Republicans may soon regret having successfully peddled the legal argument that a sitting president — say, Bill Clinton — can be sued while serving in office.
Unless ultimately overturned by this ultraconservative Supreme Court in the same hypocritical fashion with which its predecessor installed George W. Bush in the White House, a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia ruled today that "Donald Trump can be sued over claims that he incited violence on Jan. 6, 2021," reports Politico.
The list of potential plaintiffs with legal standing would be of considerable length, beginning with the families of five dead Capitol Policemen. Others injured would also have the right to sue the prime pusher of insurrectionism.
If reelected, Trump could be slammed with dozens of civil suits, each one of which could cost him millions of dollars. All told, the judgments could run into real money, i.e., even for a man who (just barely) rates as a billionaire.
Even better, an avalanche of justifiable legal vengeance might distract the already incompetent over-coifed buffoon from setting in motion the entirety of his multiplicitous designs for a virtual dictatorship.
But the plaintiffs might want to avoid, if at all possible, suing the scofflaw in a federal court. Because one of Trump's designs is his personal proprietorship of the U.S. Department of Justice, which would thwart every attempt at legal redress while also abolishing all departmental integrity.
Would they also be able to sue the Congressmen, or others, who aided and abetted Trump in this enterprize?
Posted by: Scott Jessee | December 01, 2023 at 08:41 PM
Scott, I'd think a good lawyer would sue half the Republican Party.
Posted by: P.M. | December 01, 2023 at 09:33 PM
Imagine the scope and scale of a class action suit brought in the name of all the 81,282,916 people who voted for Biden.
Posted by: GWN | December 02, 2023 at 07:42 AM