Immunity with Impunity

By Martin H. Levinson

Some people question why Donald Trump has sweeping immunity and broad protections in the federal election subversion case being brought against him. The answer to these people is learn some law, which I have done and will now spell out.

In 1982, the Supreme Court ruled in the case of Nixon v. Fitzgerald that a president is entitled to absolute immunity from liability predicated on his official acts. That means if a president is doing official stuff, which by virtue of his being president is ipso facto everything he does, he can do whatever he wants to do. Presidents are about officiating and officiating means making judgment calls like umpires do in determining balls and strikes. Umps have broad protections from fans who might want to beat the living daylights out of them for making what they think are wrong decisions. Shouldn’t presidents get the same consideration from prosecutors who want to put them in the pokey for making what they perceive are flawed choices?

The Court also found the President’s absolute immunity extends to all acts within the “outer perimeter” of his duties in office. The “outer perimeter” argument is Trump’s stay-out-of-jail card. If a president tried to subvert an election from the “inner perimeter” of where his official duties are supposed to be conducted, he would be legally liable. But that’s not what happened in this case, which can be easily ascertained by taking a tape measure and protractor to the White House and gauging where Trump was when he issued his directives. Doing this would reveal that the Trumpster was almost never in the Oval Office, but rather in his bedroom watching Fox and Friends and Russian TV, tweeting to his billions of followers, and issuing presidential edicts. In terms of perimeters, his bedroom was far from the Oval—the inner perimeter of the Residence. It was way over on the southwest side on the second floor—the outer perimeter of the Residence.

If presidents were held legally accountable for their actions, no one would take the job given that we live in the most litigious country on Earth where suing is as natural as taking a dump in the woods, but somewhat less sanitary. Do we want people crapping on our presidents? Do we want busybody lawyers heaping garbage on them? I don’t think so and I’m pretty sure you don’t either. Granting presidents absolute immunity from legal prosecution liberates them from constantly having to worry about prosecutors who may want to embarrass them or shove them in the pen for just doing what he, or she, or they, or any other cockamamie self-identifier, thinks should be done.

This is a free country where people ought to be able to perform their work without having legal beagles up in their face, barking at them and hauling them into court. Government attorneys should mind their own beeswax and not be buttinskies because they think it’s cool to hassle presidents who actively endeavor to change the results of an election where they are declared the loser. When Trump urged the secretary of state of Georgia to find him votes in the Goober State he did it for the simple reason that democracy and the rule of law can’t compare to the importance of keeping America strong and prosperous, like it was during the Trump era when, because of Trump’s policies, the  economy grew by over 5000 percent, the best it had been in the 400-year life of our country. And let’s not forget Trump brought peace to the Middle East, ended the war in Ukraine, and built a 3,000-miile, 100-foot wall on the Southern border that Mexico paid for. Sadly, those three events have been reversed by Commissar-in-Chief Joe Biden.

It’s un-American to level felony charges that no president should have to deal with because if you are on the outer perimeter of the Oval Office, officiating, and doing your damnedest to keep America the greatest country on God’s great green Earth you are good to go and good to do whatever the hell you think will be in the best interests of the nation. Just like President Trump did!

Martin H. Levinson
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Cell Block D
Midwest Federal Detention Center