A group of retired four-star generals have filed a brief with the Supreme Court, urging justices to agree that Donald Trump is not entitled to immunity from criminal prosecution.

A distinguished group of retired four-star generals and admirals from the U.S. military have argued in a brief filed in the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday that Donald Trump’s claims of absolute “presidential immunity” from criminal prosecution tied to Jan. 6 is an “assault” on the “foundational commitments” underpinning democracy and if his argument is allowed to succeed before them later this month, it threatens “to subvert the careful balance between the executive and legislative branches struck in the Constitution.”

The 38-page amicus brief features 19 authors, all of them decorated retired admirals, generals or secretaries from branches of the U.S. Army, Navy and Air Force respectively. On April 25, the high court is poised to hear Trump’s question of immunity against prosecution for his alleged criminal conspiracy to subvert the results of the 2020 election. and according to the brief, these are arguments that should be approached with extreme caution.

    • AquaTofana@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Or, lol, what’s really happening here, is that we’re all going “Oh yay, they’re using their influence for something good. That’s one more tool to fight the MAGAts with.”

      But I forgot, this is the internet and we should just be straight up pessimistic and ask “Why are they even bothering? Don’t they know it’s useless?!?!Silly Generals, Democracy is dead.”

            • DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe
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              1 year ago

              No. The other liberal nations betrayed the Spanish Republic and Stalin wasn’t interested in supplying the Republican coalition for free (or without purging dissenters to Soviet hegemony) like Hitler and Mussolini were supplying the fascists.

              Personally, I just also don’t tend to criticize people for fighting the war against fascism just because they lost a battle.

              • hamid@lemmy.world
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                1 year ago

                There is no way to win a war. Everyone loses, especially the most vulnerable. You have to stop it before it gets to there. Militarism is inherently evil and designed to project violence. Violence always leads to power vacuum even in the best case. Fascists will have the upper hand to fill the power vacuum. This is what happened in my home country when we overthrew the Shah. Fascists need to be removed before they come to power and before you are fighting a war with them because fascists will always win the war. Look what happened to the US after WW2, they literally became the Nazis in order to win. Then we all lost the cold war. (read: https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691019413/we-all-lost-the-cold-war)

                Lets say the premise here was true and that the US wasn’t already a fascist empire (which it is) and it was a democracy in danger of becoming fascist, unless you deal with the fascists before they emerge either by smothering them out or having a functional society you have no recourse. If people were serious in the US and actually aware, which they aren’t, you would just get rid of your lifetime appointed mullahs supreme court justices and put a bullet in trumps face before it was military action.

                • DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe
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                  1 year ago

                  Ah, yes, simply convince all Americans to be okay with the assassination of Trump without responding with violence themselves, so easy, so simple, definitely won’t create the war you’re on your high horse about avoiding lol

                  Not that I disagree that Trump deserves a death sentence for crimes against democracy and the American people. I just think the war is unavoidable, regardless of who holds the reigns of the Republican Party. But, hey, maybe not.

                  • hamid@lemmy.world
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                    1 year ago

                    It doesn’t matter in America because it is already a one party masquerading as two party fascist state and not a democracy in any meaningful way. You currently live under fascism and the premise here is simply not true. Your military generals won’t help you because they are the agents of fascism. The US empire is going to collapse and millions of people are going to unavoidably die. You have no agency and I am talking to a ghost. Lets be real, you are going to die in the near term.

                    Dead man walking. I’m sorry.

          • hamid@lemmy.world
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            1 year ago

            Chizie ke mano ‘big mad’ mikone ine ke hameye vagheiat-haye Amrikai ro hameye zaman be man goosh midam