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Does This Count? Trump v. United States and the Role of the Vice President on January 6th

Decent paper by Andrew Martin Fay in Albany Law Review.

ABSTRACT:

>The Supreme Court’s decision in Trump v. United States drastically changed the landscape of presidential powers, all but creating a new level of presidential immunity for criminal offenses, so long as the actions giving rise to those criminal offenses are within the core official acts of that President. At the time, the Biden Administration’s Justice Department was prosecuting then-former President Trump for his actions seeking to encourage his Vice President to overthrow the lawful 2020 election results on January 6, 2021. The Court adopted this new official acts doctrine, but did not exactly describe the standard of review for it, nor did the Court apply this new doctrine to President Trump’s January 6 case. In the wake of Trump v. United States, Trump’s subsequent re-election, and the lack of prosecution thereafter, the intersection of the new official acts doctrine and the Vice President’s role at the January 6 ceremony remains unclear. This Note argues that any relevant interactions between a President and Vice President wherein the President seeks to pressure the Vice President to overthrow the results of a lawful election would more likely than not be outside the scope of a President’s core official acts, thereby not qualifying for the presumptive immunity described by the Court in Trump v. United States.

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u/HeartlessLib — 1 day ago
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DOJ Official Told GOP Ally That Big Payouts Were Coming For Jan 6th Defendants

Months before the $1.8 billion “anti-weaponization” fund was announced, Ed Martin predicted Capitol rioters would get millions, even if it took until 2028, two people told NBC News.

May 19, 2026, 4:43 PM CDT By Ryan J. Reilly

Earlier this year, not long after Trump administration official Ed Martin was stripped of his role as head of the Justice Department’s “weaponization” working group that targeted the president’s political foes, he sat down for breakfast at an upscale spot near the White House.

Inside the Peacock Lounge at the Willard InterContinental in Washington D.C., Martin dined with Republican operative Norm Coleman.

The two touched on the upcoming 2026 midterm elections, D.C. federal grand juries and former special counsel Jack Smith, according to two people with direct knowledge of their conversation.

Martin also predicted the Justice Department would dole out millions of dollars to those charged, and then later pardoned, in the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol, the people said. Even if it took until the end of President Donald Trump’s term.

Martin estimated it would be something like $40 million, the people said.

The pot ended up much, much larger.

This week, the Justice Department announced a $1.776 billion fund using taxpayer dollars to provide payouts for those “who suffered weaponization and lawfare” at the hands of the government. The money comes as part of a settlement with President Donald Trump, who sued the executive branch that he oversees — an unprecedented legal move, experts said.

Trump, his sons and the Trump Organization filed a $10 billion lawsuit against the Internal Revenue Service over the leak of his tax returns, and he made other claims of damages in connection with a 2022 search of his Florida home and the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election.

As part of the agreement to drop the claims, the fund was born.

Much more at link:

DOJ official told GOP ally that big payouts were coming for Jan. 6 defendants

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Laid out pretty clear, is it not? Trump's own DOJ 'cutting a deal' for trump and the insurrectionists. This is corruption at its finest and right 'in our faces'. Is this what trump supporters voted for? This is simply disgusting and crooked as hell. Can trump do anything that his cult-like supporters will not support? Your thoughts?

u/ChasKy53 — 2 days ago