…so. If he’s going to court, he’s getting a lawyer right? And that lawyer is gonna say, “My client is not a citizen of the United States, you can’t prosecute him” or something to that effect. And if he doesn’t get a lawyer… uh. I dunno. This doesn’t seem very thought out.
Not that I’m expecting this admin to follow the rule of law, or that somehow some legal technicality is gonna fix this. Just. That. They’re not exactly doing themselves any favors in that department. If the Dems were a serious opposition party willing to set the president of presidents facing consequenses, they could very easily spin an impeachment out of this.
It depends on if he’s gonna get granted diplomatic immunity or not, and even then it’s not like the feds have been very serious about trials lately. According to the constitution, everyone under US jurisdiction has constitutional rights like right to public defense and a trial by jury. By definition everyone in US soil except foreign diplomats and enemy combatants are within US jurisdiction, thus they’re supposed to have constitutional rights. But given how this current (and past) admin are kinda loose with what kind of trials they give foreign citizens on US soil, I’m not holding my breath. And I don’t really know what kind of precedent there is for prosecution in regards to foreign heads of state given criminal trials on US soil. It’s only happened like what, twice?
Actually now that I type all that out I have to wonder if all the ICE raids and deportations were like trial runs of how to prosecute foreign citizens without all that pesky litigation.
They try extradited narcos all the time. Us citizen or not us citizen, if you “bring drugs into the US” (biiiiig airquotes), you can be summarily rendered to the US and tried for us crimes.
…so. If he’s going to court, he’s getting a lawyer right? And that lawyer is gonna say, “My client is not a citizen of the United States, you can’t prosecute him” or something to that effect. And if he doesn’t get a lawyer… uh. I dunno. This doesn’t seem very thought out.
Not that I’m expecting this admin to follow the rule of law, or that somehow some legal technicality is gonna fix this. Just. That. They’re not exactly doing themselves any favors in that department. If the Dems were a serious opposition party willing to set the president of presidents facing consequenses, they could very easily spin an impeachment out of this.
It looks like a you confess or your wife commits suicide situation. Why else would they arrest the wife too.
It depends on if he’s gonna get granted diplomatic immunity or not, and even then it’s not like the feds have been very serious about trials lately. According to the constitution, everyone under US jurisdiction has constitutional rights like right to public defense and a trial by jury. By definition everyone in US soil except foreign diplomats and enemy combatants are within US jurisdiction, thus they’re supposed to have constitutional rights. But given how this current (and past) admin are kinda loose with what kind of trials they give foreign citizens on US soil, I’m not holding my breath. And I don’t really know what kind of precedent there is for prosecution in regards to foreign heads of state given criminal trials on US soil. It’s only happened like what, twice?
Actually now that I type all that out I have to wonder if all the ICE raids and deportations were like trial runs of how to prosecute foreign citizens without all that pesky litigation.
Also habeas corpus and public defense have been a sham for at least 10 years. Shadow courts are well documented for terrorism and drug trafficking.
They try extradited narcos all the time. Us citizen or not us citizen, if you “bring drugs into the US” (biiiiig airquotes), you can be summarily rendered to the US and tried for us crimes.