Nothing would happen, because SCOTUS decided to grant the president immunity for any crime committed in their official function, which would be the case here. It would literally be possible for the president to order congress killed, offer an automatic pardon to anyone carrying out this order, and establish a monarchy.

This single ruling will haunt the United States for the rest of its existence.

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mandeepj 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

>SCOTUS decided to grant the president immunity for any crime committed in their official function

That ruling is very broad and vague! I don't think killing Congress is part of POTUS's official job description.

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/trump-isnt-immune-from...

	▲	solid_fuel 39 minutes ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Neither is fomenting a coup. And yet...
	▲	edmundsauto 2 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Isn’t the definition of official duties vague and left to the courts?

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kakacik 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

It will be interesting to watch what comes next, if there will be next. But people die of natural causes and otherwise anyway.

Will it be the same a-lot-of-empty-talk-from-democrats like after first trump's term, or actually some concrete action? Clearly if next president would be democrat he can do some nice revenge and rebalance, maybe petty but maybe necessary. I would expect republicans do the usual crappy move of sticking with theirs regardless of crimes committed, any actual morals are an afterthought.

Its so weird to watch from outside, illogical, deeply flawed, unfair, and pretty weak system when it comes to handling unscrupulous sociopaths.

All bad is good for some things in hindsight, world desperately needs more decoupling from US. Petrodollars, swift and so on. Compared to this, judging by pure actions, chinese may seem saint in comparison

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hattmall an hour ago | parent [-]

The Democrats literally tried like 6 different ways to get Trump in jail, and arrested and jailed many of his supporters and even some of his administration. I highly doubt that the majority of the voting public which elected Trump will sit idle for any sort of unjust retribution to the current administration.

	▲	solid_fuel 28 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		> sit idle for any sort of unjust retribution This is genuinely hilarious. I guess you haven't been paying attention but "sitting idle during injustice" is all that Trump supporters do. No, his base is already collapsing. He overextended with Iran, sent gas prices up, and as a direct result has finally started to bleed support from the know-nothings. I doubt Trump himself will ever face justice for his many crimes - he is likely to die of old age first - but the rest of the administration? Knives are out. They'll be back in prison just like happened in 2020 and 2021, and all those "dedicated supporters" will do nothing because the people who form this administration are petty, uninteresting people who were specifically chosen because they are not popular.