ordered their executions without trial or conviction, the libs would be screaming bloody murder.
But because Obama put them on his kill list, it was okay.
You’ve gotten to the point now where you can’t even condemn murder if it’s committed by your guy. All you can manage to do is come up with some ridiculously lame comparison.
Killing two US citizens without anything resembling due process is not some “ridiculously lame comparison.”
The subject came up as a hypothetical example in court. Trump never did it.
Obama actually did it.
He wants to declare himself above the law. Even if he went so far as to kill his political opponent. And here you are, scraping the barrel to find someone, somewhere who died at the hands of some other President… to excuse it.
This conservative US Supreme Court will smack him down on this. How they do it… is the only question. It’s an insane argument.
Presidential immunity? So if they give it to Trump, Biden can legally assassinate Trump and never leave office. There is nothing anyone will be able to do.
Well done Attorney General Jackley.
Kneel before Cheeto Jesus I guess. Can we appropriate some general fund dollars too and help him pay his civil judgments? The perverse part of me wants him to get elected, disband most of the administrative state, ignore the courts and rule for the next 10 years before handing it off to Ivanka.
Embarrassing
So far 5 cases of terminal Trump Derangement Syndrome nut jobs on this thread. Seek help people, seek help.
We don’t like sexual assaulters like you do. Perfectly fine with being called deranged if it pertains to criticizing a rapist, fraud, liar, and insurrectionist. No one cares about the putin apologists who are upset at criticism of the orange cheeto cult leader.
TDS
Of course. He literally thinks he should have immunity for murder… and you call ME deranged.
TDS X2
Obama was never prosecuted for killing US citizens, even one as young as 16.
Unbelievable. Apparently swift justice is for the great unwashed only. Jackley has proven himself to be a hypocrite and a fool.
trump has a horrible time in court. he can’t get charges dismissed and can’t seem to avoid being found guilty. i’d want to stay out of court too if i was him, and would cherish good friends like all the a’s g who are listed.
He hasn’t been found “guilty” of anything, dummy.
Agree with Enquirer. South Dakota has no business sticking its’ nose into this Supreme Court case. What our former President really needs is better lawyers. So far, he’s 1 for about 95 in court cases of various kinds and is down over half a billion dollars. That’s what happens when you take the legal advice of Rudy, John Eastman, and the Pillow Guy. Where’s Lee J. Bailey when you need him.
Maybe he just did the things he’s accused of.
sorry terry, i think you conflated f. lee bailey and lee j. cobb the actor, who admittedly could probably have given trump better advice too. all i said is that this is a good time to have your friends stand up for you.
F. Lee Bailey, Melvin Belli, Johnny Cochran would all be better for Trump than the collection of second stringers he brings with him into court. I don’t blame his lawyer in the civil fraud case, as she had nothing to defend…Trump’s sister sued him (and won) some years ago over the manner in which he ran his company and inflated values, misreported taxes, and short changed his sisters, and the child of his deceased brother in favor of his own children. Next up, Stormy Daniels hush money trial. Will he be defended by Judge Jeanie??
This inflated values thing is bogus. Real estate, lime anything else, is only worth what somebody is willing to pay for it.
If you use something as collateral, the value of it is subjective.
If you do not pay off the debt, and the lien holder is unable to sell it to recover the loss, that’s fraud. But if you redeem the item, you just proved it is indeed worth that much money to somebody, because YOU just bought it back.
you’re right. time and money is being wasted on these small fry fraud cases. we should cut right to the main events – in georgia, florida and DC. it’s way past time.
He could have great lawyers but when you are guilty they can only hope to twist the truth. Send Trump to jail
Here is what the Supreme Court will rule:
Presidents have broad immunity for acts committed in the performance of their Constitutional Authorities (ala assassination of foreign enemies but not US citizens, conducting foreign relations, executive actions related to running of the government) with the primary arbiter of whether personal crimes have been committed and innocence/guilt is the House and Senate while the Supreme Court will remain the arbiter if the Presidential actions violate express laws of Congress (ala spending money on tanks when Congress approved planes)
I will not hold my breath waiting for Obama to answer for the deaths of US citizens, the al-Awlakis.
“…the primary arbiter of whether personal crimes have been committed and innocence/guilt is the House and Senate”
No way. Not a chance.
a fair panel of house members on the january 6th committee gathered and cataloged a wealth of evidence of insurrection, as hard as trump and his people tried to sabotage and scuttle the effort. if we lose faith in the remaining institutions of government, when we petition with the full truth versus the fox-news version of events, we have nothing left. i choose faith and the best efforts of the good hearted. we have a big beautiful country and i won’t succumb to the gaslighting by everyone who screams that this country “must be made great again.” it’s awesome.
That “gathered and cataloged a wealth of evidence of insurrection” was not strong enough for a single person to be charged with insurrection by a single US District Attorney or the Department of Justice.
Elk,
So, if “not a chance” reserving personal crimes committed in office to be determined by the Congress is the standard, you realize a Texas DA or AG could bring a criminal case against Biden and/or Mayorkas for failing to enforce border laws. And maybe even the family of those assassinated Americans by Obama could sue him civilly.
To allow anyone or any jurisdiction who disagrees with a President’s actions while in office to initiate legal matters against a former President will have a chilling effect on Presidents acting decisively with less than perfect information.
Proof of personal crimes… not legitimate POLICY differences. They have to have proof and present it in a court of law. And then any former President has great and plentiful lawyers to defend him. And an appeals process going all the way to the Supreme Court. Frivolous lawsuits would be dealt with.
A President is NOT above the law. The US Supreme Court will remind you of that.
In an illegal act, Donald Trump kept top secret documents and hid them from authorities and then lied about them.
He called the SOS of Georgia and tried to get him to “find” enough votes to win the state.
He gathered a mob on the day electoral votes were counted and sent them to the Capitol to riot. He refused to stop them for hours. And… of course… he wants to pardon them.
This misconduct has been publicly revealed for all to see. I am a Republican and I can see them. You refuse to.
He is a criminal and should be treated as such.
“alleged” criminal
Elk, there are a lot of people who think Biden is a criminal too and by your standard you are ok with former President’s being charged by disparate jurisdictions when out of office for acts done while President.
I think the Supreme Court will see the big picture and generally defer criminal matters to Congress, with some exceptions.
In the document case, the court will say the Presidential Records Act and safeguarding of classified documents needs to be clarified and amiguities removed and defer to Congress to deal with going forward. They will also clarify and remove ambiguities regarding Vice Presidents and not just tolerate “oopsies.”
The call: While definitely inappropriate and unbecoming of a President, we’ll see if making the call is a crime.
The mob: While definitely inappropriate and unbecoming of a President (and disqualifying for my vote in the future, assuming he initiated that “gathering” on January 6th, it isn’t a crime. Whether he encouraged them to riot is a matter of opinion and highly unlikely to be convictable beyond all reasonable doubt. And considering Pelosi rejected DOJ’s offer of additional security, any failure to act to “stop them” is not a crime.
While I will never vote for Trump again, I refuse to make him a martyr by making accusations of criminality on standards that wouldn’t be and never have been applied to anyone else. The presumption of innocence, equal application of the law, and most important not criminalizing really bad personal behavior are too fundamental for all Americans and especially those with whom we disagree politically.
The call: and the determination if it is a crime will be left to Congress. We can’t have ever call a President makes to Governors or other state officials potentially subject to local charges of criminality.
Even Mitch McConnell said that he could be charged after January 6th. That was his reason for NOT convicting Trump.
And oh… there is also the part where the Senate and House… are absolutely incapable of doing it.
If Joe Biden or Hillary Clinton were to have called a swing state SOS and pressured them to “find” enough votes to win that state… Republicans would be going ballistic. Lock him up! Lock her up! Can you hear it?
That phone call is a smoking gun. There is no question in my mind that it was an illegal act.
Yes and I can hear it and it supports my point: It will be easy to find local DA’s who can make a name for themselves to pursue Biden criminally for actions taken as President. His failure to enforce the law on the border and open attempt to thwart a Supreme Court ruling on student loan forgiveness will be easy criminal charges to file and harass him into his grave if the Supreme Court doesn’t rule state and county jurisdictions have no jurisdiction to criminally pursue a former President of actions taken while President.
Just because Congress won’t impeach or can’t convict does not warrant giving every local jurisdiction attorney looking to make a name for themself to pursue former Presidents.
And, Mitch McConnells reasoning is no more persuasive to me than Chuck Schumers.
Finally, on all things you list, Elk, that Trump did regarding the documents, making the call, and on January 6th, I find repugnant and each sufficient for me not to vote for Trump. However, repugnant bad behavior is not by definition illegal (and neither is noble and moral behavior by definition legal).
One more thing: have you ever asked yourself why right now a plurality of Independents prefer Trump over Biden? Might it be because they abhor that all the people who hate Trump for character or policy reasons are willing to suspend any and all standards of fairness to get him?
“have you ever asked yourself why right now a plurality of Independents prefer Trump over Biden?”
Biden is not up to the job. His memory has been faltering for years. He shouldn’t have run again.