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Apr 25, 2024 · Sauer pointed back to a U.S. Supreme Court ruling from the '80s that held a president is immune from civil liability related to this official acts, which Sauer said is a basis for their own ...
Apr 25, 2024 · Beyond Sotomayor asking about a potential assassination using the military, Justice Elana Kagan asked how immunity would apply if a president ordered soldiers “to stage a coup.” Sauer said in that potential case, it “may well be an official act” that would require impeachment and conviction before he is prosecuted.
Apr 25, 2024 · Most conspicuous of these was the distinction Sauer drew between “official acts” and “private acts.”. This will, of course, prevent the case from coming to trial before the November ...
Apr 26, 2024 · The incentive for an incumbent to execute a coup is simply much greater if the Supreme Court decides that the incumbent cannot be held accountable if he fails. And not just a coup, but any kind of ...
May 6, 2024 · Leonardopoulos–Gargalidis coup d'état attempt in Greece: Pro-royalist military officers attempted to stage a coup, and successfully took control of much of the Greek mainland. However, the government rallied its forces, and leaders Georgios Leonardopoulos and Panagiotis Gargalidis were ultimately surrounded and forced to surrender.
Apr 25, 2024 · WASHINGTON — An order from a president to the military to conduct a coup to remain in office “might well be an official act,” Donald Trump ’s lawyer told the Supreme Court in oral arguments Thursday on the question of whether Trump’s attempted coup is immune from prosecution. Trump’s claims that his actions leading up to the violent ...
May 5, 2024 · The U.S. staged invasions and incursions of US troops in 1903 (supporting a coup by Manuel Bonilla), 1907 (supporting Bonilla against a Nicaraguan-backed coup), 1911 and 1912 (defending the regime of Miguel R. Davila from an uprising), 1919 (peacekeeping during a civil war, and installing the caretaker government of Francisco Bográn), 1920 ...
