• Madison420@lemmy.world
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    2 years ago

    Impeachment is by definition civil. If I can shoot you in the face and get immunity then I can certainly lie to Congress. They’re pretty literally saying it’s absolute immunity.

    “High crimes and misdemeanors” the president is immune to them all now. Criminal, civil, administrative, doesn’t matter with absolute immunity comes absolute power.

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        2 years ago

        It’s civil the clause even specifically refers to civil officers, it’s a civil process like every other process don’t by the government. There is no such thing as a political process.

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            It doesn’t need to be in a court to be a civil matter it just needs to be codified in law and not criminal. I’d say you need to take your own advice.

            There’s simply not, there’s administrative process but literally zero “political process” exists in law in the United States. None.