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ScratchCat

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9. What we need is

Reply to Ohioboy (Original post)

Mon Dec 23, 2024, 01:10 PM

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A court ruling or a Federal statute that a sitting POTUS can't file or participate in personal lawsuits against private entities while POTUS and the reasoning can be the same used in every other argument about a POTUS and legal proceedings. It would legally make sense as well. Frankly, for the Republican originalists out there, I doubt the Founders intended on a POTUS being able to sue the media.

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