Former President Donald Trump's previous senior advisor, Stephen Miller, is not happy about Judge Chutkan's recent immunity ruling.
Chutkan, tasked with overseeing the criminal prosecution of Trump for alleged election subversion in the lead-up to the Capitol riot on Jan. 6, 2021, ruled on Friday that the former president is not immune from criminal charges just because he was president when the purported conduct occurred.
That decision didn't sit well with Miller, who took to social media to vent about the consequences.
"Many likely don’t appreciate just how radical and dangerous it is to revoke the doctrine of presidential immunity. In effect, this gives any single far-left judge, jury or prosecutor a veto over the actions of the democratically-elected president," Miller wrote. "It means a Letitia James or a James Comey alone decides what a president can or cannot do in the fulfillment of his duties. The fact that such a persecution may initiate after a president has left office is irrelevant: future presidents will now exercise their office within the narrow confines of this anti-constitutional anti-democratic framework."
Miller continues:
"A President is the embodiment of the state and the voter. So when he becomes liable for his exercise of speech as president it is, in fact, the whole American people who have been robbed of their sovereign authority — authority transferred yet again to the unelected, unreformed and unaccountable. Conservatives not speaking out against these travesties are clearly uninterested in conserving this Republic."
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In a follow-up post, Miller said that, if presidential immunity "only applies to acts Democrat partisans unanimously agree are legitimate presidential activities, then by definition there is no immunity for Republican officeholders—they serve at the pleasure of the leftmost prosecutor in the country at any given time."
"Put another way: if just one extreme partisan can dissolve the immunity then the immunity is already dissolved. It is the legal and intellectual equivalent of when Democrats say they believe in the First Amendment except for misinformation, disinformation and “hate speech” (see: Mackey)," he added. "Your rights extend only to the edge of the left’s permission. So in a perfect closed loop of illogic, Democrats are free to break election law but Republicans will go to jail for exposing it or seeking appropriate legal redress."
