Mark Meadows has asked the Supreme Court to recognize his 'just following orders' defense.
Meadows, a former Republican member of Congress, served as Trump's chief of staff in the final year of his White House administration. He was criminally charged alongside Trump in a separate case, brought by the Fulton County District Attorney's Office in Atlanta, over a plot to erase now-President Joe Biden's electoral victory in Georgia.
Meadows asked the Supreme Court to recognize that the president's subordinates should have immunity from criminal prosecution because they were just doing their job by following the president's instructions.
In a series of questions to Trump's lawyer, John Sauer, Justice Gorsuch indicated he believed that subordinates' liability was a helpful deterrent that would thwart presidents from committing crimes.
The indictment specifically alleges that Meadows met with Georgia state and Republican party officials and Trump campaign lawyers while planning to stop the certification of Biden's win.
On one day, Meadows even traveled to Georgia to observe an audit even though the process was closed to the public, according to the indictment. A few days later, he texted an election official offering the assistance of the Trump campaign, the indictment says.
In the US Constitution, the president has no role in certifying electoral votes.
- VitaMan
- 04-28-2024, 11:27 AM
- eccieuser9500
- 04-28-2024, 12:17 PM
Still, the judgments at Nuremberg established the legal precedent for denazification and created a record of evidence so compelling that, when shown to the German public, it dispelled any suggestion that the Nazi regime had been innocent of the accusations leveled against it.
These accomplishments owed to the strict procedures established for the IMT and the Western Allies’ efforts to publicize the trials in Germany. In the 1960s, when a new generation that did not remember the war came of age in West Germany, they questioned the silences surrounding World War II and rediscovered the record of evidence produced for the IMT. Their efforts initiated a public discussion of Germany’s past that led to widespread commemoration and even new war crimes trials for Germans who murdered millions of Jews in Eastern Europe during the war.
https://www.nationalww2museum.org/wa...and-its-legacy
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- VitaMan
- 04-29-2024, 08:46 AM
Cronies trying to find a way out, saying they were only following orders.
- winn dixie
- 04-29-2024, 09:57 AM
Root out ever damn one of em and jail em for life.
- Precious_b
- 05-04-2024, 11:06 PM