In a submitting to the Supreme Courtroom, Particular Counsel Jack Smith argued {that a} keep needs to be denied and that Trump’s immunity declare is a risk to democracy.
Smith wrote:
The conduct alleged within the Indictment, if proved at trial, represents a concerted effort to violate the Structure’s Time period-in-Workplace Clause, see U.S. Const. Artwork. II, § 1, Cl. 1 (elected President “shall hold his Office during the Term of four Years”), and the President’s responsibility to “take Care that
the Laws be faithfully executed,” id., § 3.
The proposition {that a} former President is immune from federal felony legal responsibility for conduct that might overturn his electoral defeat contravenes bedrock constitutional rules and threatens democracy itself.
Applicant by no means acknowledges the constitutional value of insulating a former President from felony accountability for that conduct.
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Trump’s declare if the Supreme Courtroom dominated in favor of it might imply that any incumbent president who misplaced an election might determine to not depart with no penalties. If a president wished to rig an election, below Trump’s declare of immunity, they might achieve this with no penalties.
Giving a former president limitless immunity would destroy the protection web that protects American democracy.
Trump’s immunity declare is a hazard to the rules that the nation was based on.
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