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sop

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3. "Law enforcement operation"?

Reply to bucolic_frolic (Reply #2)

Sun Jan 4, 2026, 09:16 AM

Jan 4

What laws were broken? The Venezuelan constitution grants the president and other elected officials immunity for criminal prosecution for their official acts. It's called "Inmunidad Presidencial" and "Inmunidad Parlamentaria."

As Mitt Romney once said, "What's sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander."

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Someone joked on BlueSky that Trump hadn't even taken the proper constitutional steps to lie the country into war. sop Jan 4 #1

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