Posted on Dec 21, 2023
Trump ramps up plans for new police powers — except the ones investigating him: analyst
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Former President Donald Trump has an "absurd" new plan to expand the rights of American police, even as he rages against those investigating him, legal experts told The New York Times Thursday.
Trump's new proposal would "indemnify" on-duty police officers, essentially shielding them from misconduct lawsuits, despite already high immunity standards that make legal cases against officers hard to win, Michael Gold reported.
Legal experts told Gold the proposal doesn't make much sense.
“The idea that officers need indemnification is frankly absurd, because they already have it,” said Benjamin Cardozo Law School professor Alexander Reinert.
“Officers virtually never pay anything in settlements or judgments entered against them,” said UCLA Law professor Joanna Schwartz, noting police departments and insurance companies usually make payouts, not the officers.
That didn't stop Trump from saying in a recent speech, “We are going to indemnify them, so they don’t lose their wife, their family, their pension and their job."
Nor did his professed support of law enforcement stop Trump from "raging" against federal and state law enforcement officials leading the four criminal cases against him, Gold notes.
Trump's new proposal would "indemnify" on-duty police officers, essentially shielding them from misconduct lawsuits, despite already high immunity standards that make legal cases against officers hard to win, Michael Gold reported.
Legal experts told Gold the proposal doesn't make much sense.
“The idea that officers need indemnification is frankly absurd, because they already have it,” said Benjamin Cardozo Law School professor Alexander Reinert.
“Officers virtually never pay anything in settlements or judgments entered against them,” said UCLA Law professor Joanna Schwartz, noting police departments and insurance companies usually make payouts, not the officers.
That didn't stop Trump from saying in a recent speech, “We are going to indemnify them, so they don’t lose their wife, their family, their pension and their job."
Nor did his professed support of law enforcement stop Trump from "raging" against federal and state law enforcement officials leading the four criminal cases against him, Gold notes.
Trump ramps up plans for new police powers — except the ones investigating him: analyst
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PO1 William "Chip" Nagel
Lt Col John (Jack) Christensen Makes Perfect Sense that a Nazi wants a Police State as Long as He Gets to Decide what the Law is
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Nope. He's a traitor-turd.
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Democrat oligarchs are preventing the electorate from having opponents to the “selected “ Democrat nominee for President.. Hillary Clinton was selected and Bernie Sanders was screwed. Florida and several other states only have one candidate on the Ballot, Joe Biden screwing others seeking the position and their supports seeking a different candidate. Now the Democrats are trying to prevent Republicans from having their candidate of choice. Before Trump was inaugurated Democrats declared war seeking to impeach Trump. The whole Russian collusion BS was a set up, and any one that can’t see that is more Blind than Stevie Wonder because they refuse to see!.
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MSG Stan Hutchison
Anyone that actually reads the Mueller Report knows that the investigation was not BS. Yes, the so-called Steele dossier is questionable, but Mueller laid out a lot of very damning information. His final conclusion stated while there was insufficient evidence to couclude Trump conspired with the Russians, nor was there sufficient evidence to exonerate him.
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LTC David Brown
There was a set up of Popadopoulos and Carter Page. Steele pedaled the dossier to Corn and another reporter. Those stories by Corn etc were used to justify FISA warrants. Mueller was in severe cognitive incline and didn’t have a clue.
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Hahahahaha...no, wait...you're serious?
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I believe most police departments have sufficient indemnity and more than enough power. How about better training?
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