“Stephen Miller🚨signaling to ICE and CBP to basically ENACT VIOLENCE ON CITIZENS FREELY.
They DO NOT have immunity.
This is both sickening, and dangerous, and EXACTLY what Miller has wanted his entire life.
This is just pure filthy evil. This is not how the US functions.”
-J Tate
A tweet from the Department of Homeland Security reminds ICE officers of their federal immunity while performing their duties. It states that obstructing or interfering with them is a felony and emphasizes that no individual or official can prevent them from fulfilling their legal obligations.
Earlier today, the Nobel Assembly announced that this year's Prize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi for their work on understanding the human immune system. For
@TheConversationUS, immunologist Aimee Pugh Barnard explains the significance of the three scientists' work on regulatory T cells and immune regulation, which started back in 1995. "Continuing to unlock the secrets of immune regulation can help lead to a future where the immune system can be precisely tuned like a thermostat — whether to turn it down in autoimmunity or rev it up against cancer," Professor Pugh Barnard explains.
“Forgive us, because this council could not save your children.”
“Because Israel is shielded, because it is immune. Immune, not by international law, but by the bias of this international system,” he said.
“Israel kills every day and nothing happens. Israel starves a people and nothing happens. Israel bombs hospitals, schools, shelters and nothing happens. Israel attacks a mediator and steps on diplomacy, and nothing happened.
1/ Palestine_Group #Gaza #UNSC #Israel #immunity #quotes #Algeria
#ClarenceThomas argued that the #SpecialCounsel’s office needs to be established by #Congress & confirmed by the #Senate. He said he tacked on his concurring opinion to the #immunity ruling to “highlight another way in which this prosecution may violate our constitutional structure.”
“If there is no #law establishing the office that the Special Counsel occupies, then he cannot proceed with this prosecution. A private citizen cannot criminally prosecute anyone, let alone a fmr President.”
#SCOTUS is supposed to rule this morning on #Trump’s claim that he is immune from prosecution on charges of trying to overturn the 2020 election.
The decision will determine whether & how special counsel #JackSmith’s case against Trump can proceed — although it’s unlikely a trial would happen before #Election Day. But the ruling could also set an important #precedent for how to prosecute presidents for their actions in office.
“The President of the United States is the most powerful person in the country, & possibly the world. When he uses his official powers in any way, under the majority's reasoning, he now will be insulated from criminal prosecution. Orders the Navy's Seal Team 6 to assassinate a political rival? Immune. Organizes a military coup to hold onto power? Immune. Takes a bribe in exchange for a pardon? Immune. Immune, immune, immune.”
In a footnote to its #immunity decision, #SCOTUS appeared to say that the federal cases against #Trump cannot continue if he returns to the White House.
“In the criminal context … the Justice Department ‘has long recognized’ that ‘the separation of powers precludes the criminal prosecution of a sitting President,’” Chief Justice #JohnRoberts wrote.