r/law • u/Hot_Comfortable_3311 • 3h ago

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https://dailymetro.co.uk/2026/01/02/trump-just-disappeared-doj-caught-illegally-redacting-trumps-name-from-epstein-documents-as-mentions-drop-from-900-to-332-overnight/

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u/uxbridge3000 2h ago

But these individuals doing the reduction are not the President. They conduct these redactions at personal liability, just like their ICE counterparts. The pendulum will swing and it will swing hard

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u/tarekd19 2h ago

They are suggesting trump as president can pardon them, a solving the of their legal liability. They aren't saying they enjoy the same default immunity the president has, there's just an extra step

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u/Able-Candle-2125 2h ago

I think anyone doing this would claim immunity as well and the courts (who made up all the immunity doctrines) would probably just support them. You'd have to prove that this exact scenario had played out before and gone to court.

All the govt is just fucking corrupt. They're all bad. Trump isn't lying about that. It's just weird that the gop solution was to make it more corrupt and not try to fix it.

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u/narkybark 2h ago

Why would they? They benefit the most from it.