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  1. 5 hours ago, Commissar SFLUFAN said:

    As he considers immunity in a case centered on a president's refusal to accept his electoral defeat, Justice Samuel Alito suggested that not giving presidents immunity will actually discourage peaceful transfers of power.

     

    Alito pressed Michael Dreeben, the attorney for the special counsel, on the idea that an outgoing president who looses a hotly-contested election will be disincentivized from leaving office peacefully because he will fear prosecution by the administration of his successor, a "bitter political opponent."

     

    Would that not "lead us into a cycle that destabilizes the functioning of our country as a democracy?" Alito asked.

     

    If a President is granted Supreme Leader powers:

     

    A. A loser is encouraged to attempt a coup before he goes, because there is no downside to it (no worse than conceding normally), so might as well try.

    B. He may attempt to retire peacefully, but the new President can now do a lot worse than prosecute him. Will he get the dogs or the anti-aircraft gun?

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